🇿🇦Banking & Open Banking in South Africa

2 banking & open banking providers in South Africa, publishing 8 APIs.

2 providers 8 published APIs 8 indexed documents
Thin cohort — 2 providers, below the 5-provider floor. This page publishes its roster and deliberately generates no statistics about it. A distribution over 2 providers is not a small characterisation of banking & open banking in South Africa — it is a wrong one. Read the number as a statement about what the catalog has profiled, not about the market: South Africa holds 23 providers overall and Banking & Open Banking holds 872. If a company belongs here and is missing, add it.

Banking & Open Banking in South Africa — 2 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 8 indexed APIs.

This cell is below the 5-provider floor, so it carries no generated statistics. A distribution over 2 providers is not a small characterisation of banking & open banking in South Africa, it is a wrong one. What follows is the roster and nothing more. The gap is a statement about catalog coverage rather than about the market: South Africa holds 23 providers in total and Banking & Open Banking holds 872, so the intersection being this small is worth reading as a queue of organisations not yet profiled.

Country membership reads a tag, a stated headquarters or a stated nationality. A provider lands in South Africa when one of its own top-level tags names the country, when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities, or when it describes itself by nationality (“a French company”; roadmap#542, #719). Region words (“Latin American”), language uses (“French-speaking”) and a city named outside a headquarters statement are not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.

Providers (2)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Stitch Stitch is an open banking and payments API platform providing unified access to financial data and payment rails across banks and financial institutions in Africa, primarily Sou... 8 thin
Jumo JUMO is a Cape Town-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, founded in 2015, that uses artificial intelligence to power digital credit and savings products for banks, mobile... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (8)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 8 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 8 documents.

Stitch Pay By Bank

Stitch Pay By Bank enables merchants to accept instant bank transfer payments directly from customers' bank accounts in South Africa and ...

Stitch Capitec Pay

Stitch integration with Capitec Bank's Capitec Pay payment method, enabling customers to pay via Capitec mobile banking.

Stitch Card Payments

Stitch card payment processing enabling businesses to accept debit and credit card payments through the Stitch unified platform.

Stitch DebiCheck

Stitch DebiCheck integration providing authenticated debit orders for recurring payment collection in South Africa.

Stitch Manual EFT

Stitch Manual EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) enabling customers to pay via standard bank EFT with Stitch's streamlined reference managem...

Stitch Disbursements

Stitch Disbursements (Payouts) API enabling businesses to programmatically send funds to bank accounts, enabling mass payments, refunds, ...

Stitch Authentication API

OAuth 2.0 token operations.

Stitch Payments API

Payment initiation and management.

Other industries in South Africa

Payments & Money Movement 13 Financial Technology 11 Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 3 E-Commerce Platform 3 Artificial Intelligence 2 Cybersecurity & Identity 2 Education & EdTech 2 Financial Services 2 Home & Field Services 2 Human Resources & Payroll 2 Investing & Venture Capital 2 Telecommunications & Connectivity 2 All of South Africa →

Banking & Open Banking elsewhere

North America 172 Europe 155 United Kingdom & Ireland 88 Australia & New Zealand 66 Latin America 46 India & South Asia 31 Africa 23 France & Iberia 21 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 16 Middle East 16 Southeast Asia 11 Nordics 8 All of Banking & Open Banking →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: South Africa and Banking & Open Banking. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. South Africa membership is matched on tag, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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