Cape Town, South Africa, October 13: MoneyHash, a leading payment orchestration platform operating across emerging and global markets, has announced a new partnership with Ozow, a prominent South African fintech and payments provider. The agreement aims to expand access to local online payment methods in South Africa through MoneyHash's unified payment infrastructure. Businesses using MoneyHash will be able to connect to Ozow through their existing integration, reducing the need for separate technical work.
Expanding Local Payment Access
South Africa has developed one of the continent's most sophisticated digital payments markets, with businesses increasingly seeking alternatives to traditional card payments. As online payment methods multiply, companies often manage multiple providers, technical integrations, reporting systems, and operational processes. Payment orchestration helps simplify this complexity by allowing merchants to connect to and manage different providers and payment methods through one infrastructure.
Market Complexity and Orchestration
Hwan Lee, Regional Director for Africa at MoneyHash, highlighted the opportunity for orchestration to connect strong local payment infrastructure with businesses looking to grow in South Africa and across the continent. "Having worked within South Africa's payments ecosystem, I've seen both how quickly the market has evolved and the complexity businesses face as they scale their payment operations," Lee said. He added that the partnership would help MoneyHash deepen its presence in the region.
A Trusted Local Provider
Ozow marks 12 years in South Africa's digital payments market, bringing more than a decade of experience to the partnership. The company offers businesses access to pay by bank, card payments, Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay, along with instant payouts, voucher payments, and pay by crypto. Integrating an established local provider such as Ozow strengthens the range of payment methods available to businesses in South Africa through MoneyHash.
Executive Perspective
Catherine Korsten, Chief Growth Officer at Ozow, said the partnership creates another avenue for merchants to access Ozow while reducing the complexity of integrating and managing multiple payment solutions. "Over the past 12 years, we've seen South Africa's digital payments landscape evolve significantly, alongside growing demand from businesses for simpler and more flexible ways to accept payments," Korsten said. The collaboration aligns with Ozow's focus on supporting merchant flexibility.
Deepening African Infrastructure
For MoneyHash, the partnership forms part of a broader strategy to deepen its payment infrastructure across Africa by integrating established local payment providers. The announcement also follows MoneyHash's appointment of Hwan Lee as Regional Director for Africa. Lee previously held a leadership role at Ozow, bringing first-hand knowledge of the South African payments ecosystem to the company's regional expansion.
Operational Benefits for Merchants
As businesses grow in South Africa and across markets, managing connections with different payment gateways and local providers can place increasing demands on technical and operational teams. MoneyHash centralizes capabilities such as routing, transaction management, and reporting, giving merchants a unified way to manage their payment infrastructure as they scale. For global merchants, this provides a more efficient route to local payment infrastructure, while South African businesses gain greater flexibility to manage multiple payment gateways and processors.
The partnership between MoneyHash and Ozow illustrates how payment orchestration can connect global infrastructure with relevant local providers and payment methods available in South Africa. By reducing integration complexity and centralizing payment operations, the collaboration supports merchants seeking to scale efficiently in the region. It marks another step in MoneyHash's efforts to make expansion across African markets easier without adding the same level of operational complexity.