Company Year In Review: 2022 We’re coming to a close for 2022! We have many memorable moments throughout the year. Read this quick recap of our year in our quest to connect a billion Africans to the global economy.
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.
Company 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Company 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.
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.
Company 🎉 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!
Company 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.
Company 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.
Company 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.
Company Beyond Open Banking: How Okra is Digitizing Finance for Africa. At the basic level, people view open banking as the ability to connect your bank account with a trusted third party. That’s not wrong, it’s just basic. The real juice is what happens with that connection.
Company Okra secures $3.5M Seed Round Led by Susa Ventures Accenture Ventures joins Seed Round lead Susa Ventures, to invest in and expand Okra’s data infrastructure across Nigeria.