Tala Competitors

PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served nearly 20 million customers and lent nearly $4B across 9 countries while achieving solid profitability and growth.

M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphone and e-motorbike financing and smartphone embedded digital financial services. With operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda, the company has extended over $2 billion in credit to more than 7 million customers. Using an innovative financing model based on daily repayments, M-KOPA provides affordable smartphones embedded with financial services that fit with the cash flow of millions of Every Day Earners who earn their income daily. By leveraging rich payments data and proprietary AI-driven analytics, M-KOPA builds a credit record for each customer, which forms the foundation for a long-term financial relationship for digital loans, affordable data subscriptions, and insurance. The company employs over 3,000 staff and 30,000 sales agents across its African markets. M-KOPA has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies for the past 4 years, twcice recognised as one of the world's top fintechs by CNBC for its impact and growth in financial inclusion, and named twice by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies globally.

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. Our goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike. In our key market; Nigeria, FairMoney is currently the Most downloaded fintech app in Nigeria with over 10 million downloads and the #1 digital bank in Nigeria. FairMoney offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans 24/7, investment products, savings, payments, and cards directly via its mobile app. We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 6 million users. We're backed by international investors and have raised a total of $89.9M in funding, to support our development. FairMoney is unique thanks to its international exposure (with offices on 3 continents) and its impact-driven mission: we bring financial inclusion to underbanked people in emerging markets! We are a team of close to 600 people, and for most of the positions, it's possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bangalore, Lagos, and Riga. We value candidates who embrace our company values: • Growth Mindset – We believe in the power of a Growth Mindset, not fixed or static. • Big Plans, Bigger Ambitions - We make big plans, and have even Bigger Ambitions. We are here to build massive scale and drive the fintech revolution across Africa. • Talent has no passport - We believe that Talent Has No Passport. While opportunity may not be evenly distributed across the world, talent is. • Start with the Client – We Empathize with our users to optimize our impact. Many of us don’t live where our customers do - we must go in-depth to understand their pain points. Discover our other values during your discussions with the team. https://apply.workable.com/fairmoney/?lng=en