Financial infrastructure built for the way Africa actually works.
NEXUS brings stokvels, burial societies, cross-border payments, and community finance onto one platform — built from first principles for the 300 million the formal system refused to serve.
8
Payment rails
19
Financial instruments
3
Countries live
R50bn
Stokvel market served
What NEXUS does
Infrastructure for the economy that already exists.
Mukando
Digital stokvelCommunity savings governance. The stokvel still runs the stokvel. NEXUS handles the plumbing — contributions, payouts, cross-border members.
Burial Society Network
Community risk poolingAn operating layer for an institution that has worked for generations. Not insurance. Infrastructure for the governance that already exists.
Cross-border payments
PAPSS + 8 railsZAR, USD, ZWL, MZN. Paystack, M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, EcoCash, PAPSS. The same-day transfer the informal chain took three days.
School Fees Smoothing
Income AIAI predicts income patterns. Advances the school fee before it's due. Repaid from the income stream — automatically.
Community Bonds
Direct SMME financeA Zimbabwean farmer issues a bond. Investors across Southern Africa subscribe with R500 and a NEXUS account. No broker. No minimum.
Merchant Intelligence
AI insightsPeak trading hours, best customers, most profitable products — the analytical advantage formal retail takes for granted, now for a spaza shop.
USSD channel
Feature phone accessAny phone. Any network. No data connection required. Because the largest untapped economy on the continent runs on devices that work.
Income Smoothing
Gig worker financeIrregular income made predictable. AI smoothing across gig, trade, and informal income streams.
Group Investment
Pan-African marketsZimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania. Community mandates, monthly contributions, live projections.
The economy that built its own institutions
South Africa's stokvel industry moves R50 billion per year through 11 million participants — without a regulator, a registered entity, or a minimum capital requirement. The burial society has served communities for generations without actuaries. The informal remittance chain is faster and more reliable than the formal alternative.
These are not gaps. They are institutions built by people who made a rational assessment and found the formal system wanting. NEXUS does not improve what they built. It gives what they built infrastructure — the ability to operate across borders, to persist when members move, to run on a phone rather than a kitchen table.
The community still governs the stokvel. The infrastructure handles the plumbing.
Payment rails
Eight rails. Every major African payment network. One platform.
Paystack
South Africa
Flutterwave
NG / GH / KE
M-Pesa
Kenya
MTN MoMo
GH / UG / ZM
EcoCash
Zimbabwe
PAPSS
Pan-African AU
Circle USDC
Cross-border
USSD
Any phone
Built for the 300 million. Live now.
Real users. Three countries. Infrastructure that did not exist three years ago.
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