Pulse Digital Picks: Paga stays ahead by keeping payments simple

Digital sector in focus: Best Digital Payment Platform

Pulse Pick: Paga

Today in this informative series, Pulse picks from the digital payment sector, where Paga has been doing tremendous work in bringing easy money solutions to Nigerians.

Let’s throw in a quick fun fact here: Paga is Nigeria’s first and leading emerging markets mobile money company, birthed with the purpose of making it simple for one billion people to access and use money. They have taken leadership in the fintech ecosystem by being the pioneering mobile money and wallet driving platform in Nigeria.

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The company stays aware of the major challenge many Nigerians face with payments and access to financial services.

In solving this, they’ve focused on digitizing payments by building an ecosystem that enables simple financial services for everyone. Their ethos is deeply rooted in making life possible and easier for all customers.

Since being founded and kicking off operations in 2012, they have served over 15 million customers across their channels.

How Paga works

Paga services are offered through a consumer app which is available on iOS and Android devices. Customers are also served through a strong Agent Network of over 25,000 businesses and MSMEs in communities across Nigeria.

With Paga, anyone can send and receive money for free (email address and phone number), transfer money to any bank in Nigeria, pay internet, cable TV, electricity bills and buy airtime/data.

Achievements

As a company, Paga has achieved so much and they rightly take pride in their achievements. In the last five years alone, they have:

Processed over 106m transactions
Processed N1.8bn worth of transactions
Built the largest mobile money agent network with over 25k agents
Served 15m users
Acquired Software Engineering company, Apposit LLC
Entered a global partnership with Visa
Closed a $15m series B1 funding
Acquired IMTO license
Closed $10m series A funding

An exciting Paga future

Building off their Nigerian successes, they are now at the phase of expanding into other emerging markets in the next few years, beginning with Mexico.

To learn more about Paga, head to www.paga.com. You can also follow our journey via social media @mypaga on Twitter and @my_paga on Instagram.