“Can one company own the payment rails between Africa and the rest of the world?”
Founded 2016 as an African cross-border payment gateway connecting local card schemes, bank accounts, and mobile-money rails. Expanded from acquiring to a full-stack financial infrastructure platform — adding remittances (Send), virtual cards, POS, and a lending marketplace (Flutterwave Capital) powered by third-party African banks. Now positions itself as pan-African payments infrastructure with international payout corridors into USD/EUR/GBP.
Flutterwave processes payments through Flutterwave (self-operated).
Flutterwave's lending and capital products are provided by CashConnect Microfinance Bank, Indicina, Keystone Bank, Migo, Wema Bank, Zenith Bank and Sterling Bank.
Flutterwave uses Flutterwave (self-operated) for FX and cross-border payouts.
Flutterwave's crypto products run on Fireblocks (Flow — stablecoin payment acceptance).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 4 layers in Flutterwave's stack: Payments / PSP (Flutterwave (self-operated)); Lending (CashConnect Microfinance Bank, Indicina, Keystone Bank, Migo and 4 others); FX & payouts (Flutterwave (self-operated)); Crypto (Fireblocks (Flow — stablecoin payment acceptance)).
Flutterwave was founded by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Olugbenga Agboola and is founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA (and Lagos, Nigeria).
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