United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant have announced a partnership extending payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries UBA operates. These countries include Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, the Republic of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. This network represents one of the primary tools in bringing together Africa’s fragmented payments ecosystem, ensuring Cellulant’s Payment Gateway, Tingg, is available to many merchants and consumers in each of these markets.
The announcement is the latest in a line of new partnerships for Cellulant, as it continues to expand its network with leading financial institutions like UBA. The company’s payments platform, Tingg, now available via 120 banks, is a one-stop payment gateway for multinational corporations, mid-caps, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) alike. The platform enables merchants to receive, view, and reconcile all their payments via a single application programming interface (API), eliminating the need to sign up for multiple payment providers, including mobile money and mobile money operators (MoMos). This simultaneously streamlines businesses’ administration processes while expanding the range of payment options they can offer to consumers, ensuring maximum choice and flexibility both offline and online.