How we verify people, protect money and register the business.

Goods traded between member states qualify for preferential tariff treatment only when origin is documented.

Every marketplace listing and cross-border order carries the seller's verified corporate registry number, incorporation country and origin declaration, so an origin certificate can be produced from the trade record.

Pilot programme matching verified exporters and importers on approved product lines.

Corporate verification (KYB), product listing and settlement records are structured to meet the initiative's exporter file requirements. Participation requires nomination by a national focal point.

Local-currency clearing between African markets without routing through USD.

Intra-African corridors already settle local-to-local through the PAPSS routing model, with the XOF (UEMOA) and ZAR zones settling 1:1. Direct participant access is obtained through a settlement bank.

Single primary source of customer due-diligence data on African entities for correspondent banks.

The corporate file (registry number, tax ID, directors, beneficial owners at 25%+, corporate documents, audit trail) is captured in the exact fields MANSA requires and can be exported for submission.

Secures ethical, traceable supply of lithium, cobalt, coltan and rare earths for the green transition.

Supply-chain batches carry an event-by-event chain of custody from mine site to shipment, each event signed by a verified entity.

Investment strategy funding sustainable value chains between Europe and Africa.

Corridor, treasury and ESG records are published in a form that can be attached to a Global Gateway project file. No funding has been granted.

Technical assistance and risk guarantees for critical raw material value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Escrow-backed settlement, an append-only ledger and per-market FX controls provide the transaction evidence a guarantee facility requires.

Blends private capital with green climate finance for African projects.

Green project listings record capital raised, use of proceeds and measured climate outcome, separated from operating funds.

Defines which economic activities count as environmentally sustainable.

Each tracked asset carries the ESG metrics below; an asset with an unmet mandatory metric cannot be presented as green.

International Money Transfer Operator / payment service

Payment service provider (enhanced)

Money remittance provider

Authorised Dealer with Limited Authority · FSP

Établissement de monnaie électronique / transfert de fonds

Remittance and foreign exchange services

Payment services / FX

Payment institution under PSD2

Authorised payment institution · MLR registration

Individual member (KYC)

Natural persons trading, transferring or investing for their own account.

• •Live in-app document scan of a passport, national ID, driving licence or residence permit.
• •AI extraction and cross-check against the details the member typed.
• •Human review for anything inconclusive — never auto-approved on low confidence.

Registered business (KYB)

Companies, cooperatives and licensed operators trading across borders under a legal entity.

• •Registry number, tax identification, country and date of incorporation captured as structured fields.
• •Register of directors and a declaration of every beneficial owner holding 25% or more.
• •Corporate documents (incorporation certificate, statutes, tax certificate, proof of address, bank mandate) collected against a fixed template.
• •Structural screening, then a compliance-officer decision recorded with the officer's identity and note.

Institutional counterparty

Funds, family offices and corporates deploying large-scale capital.

• •Verified entity file plus a named compliance contact on record.
• •Enterprise ticket tiering with risk scoring on every high-value movement.
• •Full append-only audit trail exportable for the counterparty's own diligence.

Cross-border trade security

Corporate counterparties trade under a verified registry number, not a nickname. Directors and beneficial owners are on file before an entity can settle at scale.

Local regulatory alignment

Each market has its own register entry naming the regulator and the exact regulated activity. Where a filing is not yet granted, the regulated service is not offered in that market — we publish the stage, not a claim.

Transparent fund protection

Balances and ledger entries move together in one atomic, row-locked operation, then are re-read and reconciled. Any balance can be reconstructed line by line from the ledger.

Settlement in local currency

PAPSS local-to-local routing plus the XOF and ZAR fixed-rate zones mean African businesses settle in their own currency without USD conversion exposure.

• •A live document scanner detects the document edges, crops it and rejects blurred or partial captures before upload.
• •An AI vision model reads the document, extracts the number, name, issuing country and expiry date, and compares them with what the member typed.
• •Documents that are unreadable, expired, mismatched or visibly altered are rejected automatically with a clear reason.
• •Anything the model cannot decide with high confidence is routed to a human reviewer in the admin queue — never auto-approved.
• •Documents from all 54 African countries and 19 European corridors are accepted.

• •Email/password authentication with server-verified sessions on every request.
• •Row-level security on every table: a member can only ever read or write their own wallet, transfers, listings and documents.
• •Administrative access sits behind a separate secret PIN gate with a signed, HTTP-only session cookie.
• •Identity documents live in a private storage bucket that is unreadable without an authorised session.

• •Verification is mandatory: unverified or suspended accounts cannot exchange, transfer or trade.
• •Balances and ledger entries move together in a single atomic, row-locked database operation — no partial debits.
• •Every posting is re-read and reconciled against the ledger; mismatches are logged for investigation.
• •High-value tickets trigger automated compliance checks against recent account activity and are written to an audit log.
• •Exchange rates are admin-approved server-side, so no price can be tampered with from the browser.