Pula Financial Technologies

Building financial infrastructure for Africa.

Building financial infrastructure for Africa.

Building financial infrastructure for Africa.

Pula Financial Technologies is building PulaPay, a programmable financial infrastructure layer designed to enable financial systems to interoperate across institutions, markets and borders.

Pula Financial Technologies is building PulaPay, a programmable financial infrastructure layer designed to enable financial systems to interoperate across institutions, markets and borders.

We believe the next generation of African financial infrastructure will be defined not by more isolated payment rails, but by the ability of those systems to work together.

We believe the next generation of African financial infrastructure will be defined not by more isolated payment rails, but by the ability of those systems to work together.

What we are building

Infrastructure between financial systems.

Infrastructure between financial systems.

PulaPay is being built as an orchestration and interoperability layer between the financial systems that already move value. These include commercial banks, mobile money operators, payment networks, card schemes, national payment systems, settlement infrastructure and other connected financial systems. PulaPay does not seek to replace those systems. It is designed to provide the infrastructure through which they can interoperate.

PulaPay is being built as an orchestration and interoperability layer between the financial systems that already move value. These include commercial banks, mobile money operators, payment networks, card schemes, national payment systems, settlement infrastructure and other connected financial systems. PulaPay does not seek to replace those systems. It is designed to provide the infrastructure through which they can interoperate.

Why we exist

Financial systems should interoperate by default.

Financial systems should interoperate by default.

Africa’s financial infrastructure has evolved across independent institutions, markets and payment rails. That fragmentation creates additional integration, operational and settlement complexity whenever value needs to move between systems. PulaPay exists to reduce that fragmentation by providing a common infrastructure layer for financial interoperability.

Africa’s financial infrastructure has evolved across independent institutions, markets and payment rails. That fragmentation creates additional integration, operational and settlement complexity whenever value needs to move between systems. PulaPay exists to reduce that fragmentation by providing a common infrastructure layer for financial interoperability.

Our belief

Money should move like information.

Money should move like information.

Information can cross systems instantly because the infrastructure connecting those systems is designed to interoperate. Financial value should increasingly work the same way. PulaPay is being built around that principle: independent financial systems should be able to exchange value through governed infrastructure without each connection becoming a new infrastructure problem.

Information can cross systems instantly because the infrastructure connecting those systems is designed to interoperate. Financial value should increasingly work the same way. PulaPay is being built around that principle: independent financial systems should be able to exchange value through governed infrastructure without each connection becoming a new infrastructure problem.

Pula Financial Technologies

OFFICES

South Africa — The Colosseum, Foyer 3, Century Way, Century City, Cape Town, Western Cape 7441, South Africa

Lesotho — Link House 2, 219 Kingsway, Maseru 100, Lesotho