The Bloc Blog

Here’s what you’ll find here — thoughts and opinions about financial services, updates from the team, and tips and tricks of the trade (business).

Product updates

September 22, 2023

Bloc 2.0B: Introducing Changes to the Dashboard.

August 31, 2023

We built the bank we needed. And I wished it was the bank I had.

How to Design a Better User Onboarding Process.

September 11, 2023

Online Utility Bill Payment in Nigeria: Closing the Inequality and Financial Inclusion Gap.

Product updates

Bloc is Helping Pay4Me App Make International Schooling Easier.

Product updates

Digital Banking for Kids: How Earlybean Leverages Bloc to Provide Financial Tools and Literacy for Children

Payment Providers Should Work for Your Business, Not the Other way Around.

Product updates

How BoundlessPay is solving a payment problem with Bloc

Product updates

How Wano Uses Bloc to Process Payments via WhatsApp

Supercharge your business with multiple payment methods.

Bloc Checkout: Never Miss a Sale again with Bloc.

Virtual Cards for Online Payments: A Convenient and Secure Way to Manage Online Transactions

What are Virtual Bank Accounts and how do they work?

What to Consider Before Adding a New Payment Method to Your Business.

August 11, 2023

What is Payment Orchestration and Why Should You Care?

Start your Embedded Finance Journey with Bloc.

August 21, 2023

Getting Ahead of Chargeback Fraud as a Business

5 Steps to Increase Checkout Conversions

Bulk Transfers Made Easy: Examples, Benefits, and Best Practices.

Product updates

NGN/USD Cards are now live in beta

Product updates

Create Virtual Accounts for customers with Bloc

Product updates

Bloc Transfers: Send money in seconds with Bloc

Embedded Finance vs. Banking as a Service: What's the Difference?

CEO’s note: Bloc in last quarter, and what’s next for us

Product updates

Bloc 2.01: Improved KYC & Security, Introducing Bulk Transfers, and more

Embedded Finance: The Future of Financial Services

5 Things to Consider when Building your African FinTech

Product updates

Bloc completes Direct Integration with Airtel for its Bills Payment API

Bloc partners with MTN to improve its Bills Payment API for customers

Bloc acquires Orchestrate, a payments orchestration startup

How Do Nigerian Bank Transfers Work?

Product updates

Issuing Account Numbers with Bloc Virtual Accounts

Embedding Digital Financial Services with Bloc

Introducing Bloc Accounts

Product updates

Getting Started with Bloc Bills Payment API

Bloc announces Strategic Partnership with the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

Payment Gateways: What Happens When You Make Online Payments

How Can FinTech Facilitate Financial Inclusion?

What Do FinTech, AI, and Blockchain Technology Have in Common?

How FinTech can power a better user experience for HealthTech startups

Before You Start Building Your FinTech