Last year was really foundational for us, as a team. We doubled down on providing more value to you and other developers and internet businesses across Africa, to help you grow and succeed. Thank you for supporting and building with Mono in 2022.
This new year, we hope to continue our mission to power you with secure and reliable financial infrastructure, so you can create more possibilities for your customers.
To successfully support you in the areas that are most relevant to you, we would like to hear about what’s most important to you and your customers in 2023 and how Mono can help you achieve those things, tell us what you want us to build for you in 2023.
Reflections from 2022
The highlights
In 2022, users trusted Mono to securely link 671,484 financial accounts to their favourite internet businesses, to access personalised services. We also processed 98,582 payments successfully with our DirectPay PaywithBank option on the Flutterwave checkout. We are excited to have contributed to the success of African businesses in this way, in 2022.
In addition to this, here are some important moments and impactful learning points for us at Mono from the last year:
We built Mono Portal; a data privacy tool that allows end-users to securely view and control access to the financial data they have shared with apps and businesses, using Mono.
We officially launched in Kenya to provide businesses with secure, user-permissioned access to financial data.
We hosted the Mono Startup Pitch Event in Kenya.
We joined the Mastercard Start Path Open Banking Program.
We were authorized as a Data Processor in Kenya to power more businesses building innovative financial services for their users.
Built the Mono Telco data API to enable businesses with more ways to make data-informed decisions, using customer telco data.
Launched the Mono Developer Community to support developers who build with our APIs.
Created a 7-part video series that breaks down concepts in Open Banking.
Updates from December 2022
Here are some highlights from last month:
In a partner story video, Bujeti’s co-founders shared how Mono APIs have enabled their team to seamlessly build out their budgeting and expense management platform, while still in the beta phase of their business. You can watch it here.
We shared two new episodes of the Mono Open Banking video series on our YouTube. In these videos, we talked about Mono Portal and how we ensure the security of users’ data, and how you can apply the benefits of Open Banking in Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services.
