Dakar, July, 6th 2021 – InTouch, an African payment solutions and digital services aggregator founded in Senegal in 2014, announced today a strategic partnership with CFAO Group. The move comes as part of a capital increase through which CFAO will co-invest in Touch with Mobility54, a corporate venture capital fund created in partnership with Toyota Tsusho Corporation in 2019 to focus on Africa’s mobility sector

Established InTouch investors TotalEnergies and Worldline have also reiterated their commitment to the Pan-African start-up.

InTouch is a leading provider of payment and digital services distribution systems across Africa. The company aims to make financial services available to as many people as possible across the continent, and has developed a solution that offers over 230 digital services such as mobile money, agency banking, money transfers, airtime top-ups, and acceptance of all the payment methods available in the countries in which InTouch operates (mobile money, credit and debit cards, vouchers, digital cash, etc.) through a single platform available as an Android app, web interface or API. The fintech, which is present in 10 countries, now has over 30,000 merchant customers and 1,000 corporate customers, and offers its services through 1,200 TotalEnergies service stations. InTouch has over 250 employees, and is aiming to roll out its solutions in five more countries by the end of 2021, taking the total to 21 by 2024.

CFAO’s investment reflects its drive to actively develop Africa’s digital payments industry. The Group aims to help InTouch grow to become the leader in the sector. CFAO’s long-standing presence in 38 African countries will also empower InTouch to extend its reach in the region.

InTouch founder Omar Cissé said: “We are very proud to team up with CFAO Group on this amazing adventure. This should significantly strengthen our presence and help make InTouch a key player in payments throughout Africa.”

Richard Bielle, CFAO Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer added: “The rapid growth of African economies and acceleration in the transformation will largely rely on financial inclusion. Since its inception, InTouch has been actively involved in this formative change for the continent. CFAO Group is delighted to join forces with two key players like TotalEnergies and Worldline in helping InTouch and its management team pursue their business development across Africa.”

For Gilles Grapinet, Worldline’s Chairman and Chief Executive Office: “As a financial and industrial partner of InTouch since 2017, Worldline, Europe’s leading payment services provider, is deeply committed to working alongside Omar Cissé and his staff to help him to fully realise the vision of this remarkable fintech, which intends to bring a unique payment acceptance solution to Africa. This is why we are also particularly pleased to welcome CFAO Group as a new strategic partner to support the growth of InTouch and to boost its development across the continent.”

Stanislas Mittelman, Head of Africa, Marketing & Services at TotalEnergies added: “We are pleased that CFAO, one of our major partners in Africa, is also joining the InTouch adventure. We continue to roll out the InTouch solution, which is very popular with our customers, to our service stations on the continent.”

About InTouch

InTouch is a pan-African fintech founded in 2014, specialising in payment and digital services aggregation. InTouch offers a universal solution that enables its users to accept all payment methods and to offer a broad range of services via a single terminal (smartphone, computer or website, etc.). The Touch platform is currently used in 10 countries at over 1,200 TotalEnergies service stations and more than 30,000 independent sales outlets called TouchPoint. The company has over 250 employees in Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Guinea Conakry, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa. This expansion, which is set to continue as new countries are added, has broadened access to payments for an African population that is still largely unbanked, and at the same time helped merchants to develop their businesses thanks to the additional revenue generated by the distribution of digital services.
Please visit www.intouchgroup.net for further information.

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