PawaPay Reaches Three Billion Mobile Money Transactions Through Single API Platform
PawaPay, a leading pan-African payments aggregator, has processed three billion successful mobile money transactions through its platform – a milestone that reflects growing demand from businesses that need to collect and send payments reliably across multiple African markets.
The third billion was processed in under nine months, three months faster than the previous billion. Daily transaction volumes nearly doubled over the same period, rising from approximately 2.4 million to five million.
African mobile money grew 26% in transaction value last year, with merchant payments globally up 50% to $155 billion (GSMA State of the Industry Report 2026). PawaPay’s transaction volumes have grown faster than the broader market across several of the sectors it supports.
Mobile money increasingly sits behind a long tail of smaller businesses across the continent: from optical chains like Lapaire processing eye-test and glasses payments across multiple markets, to e-commerce operators in cities like Kampala, education technology platforms collecting parent payments, and retail businesses processing daily takings.
PawaPay connects businesses to almost 50 money operators across 20 African markets through a single API, giving access to more than a billion wallets, with direct regulatory licences where required by local frameworks. The company has processed over €10 billion in payments to date.
