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Okra Product Update: May 2022

Okra Product Update: May 2022

Our May product update includes dashboard updates, SDK optimizations, new endpoints, and more.

  • Mike McMillan
Mike McMillan May 17, 2022 • 3 min read
Why Tunde Chose to Work with Okra
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Why Tunde Chose to Work with Okra

Olatunde Garuba shares why he chose to join Okra after working at several companies global companies like Andela, YellowHammer, TheMuse, etc.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha May 13, 2022 • 2 min read
Introducing Okra's Python SDK
Engineering

Introducing Okra's Python SDK

Learn how to use Okra's new Python SDK to build any fintech idea you have. This article covers how to authenticate a customer's bank account and check real-time account balance using Python.

  • Blessing Krofegha
  • Kosisochukwu Nzeako
Blessing Krofegha, Kosisochukwu Nzeako May 6, 2022 • 2 min read
Okra has a new look 🎉
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Okra has a new look 🎉

Our mission at Okra is to digitize financial services for Africa. We enable developers to build digital financial platforms and services.

  • Mike McMillan
Mike McMillan Apr 19, 2022 • 2 min read
How to Integrate Okra in Your Android App
Engineering

How to Integrate Okra in Your Android App

Okra’s upgraded Android SDK helps you build great fintech android apps.

  • Blessing Krofegha
  • Kosisochukwu Nzeako
Blessing Krofegha, Kosisochukwu Nzeako Apr 4, 2022 • 2 min read
How to Integrate Okra in Your Flutter App
Engineering

How to Integrate Okra in Your Flutter App

Okra’s upgraded Flutter SDK helps you build great open finance apps that work seamlessly across multiple operating systems.

  • Blessing Krofegha
  • Kosisochukwu Nzeako
Blessing Krofegha, Kosisochukwu Nzeako Mar 29, 2022 • 3 min read
Open Finance: More than just Loans
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Open Finance: More than just Loans

Open finance effectively began a revolution in the financial system, allowing businesses and developers to create innovative services and solutions, building on the information held by banks.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Mar 10, 2022 • 3 min read
Why Dayo Chose to Work with Okra
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Why Dayo Chose to Work with Okra

Dayo Fasan shares why she chose to join Okra after working at several companies across Insurance, Information Technology, and Asset Management.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Mar 8, 2022 • 2 min read
Okra Product Update: March 2022
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Okra Product Update: March 2022

Our March product update includes an improved docs structure, new default widget view, bank optimizations, open positions, and more.

  • Adesola Sanusi
Adesola Sanusi Mar 3, 2022 • 2 min read
How to Integrate Okra in Your React Native App
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How to Integrate Okra in Your React Native App

Okra upgraded React Native SDK, which has support for both React Native CLI and Expo projects, makes building cross-platform open finance apps seamless.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Feb 17, 2022 • 2 min read
Okra Product Update: February 2022
Product

Okra Product Update: February 2022

In January, we updated our React Native SDK, improved transactions, introduced quick payments, completed bank optimizations and more.

  • Mike McMillan
Mike McMillan Feb 14, 2022 • 2 min read
Balance: Leverage Data to Prevent NSFs
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Balance: Leverage Data to Prevent NSFs

Businesses can use Okra Balance to retrieve the real-time balance of their customers' accounts to build relevant products and services.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Feb 9, 2022 • 3 min read
Transactions: Extract Value from Financial Data
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Transactions: Extract Value from Financial Data

Connectivity to raw data alone does not present much value, except when it is cleaned up and organized. Okra Transactions helps businesses retrieve meaningful information from their users' financial data to build great products.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Feb 4, 2022 • 3 min read
Why Deepak Chose to Work with Okra
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Why Deepak Chose to Work with Okra

Deepak Mali shares why he chose to work with Okra after building great products at Finicity, A Mastercard Company, and Reliance Jio.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Feb 2, 2022 • 2 min read
How Okra Helps End Users Control their Data

How Okra Helps End Users Control their Data

Okra allows you to control the financial information you provide to banks and fintechs. Here's how it works.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Jan 17, 2022 • 3 min read
Okra 2022 Preview
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Okra 2022 Preview

With more on Payments, USSD and incremental improvements on existing products, 2022 will be an exciting year for Okra!

  • Adesola Sanusi
Adesola Sanusi Jan 11, 2022 • 2 min read
Best of Okra '21

Best of Okra '21

From Africa’s fastest open finance widget to exciting fraud prevention features like selfie verification, this year was exciting at Okra.

  • Mike McMillan
Mike McMillan Dec 20, 2021 • 3 min read
🎉 Introducing Okra Lite: Flexible Pricing for Early-Stage Startups

🎉 Introducing Okra Lite: Flexible Pricing for Early-Stage Startups

With an offering of discounted pricing, Okra Lite is the best way to access financial information as an early-stage startup. See how to apply.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Dec 8, 2021 • 2 min read
Why Itai Chose to Work with Okra
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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.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Nov 26, 2021 • 2 min read
Spending Patterns: Insights into  User Spending Data
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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.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Nov 23, 2021 • 3 min read
Assets and Liabilities: A Tool for Wealth Management
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.

  • Chidera Mosanya
  • Blessing Krofegha
Chidera Mosanya, Blessing Krofegha Nov 19, 2021 • 5 min read
Selfie Verification: An Extra Security Layer for Fintechs
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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.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Nov 15, 2021 • 3 min read
Okra Product Update: November 2021
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Okra Product Update: November 2021

Our November product update includes expanded identity coverage, ISO certification, bulk payments, recent blog posts, open positions and more.

  • Adesola Sanusi
Adesola Sanusi Nov 10, 2021 • 3 min read
Complete View: A Picture into Users' Financial Accounts
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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.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Nov 1, 2021 • 3 min read
Why African Banks and Fintechs Need Open Finance to Scale
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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.

  • Blessing Krofegha
Blessing Krofegha Oct 27, 2021 • 2 min read
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