Thursday 14 April 2022

AFRICUNIA BANK AND SPARCO BANK ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AND THE LAUNCHING OF “PAYCLUSION” FINTECH PLATFORM

AFRICUNIA BANK and SPARCO BANK are pleased to announce they have entered into a Global Strategic Partnership and Joint Venture, combining AFRICUNIA BANK’s industry leading Financial, FinTech and next-generation technology services with SPARCO BANK’s world class strategy-led trade financing and sustainable investment banking network.
 
With technology playing an increasingly critical role in every aspect of businesses, companies recognize that they need to accelerate the development of digital solutions to ensure they remain on the competitive vanguard. The AFRICUNIA-SPARCO BANK partnership brings together deep skills in business and technology, product conceptualization and development, technology strategy and deployment, band marketing and organizational change management to help support clients to engage in their transformations successfully.
 
“AFRICUNIA-SPARCO BANK partnership is a powerful combination. AFRICUNIA BANK’s understanding of complex digital product interactions, its in-depth engineering expertise, agility, and collaborative approach is uniquely complimentary to how Sparco Bank operates. We believe this partnership will generate industry leading technology, widening its products and platforms,” said Dr. Chancellor Nzenwa, AFRICUNIA BANK’s Founder & President.  “With offices and service locations in the Canada, Comoros Union, Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States, Middle East, Malaysia, Suriname, South America, Switzerland, Tanzania and the added capabilities of hundreds of AFRICUNIA BANK and SPARCO BANK‘s employees, this partnership will allow us to drive far reaching business impact for our clients.”
 
“Partnering with AFRICUNIA BANK to deliver transformation for our clients will allow us to provide the very best business, program, wealth management, and investment portfolio strategies on which we’ll conceive, design, and build the next generation of transformative enterprise and digital products and platforms,” said C.K. Low, Sparco Bank Managing Director. “Together, working as one team, we will unlock the full potential of digital transformations and place our clients on the best path for success in the new digital FinTech business landscape.”
 
As an indication of commitment to the partnership, AFRICUNIA BANK and SPARCO BANK have launched and taken ownership stakes in PAYCLUSION – a neo FinTech platform that operates exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. Additionally, Sparco Bank will become part of the AFRICUNIA ECOSYSTEM, a network of partnerships that provides decentralized finance, proprietary access to tools, technologies, and delivery capabilities that help AFRICUNIA teams deliver breakthrough client results.
 
By virtually connecting both leading global Banks the collaboration represents a step-change in the way both businesses address the needs of the market.
 
Editor’s Note: To arrange an interview, contact:
 
Madeleine Winkler, Executive Secretary – AFRICUNIA BANK
info@africunia.com
+41 76 755 0686

 

C.K. Low, Managing Director – SPARCO BANK
info@sparcobank.com
+6019 957 0028
 
ABOUT AFRICUNIA BANK
AFRICUNIA BANK is a decentralised, distributed, adaptive, open socio-technomical financial ecosystem with properties of self-organisation, scalability and sustainability where healthy competition and collaboration among diverse businesses, people and entities prevail. Our business model is anchored on a free, open source and distributed software platform lthat is based on internet technologies and which is designed to solve the problems of the unbanked and financial exclusion, empower the less privileged ones, enable individuals, businesses, SMEs and large enterprises to efficiently and more effectively create, integrate and provide services in both real world and in the software sphere.

ABOUT SPARCO BANK
Sparco Bank was established since 1998 as a Federal Credit Union Bank for the National Army of Suriname in South America. Sparco made a sweeping decision to embark in the international financial fraternity in 2020, with the offer of Wealth Management, Investment Banking, Trade Finance, Structured Financing and Digital Banking. It provides Sustainable Trade Finance Facilities, Letter of Credit (LC), Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC), Bank Guarantee (BG), Performance Guarantee/Bond (PG/PB), Advance Payment Guarantee (APG) & Bank Comfort Letter (BCL) for those who do not have enough Cash Flow to complete their trade transactions, bridging the gap that plagues current international trade.

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