Flutterwave Partners with Amole to Facilitate Remittances into Ethiopia to Amole's Digital Wallet and Bank Accounts
The partnership will allow over 8m Ethiopian Diaspora to send money instantly through Amole, to Amole Wallet, bank accounts and cash pickup locations at over 2500 locations.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Flutterwave, Africa's leading payments technology company, has today announced its partnership with Amole, Ethiopia's largest mobile Digital Wallet platform, to facilitate money transfer into Ethiopia through Amole, to Amole Wallet, bank accounts and cash pickup locations at over 2500 locations.
Amole offers its customers digital payment capabilities and access to digital products and services to enable users complete essential transactions at their convenience. The new partnership with Flutterwave will serve the Ethiopian economy by making diaspora remittances easier for over 8M members of Ethiopian Diaspora that remit over $5B annually to Ethiopia.
Flutterwave For Business users, Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) using Flutterwave and Barter by Flutterwave users can also send money into Ethiopia. Non-Barter users who receive inward remittances to Ethiopia can receive payments from other countries too.
The remittance service in Ethiopia today is seen by users to be expensive, with manual paperwork and delays making it challenging and time consuming for the diaspora community. This partnership solves these problems by providing instant delivery of funds to the receiver at no fee, with more control of where and how to send money, including transparency from a regulatory standpoint.
According to a report by the National Bank of Ethiopia, over 75% of Ethiopia's population is unbanked, while nearly 40% of all bank branches are in the capital city Addis Ababa. While remittances play an important role in Ethiopia's economies having considerably surged over the last two decades, increasing from USD 233 million in 2002/03 to USD 5.6 billion at the end of 2018/19, local communities and growing small business segments are underserved.
This collaboration will extend financial services to these communities, by facilitating remittances from diaspora Ethiopians, hence expanding business opportunities for small and growing businesses in these communities. Subsequently, this will boost financial inclusion within the country as users of the service will have the option to collect cash from any of Amole's 2,500 authorised agent locations, including the Ethiopian Postal Service with over 1400 locations, Hidase Telecom 860 locations and at any of the 450 Dashen Bank branches across the country.
Speaking on the partnership, Flutterwave Founder & Chief Executive Officer Olugbenga 'GB' Agboola, said: "We are delighted to be collaborating with Amole to enable digital remittances and cash pickup into Ethiopia for the over 8 million Ethiopians in diaspora. This is another significant milestone for payments in Africa as we work together to bridge the financial inclusion gap in the country and across the continent. Our collaboration will ensure that Ethiopian businesses are getting paid from all over the world, opening up massive opportunities for business growth, a goal we are passionate about. This is just the beginning and we hope to deepen the discussions around our partnership to the benefits of Africans, everywhere."
Asfaw Alemu, CEO of Dashen Bank, said: "We are happy to partner with Flutterwave in delivering crucial forex that will support both our customers and Ethiopia. This partnership will play an important role in delivering even more value to our diaspora community, linking them to their country with more opportunities for global eCommerce in the near future."
Yemiru Chanyalew, CEO Moneta Technologies, SC – said: "We are very excited to work with Flutterwave and leverage our combined technologies to broaden our offering to Ethiopian Diaspora community consumers and merchants to enable cross-border remittance and commerce. Amole as payment and commerce platform we are increasingly focused on cashless payments and cross-border eCommerce transactions. Our combined efforts in enabling seamless and interoperable remittance and eCommerce payments will drive much desired financial inclusion in Ethiopia."
To make payment via this new service, a sender outside Ethiopia inputs the details of the receiver in Ethiopia, the payment destination (Amole digital wallet, bank account or cash pickup location anywhere in Ethiopia) and the security question and answer with which the receiver can access the funds if the preferred payment destination is via an Amole authorized agent.
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ABOUT FLUTTERWAVE
Flutterwave is a payments technology company that helps businesses all over the world expand their operations in Africa and other emerging markets, through a platform that enables cross-border transactions via one API. Flutterwave has processed over 140M transactions worth over USD $9B to date and serves more than 290,000 businesses including customers like Uber, Flywire, Booking.com, etc. The Company's key advantage is international payment processing in 150 currencies and multiple payment modes including local and international cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, Barter by Flutterwave etc. Flutterwave has an infrastructure reach in over 33 African countries, including Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and now Ethiopia. For more information on Flutterwave's journey, please visit: http://www.flutterwave.com
ABOUT DASHEN BANK
Dashen Bank S.C. established on September 20, 1995 is the largest private bank and leading digital bank in Ethiopia, pioneered electronic banking in Ethiopia and is the only bank accepting the four payment card schemes (Amex, VISA, MasterCard, and UnionPay). For more information on Dashen, visit their website About Dashen.
For additional information:
You may also contact Mr. Kasaye Eshetu Director for Alternate Channel Department at Dashen Bank
Mobile: +251 937776535
Email: Kasaye.e@DashenBankSC.com
ABOUT MONETA TECHNOLOGIES
Moneta Technologies S.C. is a Fintech company, fully-owned subsidiary of Fettan Holdings, Limited of Kenya, the company is headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Moneta Payment solution is a secure and efficient payment platform that links consumers, banks, merchants, mobile content aggregators and service providers into an electronic payment ecosystem.
Moneta aims to deliver a collusive financial service to the unbanked and under-banked people of Ethiopia; enabling them access, aggregated financial services from their banks, service providers, agents and merchants at a single point of service. Our mission is to deliver an effective, efficient, reliable, accessible and secure payment system that is relevant to Ethiopia's environment and fully supports the customer and the country's needs.
For additional information:
You may also contact Mr. Samson Getu- Vice President – Sales and Marketing
Mobile: +251 929903278
Email: SamsonG@MyAmole.com
PRESS CONTACTS:
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Media Contact
Yemiru Chanyalew, Moneta Technologies, SC, +1 6309995964, yemiruc@myamole.com
Kasaye Eshetu, Dashen Bank, +251937776535, Kasaye.e@dashenbanksc.com
SOURCE Amole
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