A media report in 2015 said "Verve is issued by 40 banks in Africa with more than 30 million payment tokens in circulation."[12] In October same year, Verve launched its entry into the East African payment market with strategic partnership with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) "to expand Verve Card acceptance and payment services in six key East African markets", namely: Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, South Sudan, Rwanda and Uganda.[13][14][15]