SlickPay
“Can SlickPay become the default payment infrastructure layer for Algerian merchants and digital platforms by abstracting the SATIM/GIE Monétique interbank network into a simple API?”
SlickPay launched in 2022 as a consumer-facing mobile wallet in Algeria, targeting the country's largely cash-dependent economy by linking CIB and EDAHABIA bank/postal accounts for digital payments. The company built on Algeria's SATIM interbank network as its core processing rail, positioning itself as a payment gateway and aggregator layer rather than a standalone bank. Its embedded-finance angle is the developer API (v2), which lets merchants and platforms integrate AlgerianQR/link payments without building their own SATIM integration, effectively acting as the country's de-facto payment-as-a-service layer for SMBs.