AFRICA – Ecobank Groups’ fintech accelerator, Sandbox is now live and accessible, on request, to the African Fintech community after a successful pilot run with select Fintechs in early 2020,

The Sandbox allows Fintechs to access Ecobank’s Application Programming Interface (APIs) for the development of innovative solutions.

The Sandbox is a major milestone for the Ecobank Group on it’s Open Banking strategy and it will accelerate partnership with Fintechs and other Partners across Africa.

The Sandbox will position the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge beyond a competition to a Developer Platform and Marketplace of fintech solutions.

The Group Executive, Technology and Operations – Mr. Eddy Ogbogu stresses that “As the Pan-African bank, Ecobank is committed to the growth of the Pan-African Fintech Ecosystem.

“This Sandbox is designed to facilitate this objective. Innovative Fintechs, start-ups, product developers and technology partners are invited to leverage the platform to actualise their pan-African dreams.”

Group Senior Fintech Advisor – Djiba Diallo noted, “The Sandbox is designed to be relevant to the needs of the Ecosystem.

“There were really positive reviews from the pilot as well as some valuable feedback which helped in finetuning the platform for Live launch.

“The pilot indeed helped both Ecobank and Fintechs get the best out of the Sandbox. We are excited about the new opportunities it brings to the ecosystem and customers.”

The Sandbox will allow Partners and Fintechs to access Ecobank APIs for the development of innovative solutions for the 33 African countries where it operates.

“This is an innovative platform we were able to carry out mobile money, card payment transactions conveniently. Omosalewa “O” Adeyemi, Global Head of Expansion & Partnerships at Flutterwave, said

“The platform also provided APIs that allow a merchant identify itself for future merchant terminal creation as well as generate unique merchant and dynamic QR payment codes Merchants, in any case, are also able to generate their account statement for holistic account overview.

The sandbox signals a deepening of Ecobank’s commitment to working with African fintechs in furthering digital banking across the continent.

This follows the leading Pan African Banking group’s appointment of a Group Senior Fintech Advisor in 2019.   With these notable actions, the annual Ecobank Fintech Challenge is evolving beyond a competition to a marketplace of fintech solutions.

Upon registration, one shall access our sandbox where they can start working with the APIs to quickly integrate payments into their platform.

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