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For banks and fintechs whose customers expect more than an SMS.

Onboarding drop-off, dormant accounts, cross-sell that feels like spam, and POPIA watching over all of it. Here's how banks, lenders, insurers and fintechs across Africa use engagement, analytics and customer data to do better.

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THE PROBLEM

What gets in the way

01

Onboarding leaks

People start an application and never finish. KYC steps, document uploads and OTPs all lose people, and nobody can see exactly where.

02

Dormant accounts

Customers open an account or install the app, use it once and go quiet. Winning them back costs more than keeping them would have.

03

Cross-sell that feels like spam

Every product team sends its own offers to the same people. Customers tune out, and the offers that would actually help get ignored.

04

One customer, five systems

Core banking, the app, the call centre and marketing all hold a different version of the same person.

05

Compliance slows everything

Every campaign waits for sign-off because nobody is sure what consent the data carries.

WHERE WE HELP

Where we help

01

Onboarding that finishes

Product analytics shows exactly where applications stall, and engagement journeys bring people back at the step they left.

02

Lifecycle engagement

Timely, personal messages across app, email, SMS and WhatsApp, triggered by what customers do, not by the campaign calendar.

03

One view of the customer

A customer data platform that joins your systems, so every team works from the same profile and the same consent.

04

Acquisition you can measure

Attribution that shows which campaigns bring customers who stay and transact, not just installs.

05

Dashboards for the business

BI that gives leadership one view of growth, risk and engagement.

PLATFORMS WE'D CONSIDER

The platforms we'd look at first.

Partners we'd look at first for financial services. Which one fits depends on your stack and your team.

Amplitude logoProduct Analytics

Purpose-built product analytics. Funnels, retention, cohort analysis, feature adoption, for product and growth teams that need answers without filing a ticket. Designed to sit alongside GA4, not replace it.

Best forProduct and growth teams making roadmap decisions on instinct because GA4 can't keep up.
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Amperity logoEnterprise CDP

Enterprise customer data platform with AI-driven identity resolution. Amperity stitches messy first-party data from every system into one accurate, always-fresh customer profile. That gives your engagement and BI tools a golden record they can trust.

Best forEnterprises with customer data fragmented across many systems and no reliable single view of the customer.
More on Amperity →
OneSignal logoMid-market CEP · Push-first

The fast, developer-friendly step up from Firebase. Best-in-class push performance alongside email, SMS, and in-app from a single platform. It takes days to implement, the pricing is predictable and your marketers can run it themselves.

Best forScaling apps and lean teams that need speed to value and predictable cost.
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InsiderOne logoCEP + AI Personalisation + CDP

AI-native cross-channel engagement, Insider One AI adds predictive and agentic intelligence, plus a built-in CDP and deep on-site personalisation, across 12+ channels including WhatsApp and site search. Strongest in retail, e-commerce, and travel, where the website experience matters as much as the message.

Best forCompanies where website experience, AI-driven personalisation, and customer comms must work as one: retail, e-commerce, travel.
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AppsFlyer logoMMP

Market-leading mobile measurement partner. A neutral measurement layer above Meta, Google, TikTok, ASA and beyond, with Protect360 fraud protection and OneLink deep linking built in. Privacy-preserving framework built for iOS/Android post-IDFA.

Best forApps running paid acquisition at scale across multiple channels, especially where fraud is a concern.
More on AppsFlyer →
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WORTH KNOWING

POPIA, built in

Financial services carry a heavy compliance load. We set platforms up with consent, retention and access controls from day one, and keep transfers of customer data outside South Africa documented. We're not your lawyers, but we make your lawyers' job easier.

FAQS

The questions people ask us first.

Can these platforms meet our security requirements?

That depends on your requirements and the platform. We help you put the right questions to each vendor and check their answers against your policies before you sign.

Where would our customer data be stored?

Many of these platforms host outside South Africa, often in the EU or the US. That's allowed under POPIA if it's handled properly, and it's one of the first things we check with you.

We're a small fintech. Is this overkill?

Not if it is sized right. Several of these tools have free or entry plans, and starting small with good tracking beats a big platform nobody uses.

Where do we start?

Usually with one problem worth solving and the data you need to measure it. Platforms come after that, not before.

Get connected

Talk to us about your customers.

Tell us what you're trying to fix: onboarding, dormancy, cross-sell or something else. We'll tell you honestly where to start.

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