...For
deepening financial inclusion through cutting-edge innovations
DPO
Pay, a leading African Payment Service Provider, has been adjudged as the ‘Fintech
Discovery of the Year’ at the 2022 Ghana Fintech Awards.
The
award recognizes international fintech companies, working within the local
Ghanaian fintech ecosystem to provide multiple choices to the industry and
clients, ranging from payments infrastructure, credit and debit cards, mobile
money, merchant acquisitions, and other payment methods, leading to an
integrated financial sector.
This
recognition was also to appreciate and honour the company’s contribution to the
provision of best-in-class infrastructure for the deployment of fintech
solutions, ease of integration with third parties to offer both financial and
non-financial services, provision of excellent service support structure,
robust service-oriented technology platform that enables seamless transactions
among others.
Country
Manager, Frank Anwelle, who received the award on behalf of the company,
attributed the recognition to the company’s continuous desire to roll out
cutting-edge solutions to simplify payment processing across the continent with
the objective of deepening financial inclusion.
“We
are thriving in the industry and this recognition was in appreciation of the
value additions that we give to our merchants,” he stated. “With DPO Pay, no
one is left behind, because we try to offer seamless solutions to our merchants
to simplify the payment process,” he added.
Mr.
Anwelle said that being honoured as the Fintech Discovery of the Year positions
the company “very well” to pursue wide-range programmes to deepen the company’s
presence in Ghana and across the continent. “We are among the top five fintech
companies that had a good acquisition and this means that we have the right
investment to expand and deepen our presence,” he said.
DPO
Pay currently works with over 60,000 active merchants, including airlines,
hotels, restaurants, travel agents, and eCommerce all over Africa.
And,
as part of its efforts to bring payment solutions closer to local businesses
including small and medium Enterprises, in 2022 DPO Pay partnered with
Mastercard to enable thousands of these businesses to offer their customers
greater choice and convenience by pivoting online and accepting digital
payments.
The
company also released a new version of its payments app, DPO Pay Mobile.
Previously known as DumaPay, the App now offers a variety of new features to
allow for easier, more convenient transactions no matter where in Africa their
businesses are.
DPO
Pay was founded in 2006 and since then it has grown to be a pan-African PSP
with more than 400 employees and a presence in 21 African countries.
The
2022 Ghana Fintech Awards is an initiative of Arkel Limited – a Fintech
research and management consulting firm – that is proudly supported by the
Ghana Fintech and Payments Association. The awards scheme was initiated to
recognise and acknowledge the efforts and achievements of individuals and
companies driving last-mile solutions.
