Financial Services in Africa

29 financial services providers across Africa, publishing 20 APIs.

29 providers 20 published APIs 47 indexed documents

Financial Services across Africa — 29 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 20 indexed APIs.

8 of the 29 publish at least one machine-readable API; 21 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 16 minimal, 9 emerging, 2 thin, 1 strong, and 1 developing.

Leading by rating: Klasha, Djamo, AZA Finance, Cowrywise, 8B Education Investments, Earnipay, and 23 more.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (29)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Klasha Klasha is a cross-border payments company for emerging markets that lets international businesses sell into Africa and accept payments online in local African currencies. The Kl... 5 strong
Djamo Djamo is a mobile-first fintech serving Côte d'Ivoire and Sénégal, giving 1.5M+ users current and savings accounts with an IBAN, virtual and physical Visa cards, money transfers... 1 developing
AZA Finance AZA Finance is a regulated financial-infrastructure provider delivering foreign exchange (FX), collections, treasury and cross-border payout services across Africa and between A... 1 thin
Cowrywise Cowrywise is a Nigerian wealth management platform and SEC-licensed fund manager offering savings plans, investment portfolios, dollar accounts, and financial goal tracking for ... 1 thin
8B Education Investments 8B Education Investments (legally 8B Finance, Inc., trading as 8B) is a New York headquartered education-finance company founded in 2017 by Lydiah Kemunto Bosire that helps Afri... 1 emerging
Earnipay Earnipay is a Nigerian fintech that operates an NRS/FIRS-compliant e-invoicing platform for businesses. As an accredited Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) and NITDA systems integrat... 1 emerging
MFellows Money Fellows (moneyfellows.com) is an Egyptian fintech that digitizes the traditional rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA, or "gam'eya") into app-based "money circle... 0 emerging
Kredete Kredete is an intelligent global finance app for diaspora and emerging-market communities, founded in 2022 and operating across four continents. It moves money across 60+ market... 0 emerging
Julaya Julaya is a West African B2B fintech, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, that digitizes corporate financial operations across the UEMOA zone (Cote d'Iv... 1 emerging
Precium Precium is a South African fintech that provides local payment infrastructure for global merchants expanding into Africa. Its enterprise-grade platform handles payment processin... 0 emerging
Swypex Swypex is an Egyptian fintech, founded in 2022 and headquartered at Smart Village in Cairo, that provides an all-in-one financial management platform for businesses. The platfor... 0 emerging
dopay dopay is a digital payroll platform operating in Egypt that lets employers register employees and disburse salaries in minutes through a single system, including permanent, temp... 0 emerging
Asaak Asaak is an East African fintech company, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, that provides asset financing and working capital to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs wh... 0 emerging
Onafriq Onafriq (formerly MFS Africa) is a pan-African digital payments network headquartered in London with operating entities across Mauritius, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ugand... 9 minimal
Qardy Qardy is the first online lending aggregator marketplace in Egypt and the wider MENA region, connecting micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with banks and financial ins... 0 minimal
Apollo Agriculture Apollo Agriculture is an agricultural technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, that helps small-scale farmers across Africa maximize their profits... 0 minimal
Tugende Tugende is a for-profit social enterprise founded in 2012 in Uganda that uses asset finance, technology, and a customer-centric model to help informal-sector entrepreneurs (MSME... 0 minimal
Moneyfellows Money Fellows is an Egyptian fintech, founded in 2018 and regulated by the Central Bank of Egypt, that digitizes the traditional rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA /... 0 minimal
Thndr Thndr is an Egyptian investment and brokerage mobile app that lets retail users open a regulated brokerage account and invest in Egyptian Exchange (EGX) stocks, US equities, mut... 0 minimal
Raseedi Raseedi is an Egyptian financial technology platform that helps underbanked users manage their spending and save money. Through its mobile app it offers free and discounted call... 0 minimal
Inyad Inyad is an all-in-one business management and payments platform for small and medium businesses across Morocco, the Middle East, and Africa. Its mobile-first apps let merchants... 0 minimal
Shara Shara (Shara Technology Management Nigeria Ltd) is a Lagos-based fintech that provides collateral-free working-capital loans of up to NGN 10 million to Nigerian small and medium... 0 minimal
Bringy, Inc. Bringy, Inc. is a digital insurance brokerage operating in Egypt, founded in 2019 and licensed by the Egyptian Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA License #100). Through its web... 0 minimal
MNT-Halan MNT-Halan is a Cairo, Egypt-headquartered fintech holding company and Egypt's first private fintech unicorn, founded in 2017 by Mounir Nakhla (CEO) and Ahmed Mohsen (CTO). MNT-H... 0 minimal
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
Ejara Ejara is a Cameroon-based, regulated fintech platform giving people across Francophone Africa and its diaspora access to digital savings and investment products through a mobile... 0 minimal
KaliSpot KaliSpot is a fintech network operated by Outsource Monetic Group Inc. (OMG), an Atlanta-headquartered startup with legal presence in Senegal and Morocco. KaliSpots are Financia... 0 minimal
Khazna Khazna is Egypt's leading financial super app, a Cairo-based fintech building inclusive financial services for the country's underbanked payroll workers and their families. Thro... 0 minimal
Onit Onit is a Kenyan digital bank operated by Onit Microfinance Bank Inc. and regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), with deposits protected by the Kenya Deposit Insurance Co... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (47)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 20 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 47 documents.

Klasha Payments API

Collect payments from customers in Africa via card, bank transfer, USSD, M-Pesa, mobile money and the Klasha wallet, including charge val...

Klasha Payout API

Send money locally to bank accounts and mobile money wallets across Africa and to China, with bank-code lookup, account resolution, walle...

Klasha Swap API

Generate a quote and swap funds between merchant wallets using internal Klasha foreign-exchange rates, then fetch the resulting swap by r...

Klasha Virtual Account API

Create virtual accounts on demand in NGN and GHS, receive customer funds through them, requery accounts, poll collection status and pull ...

Klasha Payment Link API

Generate payment links for merchants and sub-merchants to collect payments without a code integration, from the dashboard or over the API.

Djamo Business API

REST API for businesses to collect payments, send single and mass transfers, check balance, manage sub-companies, and receive HMAC-signed...

AZA Finance Account Debits API

The Account Debits API from AZA Finance — 1 operation(s) for account debits.

AZA Finance Account Validation API

The Account Validation API from AZA Finance — 1 operation(s) for account validation.

AZA Finance Accounts API

The Accounts API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for accounts.

AZA Finance API Logs API

The API Logs API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for api logs.

AZA Finance Currency Info API

The Currency Info API from AZA Finance — 3 operation(s) for currency info.

AZA Finance dlocal balance API

The dlocal balance API from AZA Finance — 1 operation(s) for dlocal balance.

AZA Finance Documents API

The Documents API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for documents.

AZA Finance Logs API

The Logs API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for logs.

AZA Finance Mandates API

The Mandates API from AZA Finance — 1 operation(s) for mandates.

AZA Finance Payin Methods API

The Payin Methods API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for payin methods.

AZA Finance Payment Methods API

The Payment Methods API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for payment methods.

AZA Finance Payout Methods API

The Payout Methods API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for payout methods.

AZA Finance Recipients API

The Recipients API from AZA Finance — 3 operation(s) for recipients.

AZA Finance Senders API

The Senders API from AZA Finance — 2 operation(s) for senders.

AZA Finance Transactions API

The Transactions API from AZA Finance — 7 operation(s) for transactions.

AZA Finance Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from AZA Finance — 3 operation(s) for webhooks.

Cowrywise Embed API

Investment-as-a-service REST API that allows developers to embed regulated investment products (savings, mutual funds, treasury bills, Eu...

8B Model Context Protocol Server

An OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol endpoint served from 8B's own WordPress installation at www.8b.africa. Discovery is standards-c...

Earnipay App API

The App API from Earnipay — 1 operation(s) for app.

Earnipay APP Provider API

Third-party APP provider integration (Taxly) for FIRS submission

Earnipay Authentication API

User authentication and authorization endpoints

Earnipay Bank API

The Bank API from Earnipay — 2 operation(s) for bank.

Earnipay Business API

Business profile management and FIRS configuration

Earnipay Customers API

Customer management for invoicing

Earnipay Invoices API

Invoice creation, management, and FIRS validation

Earnipay IRN Generator API

Generate FIRS-compliant Invoice Reference Numbers

Earnipay Payment Details API

The Payment Details API from Earnipay — 2 operation(s) for payment details.

Earnipay Products API

The Products API from Earnipay — 2 operation(s) for products.

Earnipay QR Code Generator API

Generate FIRS-compliant encrypted QR codes for invoices

Earnipay Team API

Team member and invitation management

Earnipay Users API

User profile management

Julaya Partner API

Auth-gated partner integration API for programmatic disbursement (mobile money and bank transfers) and collection (cash and mobile money)...

Onafriq Async Payouts API

Asynchronous payouts designed for Money Transfer Organizations (MTOs) and disbursement partners. Partners create payments to mobile money...

Onafriq Sync Payouts API

Synchronous payouts custom-built for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and partners that require synchronous responses. Transaction results...

Onafriq Sync Bank Transfers API

Synchronous bank transfer API for sending funds directly to bank accounts across the Onafriq network with real-time response semantics.

Onafriq Collections API

Collections (Payins) API for receiving funds from customers across cards, cash agent networks, and mobile money wallets. Supports merchan...

Onafriq Get Rates API

Programmatic access to daily foreign-exchange rates used by the Onafriq network so partners can price cross-border transactions and perfo...

Onafriq Async Webhooks API

Instant Payment Notification (IPN) webhooks delivered asynchronously to partner endpoints as transaction state changes — used in combinat...

Onafriq Contacts API

Contacts API for adding and retrieving customer (payer / payee) records used across Payins, Payouts, and reconciliation workflows on the ...

Baxi Agent Banking API

Onafriq's Nigerian agent-banking platform (Baxi) exposes Virtual Account, Fingerprint (POS biometric activation), and Account Debit (card...

Onafriq Card Issuance API

Card issuance and processing platform for partners launching physical and virtual prepaid card programs, including Visa virtual card crea...

Other industries in Africa

Banking & Open Banking 22 Supply Chain & Procurement 21 Mobility & Fleet 17 Logistics 16 Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 14 Retail 14 Artificial Intelligence 11 Venture Capital & Investing 10 Human Resources & Payroll 9 Cybersecurity & Identity 7 Digital Health & Telehealth 7 Healthcare 7 All of Africa →

Financial Services elsewhere

North America 258 Europe 139 United Kingdom & Ireland 90 India & South Asia 54 Latin America 42 Southeast Asia 31 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 20 Greater China 15 France & Iberia 14 Middle East 13 Japan & Korea 7 Nordics 5 All of Financial Services →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Africa and Financial Services. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, 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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