Resources

Field-tested playbooks, research and tools for banking and payments leaders.

Everything we publish comes out of live engagements with banks, fintechs and public institutions across Central Africa. Free to read, download and share with your team.

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The State Of Digital Payments In Central Africa — 2026 Outlook.

A 48-page deep dive on rails, regulation, merchant adoption and the operators shaping the next wave of digital payments across CEMAC. Includes benchmarks, market sizing and a five-year forecast.

Library

Playbooks, reports and toolkits.

Practical, opinionated material — written by the same practitioners who run our advisory engagements.

Launching An Agency Banking Network: An Operator's Playbook.

The commissions, liquidity model, KYC design and tech stack decisions that determine whether an agent channel scales — or stalls.

Core Banking Migration Benchmarks — What Good Looks Like.

Timeline, cost and risk benchmarks drawn from twelve migrations across commercial banks and microfinance institutions.

AML / CFT Program Maturity Model For African Banks.

A five-level maturity model with the controls, tooling and governance to move from checkbox compliance to genuine detection.

Open APIs And The Future Of Banking Distribution.

How platform, product and partnership work — not regulation — will decide who wins the open-banking transition.

Vendor Selection Toolkit: RFP Templates And Scoring Rubrics.

The exact templates our advisory team uses to run objective, defensible core-banking and payments selections.

How A Tier-2 Bank Cut Settlement Times From 48h To 90 Seconds.

The architecture change, the rollout sequence and the operational controls that made same-day settlement routine.

Webinars & talks

Live sessions and on-demand recordings.

Upcoming · Aug 14

48 min

Modernising core banking without freezing the roadmap.

On-demand

48 min

Building an AML program regulators actually respect.

On-demand

48 min

QR payments at scale — merchant, agent and consumer economics.

Interactive tools

Self-serve tools built from our engagement work.

Core banking readiness assessment

We map your operations, systems, and constraints — and align on the outcomes that matter.

Payments TCO calculator

Model the true cost of running your payments stack — processing, ops, reconciliation, disputes and float.

AML control library

A searchable library of 140+ AML/CFT controls mapped to CEMAC and FATF expectations.

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