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How Okra Powers WealthTech

With Okra's Open Finance platform, you have the ability to accelerate customer onboarding, deliver truly customized experiences, and help more Africans achieve financial wellness. Okra can power the growth of wealthtech in Africa to the next level.

Engineering

Getting Started with Okra’s Bulk BVN Verification API

Use Okra bulk BVN API to retrieve up to BVNs simultaneously in a single request.

Engineering

Data Synchronization with Okra

Learn how Okra enables data synchronization to help you provide seamless open finance experiences for your users.

Product

5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Better Identity Verification

Okra Identity plays a critical role in ensuring identity verification processes are quick and efficient.

Company

Why Eniola Chose to Work with Okra

Eniola Olatunde shares why she chose to join Okra after working as a relationship manager at a traditional financial institution.

Company

Why Tunde Chose to Work with Okra

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

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.

Engineering

How to Integrate Okra in Your Android App

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

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.

Company

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.

Company

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.

Engineering

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.

Product

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.

Product

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.

Company

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.

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.

🎉 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.

Company

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.

Company

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.

Company

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.