KATHMANDU, April 15: Esewa in partnership with Smith and Smith, has announced an offer where customers can send money from Romania through Smith and  Smith to a bank account, eSewa Wallet, or cash remittance and get chance to receive Rs 10,000 every week, and Rs 100,000 as a bumper reward.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Esewa Money Transfer, one of Nepal's leading digital remittance companies, has announced continuing its initiative “Mero Digital Desh”.

KATHMANDU, April 20: MoneyGram International, a cross-border P2P payments and money transfers firm, announced a partnership with F1soft Group’s subsidiary, eSewa Money Transfer Pvt Ltd on Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: Jagadamba Motors, an authorized distributor of TVS Motor, and eSewa signed an agreement to provide their customers with an opportunity to win TVS Apache 2V on Dashain offer purchase through eSewa.

eSewa has suffered a massive data breach, exposing email addresses, phone numbers and passwords and other details of an undetermined number of its users.

KATHMANDU, June 26: It has been revealed that government authorities have tried to exonerate Esewa – a digital wallet company – from the charge of carrying out the business of banned crypto currency ‘bitcoin’ in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, April 7: It has been learnt that Prime Minister's Information Technology Consultant Asgar Ali has been promoting his private company -- eSewa -- by stopping the operation of a payment gateway system purchased earlier by the government for Rs 250 million.

As eSewa has over 2.1 million customers who park their billions of rupees in the digital wallet, its founder and owner's alleged involvement in unethical 'hacking' of the news website has many people worried about their sensitive data and cash parked in the platform.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: Honorary Information Technology (IT) consultant to Prime Minister KP Oli, Asgar Ali, who is also the chief executive officer (CEO) of eSewa Fonepay Private Limited, has been found to be grossly misusing his position to secure major IT contracts at different government bodies without a competitive bidding process.

KATHMANDU, May 29: Nepal national cricket team’s vice-captain Gyanendra Malla has been appointed as brand ambassador of eSewa, an online payment service provider. The one-year agreement was signed by president of F1 Soft International (promoter of eSewa) Bishwas Dhakal and cricketer Malla in Kathmandu on Monday.

KATHMANDU, May 13: The online payment portal eSewa has extended its service to pay drinking water bill in Surkhet via the e-wallet.