By making african payments as simple as making a phonecall, We make borders matter less.
Onafriq is a pan-African payments company which enables interoperable cross-border and domestic digital payments. We boast a multi-cultural, multi-talented, agile team from over 30 different nations that is driven to create access to a borderless world - for millions of Africans and African businesses.
It's no secret that mobile money has revolutionised access to certain financial services in Africa and much of the rest of the world. Onafriq has been driving the next step in this revolution since its founding - to bring more possibilities, more connections, more interoperability by connecting mobile money user to each other, bank accounts, MTOs, enterprises and a world of new possibilities.
We have been at the forefront of increasing digital flows not only within Africa but also flows to Africa.
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A fully integrated on and offline payments “network of networks”
Onafriq brings together a full suite of payment options and a vast last-mile network, enabling access and simplicity for a range of partners. MNOs, MTO, banks, global and local merchants, African SMEs, and global development organisations can collect and disburse payments, access our card issuance and processing services, and access Nigerian consumers and SMEs through our agent network, Baxi.
With access to multiple FX sourcing partners across the continent, Onafriq can provide multiple currencies across Africa for our partners.
Our Investors
Our Leaders
Adegbola Abudu
Managing Director, Anglophone West Africa
Zamandlovu Ndlovu
Head of Corporate Communications and Marketing
Jane Robinson
Chief Product Officer, Network
Oladapo Richards
Chief Product Officer, Agency services
Richard Hadley
Strategy & Sales Support Director
Nika Naghavi
Group Head of Growth
Sharon Welang
Managing Director - Francophone sub-Saharan Africa
Fulgence Stolk
Managing Director - Rest of the World
Funmi Dele-Giwa
General Counsel & Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Group Company Secretary
Olaseni Alabede
Chief Product Officer, Card Issuing
Dare Okoudjou
Founder & CEO
Luke Kyohere
Chief Innovation Officer
Omotayo Ogunlade
Chief Technology Officer - Baxi
Rashi Gupta
Group Chief Operating Officer
Christian Bwakira
Group Chief Commercial Officer
Meghan Taylor
Group Chief of Staff
Julian Adkins
Group Chief Financial Officer
Patrick Gutmann
Managing Director, Group Corporate Affairs and Institutional Engagements
Filip Nilsson
Group Head of Enterprise Payment
Rachel Balsham
Managing Director, Southern and East Africa
This is Onafriq
We unlock access, scaling up your business beyond borders. Because where there’s access, there’s growth.
#AccessGrowth
GOVERNANCE AND COMPLIANCE
At Onafriq, we have a compliance culture driven and supported by the board, which is cascaded in terms of what we do as a business. The board has a zero tolerance for non-compliance and supports the compliance department fully in the execution of its duties.
As a business, we take a proactive approach to compliance by scanning the environment for emerging trends in the payment space and how this may affect our partners, and Onafriq as an organisation. With this approach, we can effectively address any emerging risks within the confines of local and international law and best practice.
Identifying inefficiencies ahead of time is something we take pride in. We have a culture of regular audits that help identify shortcomings within our policies or processes and we take corrective action immediately. This is a key aspect of ensuring that our compliance processes are evolved and effective.
LICENSES
Recent changes in payment regulation across the African continent have made it mandatory for entities operating payment systems to obtain a license from the relevant regulatory body. We have been pro-active in our engagements with regulators across the jurisdictions where we operate, and are currently licenced in Mauritius, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania – as well as in the United Kingdom.
