SunFintech, a Mauritius-incorporated payment intermediary, has partnered with Flutterwave to enhance cross-border payments, foreign exchange liquidity, and treasury operations across Africa.
By leveraging Flutterwave’s pan-African payment infrastructure, the company aims to eliminate settlement delays, enable seamless multi-currency transactions, and build a robust treasury ecosystem to support its expansion across the continent.
The partnership comes as the rapid growth of digital commerce across Africa continues to transform cross-border payments and foreign exchange liquidity into critical drivers of economic growth.
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Africa’s digital economy was valued at approximately $180 billion in 2025, while its e-commerce market is projected to reach $113 billion by 2029, driven by rising internet penetration, smartphone adoption, and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Digital Trade Protocol.
At the same time, the continent’s cross-border payments market is expected to grow from $329 billion in 2025 to nearly $1 trillion by 2035, underscoring the need for seamless payment and foreign exchange solutions.
Efficient payment infrastructure now plays a key role in determining how quickly businesses scale, the cost of cross-border trade, and the speed at which remittances reach the individuals and families who depend on them.
With a mission to provide seamless and secure remittance access for all, empowering individuals and businesses across Africa with faster, cheaper, and more reliable cross-border payment solutions through trusted partner networks, SunFintech is helping individuals, diaspora, and businesses move money across borders securely and affordably.
SunFintech provides a suite of cross-border payment and treasury solutions designed to facilitate seamless money movement between global markets and Africa.
Its retail remittance platform enables fast, reliable transfers from the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom to African countries via direct bank deposits and mobile wallet payouts.
The platform also offers competitive transaction fees, real-time foreign exchange (FX) rates, and instant payment processing to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of cross-border transactions.
Beyond remittances, SunFintech offers a cross-border FX brokerage service that delivers real-time foreign exchange execution, transparent pricing, and deep liquidity for licensed partners and payout providers.
Its intelligent routing technology automatically directs transactions to the most efficient liquidity providers, helping customers access competitive exchange rates, tighter spreads, enhanced execution quality, and lower trading costs.
Also, it enables fast, reliable transfers from the US, Europe, and the UK to Africa with bank deposits and mobile wallet payouts, competitive fees, and FX rates with real-time transactions, cost savings, and support for seamless global payments.
With licensing and local presence in Mauritius, Nigeria, and Ghana, and trusted partnerships with banks and fintechs, the fintech is building a connected, pan-African payment network that reduces friction and delivers value at scale.
By leveraging Flutterwave’s extensive payment infrastructure, SunFintech is expected to significantly strengthen the reach and efficiency of its cross-border payment services.
Flutterwave’s network, which spans more than 30 African countries and supports hundreds of local payment methods, will enable SunFintech to process transactions faster, expand local currency settlement capabilities, and reduce the operational complexity associated with cross-border payments.
In addition, Flutterwave’s established regulatory footprint and banking partnerships across Africa provide SunFintech with a scalable infrastructure for expansion into new markets without having to build payment rails from the ground up.
This allows the company to focus on strengthening its remittance, FX brokerage, and treasury services while offering customers faster payouts, greater payment reliability, competitive exchange rates, and broader access to local payment channels.
Looking ahead, the collaboration reflects a broader trend in Africa’s fintech ecosystem, where strategic partnerships are becoming a key driver of innovation, financial inclusion, and regional economic integration.