Corporate Why Itai Chose to Work with Okra After a great engineering career at Rapyd, a global payments network, Itai Hirsch joined Okra. He shares why he chose to work with Okra in this article.
Product Spending Patterns: Insights into User Spending Data The Spending Patterns product provides detailed insights into a user's spending data via user consent, which helps businesses make smarter decisions.
Engineering Assets and Liabilities: A Tool for Wealth Management The Assets and Liabilities products use transaction lines to understand end-users' investments and personal assets, and the returns on those investments.
Product Selfie Verification: An Extra Security Layer for Fintechs By leveraging the social feature of selfies, this verification method helps verify ownership of IDs during a validation process.
Product Okra Product Update: November 2021 Our November product update includes expanded identity coverage, ISO certification, bulk payments, recent blog posts, open positions and more.
Product Complete View: A Picture into Users' Financial Accounts By providing a full picture of customers with multiple financial accounts, Okra's Complete View helps businesses make more informed decisions.
Corporate Why African Banks and Fintechs Need Open Finance to Scale David Peterside—co-founder and COO at Okra—was interviewed by The Paypers for the 2021 Open Banking Report. This article summarises insights from the chat.
Product How Okra Drives Faster Conversions from Returning Users Returning user experience makes it faster for customers who have used Okra in the past to share their financial information with new businesses.
Corporate This Product Manager left Google to Join Okra Adesola joined Okra from Google to lead on building out an ambitious product. She says the Okra culture and vision made her choice easier.
Product Okra Product Update: October 2021 What's new? Enhanced multi-app experienceTo reduce end-user confusion when navigating the bank selection on the widget, we've added a specific component that will appear when the user selects a multi-app bank. For example: When selecting GT Bank for mobile, the user will be prompted to select either GT Bank mobile
Corporate Wealthtechs: Why Open Finance is your Competitive Advantage Our APIs help wealthtechs offer tailored advisory and much more to build personalised experiences that retain high-value customers.
Customer Stories How Patricia Drives Onboarding Success with Okra Patricia offers fast and reliable onboarding with a 98% success rate through Okra's Identity APIs. Learn how this has helped their growth.
Engineering How Income Verification Works The Okra Income product uses advanced pattern matching and machine learning algorithms to identify income streams, their sources, and length, as well as anticipate the number of recurrences.
Customer Stories How Glover avoids User Churn with Okra's Identity APIs Glover, an e-commerce platform, faced user churn during signups due to unreliable identity verification processes. Here's how we helped.
Corporate 🎉 New: We Just Launched A Faster Widget Now you get access to customers' financial information in as low as 3 seconds to quickly build and offer financial products!
Product Okra Product Update: September 2021 Our September product update includes the new Okra widget, new integrations, recent blog posts, open positions and more...
Corporate Data Protection: How Okra Protects Your Customers' Financial Data Identity fraud scams cost companies and their customers a lot of money! Here's a primer on how we prevent such scams for African companies.
Customer Stories Umba is Building an Inclusive Digital Bank with Okra African digital banks like Umba face hurdles with onboarding and credit risk analyses. However, with Okra APIs, Umba is scaling seamlessly.
Product Okra Product Update: August 2021 Our August product update includes new identity functionality, payments management features, new open positions and more...
Engineering How to Build a KYC Feature with Okra Onboard your customers faster and cut down on customer churn with Okra Identity. It powers KYC integrations that verify customers within seconds.
Corporate How to Build Finance Widgets —with Zero Code A quick guide on integrating Okra's widget. This gives you access to the financial data of your customers in minutes!
Engineering Understanding How Webhooks Work Webhooks serve as doormen to API calls. They provide all you need to know about a request by an API in real-time. More details are in this guide.
Engineering Building an End to End Microlending System using Okra Microlending refers to modest loans made to individuals (typically without collateral) to help kickstart a venture or pay bills. Assume Mr. A is a retailer of household goods who needs to replenish his store. As a solo entrepreneur, he lacks collateral to obtain the financing he needs. His poor financial
Product Okra Product Update: July 2021 Our July product update includes new blog updates, API reference guide, new open positions and more...
Corporate What are APIs? APIs are similar to bridges. They serve as intermediaries between two or more applications. This plain English guide explains them in detail.
