Department 03 · Fintech

Financial access for people the system overlooks

We build payments, lending and banking infrastructure that reaches customers and small businesses traditional finance struggles to serve.

4.6mActive customer wallets
$310mDisbursed in credit
11Markets live
Overview

Building the rails, not just the app

Most people and small businesses across our markets are still outside the formal banking system, not by choice but because the infrastructure was never built for them. Our Fintech department builds that infrastructure directly — payment rails, credit scoring models and compliance tooling that make it possible to serve customers profitably at small transaction sizes.

We work directly with consumers and merchants, and license our infrastructure to banks and other fintechs who want to reach the same customers.

340Engineers, risk and compliance staff
3Central bank licences held
92%Loan repayment rate
2015Department founded
What we do

Six areas of work

Infrastructure and products for consumers, merchants and financial institutions.

01

Digital payments

Mobile money, wallets and merchant payment collection built for low-connectivity environments.

02

Lending & credit

Consumer and merchant credit scored using transaction data rather than traditional collateral.

03

Micro-insurance

Low-premium health, crop and asset cover distributed through our payments network.

04

Banking-as-a-service

Licensed infrastructure that lets other businesses embed accounts and payments into their own products.

05

Financial inclusion programmes

Partnerships with cooperatives and community groups to bring first-time users into digital finance.

06

Regulatory & compliance technology

Know-your-customer, fraud monitoring and reporting tools built to each market's regulatory standard.

Our approach

How we build trust

Licensed, not informal

We operate under central bank licences in every market we serve, rather than grey-area arrangements.

Priced for small transactions

Our infrastructure is built to stay profitable at the transaction sizes our customers actually use.

Data used responsibly

Credit and risk models are built with clear consent and audited regularly for fairness.

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