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The Switch Powering Cross-Border Commerce into Africa.

B2B2X payment orchestration for Africa. Smart routing, instant auto-failover, and real-time FX settlement connect every platform to every African payment rail through a single API.
USD 120Mn+Processed Volume
3Active Countries
15Direct Integrations
USD 1Bn/moPartner Network Reach
1
THE INFRASTRUCTURE

Beyond Payment Processing.

Pesaswap enables platforms to operate across local payment networks with optimised routing, instant FX settlement, and centralised reconciliation, all through a single API integration.

Smart Routing

Intelligent transaction routing across 15 direct MNO and bank integrations. Automated failover and success rate optimisation across every corridor.

Real-Time FX Settlement

Cross-border FX in minutes, not days. UK, US, or EU to an East African wallet or bank account. FX spread is the most profitable revenue rail.

3-Way Reconciliation

Automated reconciliation across the bank ledger, MNO transaction log, and merchant statement. Zero manual settlement work. Full audit trail.

One API. Any MNO, any bank, any PSP. No lock-in.
2
THE ARCHITECTURE

Pesaswap sits in the middle.

One unified API. Smart routing across mobile money, cards, and bank rails. Whitelabel, secure, sub-2s failover.
Your Merchants
E
E-commerce
Online stores & checkouts
R
Retail & F&B
In-store, QR, USSD
S
SaaS & Subscriptions
Recurring billing
M
Marketplaces
Split settlements
A
Mobile Apps
Embedded SDKs
P
pesaswap
The Orchestration Switch
Smart Routing
Region · Amount · Success rate · Cost
Auto Failover
Sub-2s retry across PSPs, invisible
Whitelabel Layer
Your brand, your domain, your UX
Real-time Analytics
Volume · Success rate · Cost per provider
African Payment Network
M
M-Pesa
Mobile Money
A
Airtel Money
Mobile Money
MM
MTN MoMo
Pan-African Wallet
CB
Choice Bank
Banking Rail
V
Visa & Mastercard
Card Networks
PL
PesaLink & Banks
Equity · KCB · NCBA
12+
Channels
All connected through one API
<2s
Failover Latency
Customer never sees a failed transaction
99.9%
Platform Uptime SLA
Transaction-grade reliability
~7d
Time to Integrate
From sandbox to live

Every merchant above uses Pesaswap to reach every rail below, through one integration, one contract, one reconciliation file.

3
WHY PESASWAP

Others Lock Merchants In. We Unlock the Network.

The market is full of closed PSP ecosystems. Pesaswap is the only open orchestration layer.

Closed PSP Ecosystem

Flutterwave, Paystack, Cellulant, PesaPal

  • Merchant locked into ONE provider
  • Single point of failure, no failover
  • Country-by-country integration required
  • Opaque FX rates, manual reconciliation
  • Concentration risk: if provider fails, you fail

Open Orchestration Layer

Pesaswap

  • Merchant chooses any provider; we route optimally
  • Automated failover across 15 direct integrations
  • One API, every corridor across 4 markets
  • Real-time FX settlement with automated reconciliation
  • No concentration risk: multi-rail by design

"We are not competing with PSPs; we are the infrastructure that connects and optimises them."

4
DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

Go live with a few lines of code.

One API call routes across every rail, fails over in under two seconds, and settles to the dashboard your team already watches. No per-provider integrations, no manual reconciliation.
pesaswap.sh
$ curl https://api.pesaswap.io/v1/payments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
  -d amount=45000 \
  -d currency=USD \
  -d destination=mpesa:254712345678 \
  -d settlement=auto

# 200 OK
{
  "id": "pay_4920211",
  "status": "settled",
  "route": "USD → EUR → KES",
  "provider": "wise",
  "settled_in_ms": 1840
}
Settled and pending transactions in the Pesaswap dashboard, reconciled in real time

Every call lands as a reconciled transaction. Settled, pending, and failed-over states are visible to your team the moment they happen.

1

Request

Send one POST with the amount and destination. Cards, mobile money, and bank rails share the same contract.

2

Route & failover

Pesaswap picks the best corridor by success rate and cost, then retries across providers in under two seconds.

3

Settle & reconcile

FX is applied, the transaction is 3-way reconciled, and the result lands in your dashboard in real time.

5
TRACTION

One switch. Every kind of partner.

Payments infrastructure designed for platforms. Simple to plug in, built to scale.

USD 0Mn+

Processed Volume

Volume through Tier-1 partner rails

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Active Countries

Live operations across East Africa

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Direct Integrations

MNOs, banks, and card networks

USD 0Bn/mo

Partner Network Reach

LemFi global processing volume

Choice BankGlobal PSP · International merchants

Choice Bank's international merchant flows route through Pesaswap into every East African rail. One contract. Thousands of merchants.

LemFiRemittance · USD 1Bn/month

LemFi processes USD 1Bn/month globally. Pesaswap handles the East African leg of every transaction. Volume is theirs; infrastructure margin is ours.

NalaCross-border remittance

Nala routes consumer remittance into East Africa through Pesaswap, the settlement and reconciliation layer beneath every transfer.

Co-op BankBank · QR Distribution

Co-op Bank distributes Pesaswap-powered QR to its merchant base. Its distribution network means instant local merchant coverage at zero CAC.

6
REVENUE MODEL

Revenue Model

Gross-margin positive from day one. Four compounding revenue rails that scale with volume. No consumer acquisition cost.

Transaction Fees

Volume-Based Collections

Primary volume driver

Percentage fee on every inbound payment processed: e-commerce, QR, remittance receipts.

Transaction pricing shared on a call
Scales linearly with merchant throughput
Primary driver: Kenya collections volume
Whitelabel-ready merchant checkout

FX & Treasury

Cross-Border Settlement

Highest-margin rail

Seamless cross-border settlement and treasury services from UK/US/EU into East Africa.

Revenue from FX spread per settlement
Highest-margin rail at current scale
Treasury services for partner platforms
Corridor: EU/UK/US to KE/TZ/UG/RW

Wallet-to-Wallet

P2P & Diaspora

Fastest-growing rail

Fee on wallet top-ups, P2P transfers, and diaspora corridors. Low friction, high frequency.

Fee per wallet transaction
Lowest network cost structure
Diaspora corridor primary use case
Multiplier via aggregator partnerships

Invoice & QR

Corporate Collections

Bank-distributed rail

Corporate invoice management and QR-driven collection, distributed through bank partnerships.

Fee on invoice settlement and QR collections
Distributed via bank partner networks
Corporate and SME billing use case
Instant local merchant coverage

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