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

Earlybean is making it easy for children to learn how to bank. These kids get to have fun while becoming financially literate. Find out how Bloc is helping Earlybean transform the lives of children through digital banking.

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Bloc x Earlybean
FinTech

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

This article explores what it means to be payment agnostic and why you should consider it.

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Product

How BoundlessPay is solving a payment problem with Bloc

BoundlessPay has done over 300 million Naira in transactions and has leveraged Bloc to power these transactions. Find out how.

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Bloc x BoundlessPay
Product

How Wano Uses Bloc to Process Payments via WhatsApp

Wano is creating a remarkable payment solution for people, making it easy for anyone anywhere to make payments via WhatsApp. Find out how Bloc is powering this amazing solution

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Bloc x Wano
FinTech

Supercharge your business with multiple payment methods.

How do you maximize the checkout experience for customers to ensure the process is smooth and easy?

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FinTech

Never Miss a Sale again with Bloc Payments

Bloc ensures you never have to worry about payment failures. In this post we share how we make that happen.

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FinTech

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

This article gives a better understanding of how virtual cards work and whether they may be a good fit for your personal or business needs.

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FinTech

What are Virtual Bank Accounts and how do they work?

Virtual banking is on the rise in Africa, but how can you leverage virtual bank accounts for business growth?

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FinTech

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

In this article, we write about factors to consider when determining whether a payment method is worth adding to your stack and if now is the right time.

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FinTech

What is Payment Orchestration and Why Should You Care?

Until a few years ago, Payment Orchestration wasn’t a thing, at least not in the way we now understand it. In this article, you'll learn what Payment Orchestration is and how it benefits your business.

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FinTech

Start your Embedded Finance Journey with Bloc.

More companies are considering layering financial services on their current offerings and for good reason. In this article, we share how to get started with embedded finance.

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FinTech

Getting Ahead of Chargeback Fraud as a Business

Chargeback fraud ultimately leads to financial damage for both merchants and consumers. In this article, we breakdown what Chargeback fraud is and how to prevent it.

Read Article
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FinTech

5 Steps to Increase Checkout Conversions

Your checkout is your opportunity to give your customers a premium buying experience that keeps them coming back. In this post, we share 5 ways to do just that.

Read Article
Image shows a payment page with multiple payment method options: Pay with card, pay with bank transfer, pay with crypto and pay with USSD
FinTech

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

In this post, we break down bulk transfers, explore its use cases and discuss how businesses can ensure the safety of their transactions.

Read Article
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Product

NGN/USD Cards are now live in beta

You asked and we listened. Introducing Naira and Dollar Virtual Cards on the Bloc API!

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Product

Create Virtual Accounts for customers with Bloc

Bloc allows businesses to create and assign virtual accounts to their customers. In this post, we talk about what Bloc Accounts can do for your business.

Read Article
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Product

Bloc Transfers: Send money in seconds with Bloc

Read about what to expect when you use Bloc Transfers, as well as our latest update to the product, bulk transfers.

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FinTech

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

In this blog post, we explore the key differences between Embedded Finance and Banking as a Service, as well as their advantages, and potential future growth.

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Newsroom

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

Our Founder & CEO shares more on Bloc 2.0, our roadmap for the next quarter, our partnership with SMEDAN and reiterates our promise of best-in-class security systems.

Read Article
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Product

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

Introducing Bulk Transfers, dashboard performance improvements, increased reliability on the Bloc API and more.

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Bloc 2.01 - Updates to the Bloc Dashboard and API (March)
FinTech

Embedded Finance: The Future of Financial Services

‍In this article, we'll explore what embedded finance is, why it's important, and what the future holds for this innovative concept.

Read Article
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FinTech

5 Things to Consider when Building your African FinTech

FinTech startups are making waves across the world. They are disrupting traditional businesses and disrupting finance itself.

Read Article
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Product

Bloc completes Direct Integration with Airtel for its Bills Payment API

Our Bills Payment API allow you to sell airtime/data from any telecom provider (MTN, Airtel, 9Mobile & GLO), Cable TV and electricity from 9 out of 11 national discos to your customers.

Read Article
Bloc integrates with Airtel for its Bill Payments API
Newsroom

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

We are happy to announce that we (Bloc) have completed the direct integration of our Bills Payment API with MTN.

Read Article
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Newsroom

Bloc acquires Orchestrate, a payments orchestration startup

Announcing our acquisition of Orchestrate (previously Getwallets), a proprietary payments orchestration startup for African businesses.

Read Article
Bloc acquires Orchestrate (prev. Getwallets)
FinTech

How Do Nigerian Bank Transfers Work?

In Nigeria, sending money online typically takes less than 60 seconds. While the process looks seamless for the customer, a lot goes on in the background within those 60 seconds.

Read Article
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Product

Issuing Account Numbers with Bloc Virtual Accounts

Bloc Accounts is a fully licensed product that allows businesses to issue NDIC-insured NUBAN bank accounts to their customers...

Read Article
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FinTech

Embedding Digital Financial Services with Bloc

Bloc exists to serve customer-centric businesses while they build/scale their own products or business models.

Read Article
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Newsroom

Introducing Bloc Accounts

Introducing Bloc Accounts, a product of our Banking as a Service infrastructure suite that allows you to issue bank account numbers to your end customers instantly.

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Screenshot of the Bloc Accounts dashboard
Product

Getting Started with Bloc Bills Payment API

Bloc Bills Payment is an easy-to-integrate API product that helps software developers embed online bills payment natively into their products.

Read Article
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Newsroom

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

Bloc has entered into a strategic partnership with the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

Read Article
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FinTech

Payment Gateways: What Happens When You Make Online Payments

A quick guide to what happens when you make online payments through payment gateways.

Read Article
What Happens When You send Money through payment gateways cover image
FinTech

How Can FinTech Facilitate Financial Inclusion?

Beyond mobile money, FinTech has changed institutional payments and improved financial access to SMEs.

Read Article
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FinTech

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

‍The not-so-hidden secret of the financial sector.

Read Article
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FinTech

How FinTech can power a better user experience for HealthTech startups

How can FinTech help HealthTech startups power a better experience for customers?

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FinTech

Before You Start Building Your FinTech

Starting your FinTech? Here are some tips to hit the ground running with.

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Before you build your FinTech
Read opinions and facts about the financial infrastructure industry and our role in the market.
FinTech

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

This article explores what it means to be payment agnostic and why you should consider it.

Read Article
Image depicting multiple payment providers
FinTech

Supercharge your business with multiple payment methods.

How do you maximize the checkout experience for customers to ensure the process is smooth and easy?

Read Article
Image showing illustrations of multiple payment methods
FinTech

Never Miss a Sale again with Bloc Payments

Bloc ensures you never have to worry about payment failures. In this post we share how we make that happen.

Read Article
Image showing money flowing from one mobile phone to another
FinTech

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

This article gives a better understanding of how virtual cards work and whether they may be a good fit for your personal or business needs.

Read Article
image of virtual cards for online payments
FinTech

What are Virtual Bank Accounts and how do they work?

Virtual banking is on the rise in Africa, but how can you leverage virtual bank accounts for business growth?

Read Article
How do virtual bank accounts work image
FinTech

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

In this article, we write about factors to consider when determining whether a payment method is worth adding to your stack and if now is the right time.

Read Article
Image depicting how to add a new payment method
FinTech

What is Payment Orchestration and Why Should You Care?

Until a few years ago, Payment Orchestration wasn’t a thing, at least not in the way we now understand it. In this article, you'll learn what Payment Orchestration is and how it benefits your business.

Read Article
Image showing multiple payment service provider's logo
FinTech

Start your Embedded Finance Journey with Bloc.

More companies are considering layering financial services on their current offerings and for good reason. In this article, we share how to get started with embedded finance.

Read Article
Image depicting embedded finance
FinTech

Getting Ahead of Chargeback Fraud as a Business

Chargeback fraud ultimately leads to financial damage for both merchants and consumers. In this article, we breakdown what Chargeback fraud is and how to prevent it.

Read Article
Image depicting managing chargeback fraud
FinTech

5 Steps to Increase Checkout Conversions

Your checkout is your opportunity to give your customers a premium buying experience that keeps them coming back. In this post, we share 5 ways to do just that.

Read Article
Image shows a payment page with multiple payment method options: Pay with card, pay with bank transfer, pay with crypto and pay with USSD
FinTech

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

In this post, we break down bulk transfers, explore its use cases and discuss how businesses can ensure the safety of their transactions.

Read Article
Bulk Transfers Made Easy cover image
FinTech

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

In this blog post, we explore the key differences between Embedded Finance and Banking as a Service, as well as their advantages, and potential future growth.

Read Article
Embedded Finance vs. Banking as a Service: What's the Difference cover
FinTech

Embedded Finance: The Future of Financial Services

‍In this article, we'll explore what embedded finance is, why it's important, and what the future holds for this innovative concept.

Read Article
Embedded Finance, The Future of Financial Services cover image
FinTech

5 Things to Consider when Building your African FinTech

FinTech startups are making waves across the world. They are disrupting traditional businesses and disrupting finance itself.

Read Article
5 things to consider when building your African FinTech cover image
FinTech

How Do Nigerian Bank Transfers Work?

In Nigeria, sending money online typically takes less than 60 seconds. While the process looks seamless for the customer, a lot goes on in the background within those 60 seconds.

Read Article
How Do Nigerian Bank Transfers Work cover image
FinTech

Embedding Digital Financial Services with Bloc

Bloc exists to serve customer-centric businesses while they build/scale their own products or business models.

Read Article
Embedding Digital Financial Services with Bloc cover image
FinTech

Payment Gateways: What Happens When You Make Online Payments

A quick guide to what happens when you make online payments through payment gateways.

Read Article
What Happens When You send Money through payment gateways cover image
FinTech

How Can FinTech Facilitate Financial Inclusion?

Beyond mobile money, FinTech has changed institutional payments and improved financial access to SMEs.

Read Article
How Can FinTech Facilitate Financial Inclusion cover image
FinTech

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

‍The not-so-hidden secret of the financial sector.

Read Article
What FinTech, AI, and Blockchain Technology Have in Common cover image
FinTech

How FinTech can power a better user experience for HealthTech startups

How can FinTech help HealthTech startups power a better experience for customers?

Read Article
How FinTech can power a better user experience for HealthTech startups cover image
FinTech

Before You Start Building Your FinTech

Starting your FinTech? Here are some tips to hit the ground running with.

Read Article
Before you build your FinTech
Explore and learn how to use Bloc API & Dashboard for your unique use cases.
Product

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

Earlybean is making it easy for children to learn how to bank. These kids get to have fun while becoming financially literate. Find out how Bloc is helping Earlybean transform the lives of children through digital banking.

Read Article
Bloc x Earlybean
Product

How BoundlessPay is solving a payment problem with Bloc

BoundlessPay has done over 300 million Naira in transactions and has leveraged Bloc to power these transactions. Find out how.

Read Article
Bloc x BoundlessPay
Product

How Wano Uses Bloc to Process Payments via WhatsApp

Wano is creating a remarkable payment solution for people, making it easy for anyone anywhere to make payments via WhatsApp. Find out how Bloc is powering this amazing solution

Read Article
Bloc x Wano
Product

NGN/USD Cards are now live in beta

You asked and we listened. Introducing Naira and Dollar Virtual Cards on the Bloc API!

Read Article
cover image of Bloc NGN/USD Cards
Product

Create Virtual Accounts for customers with Bloc

Bloc allows businesses to create and assign virtual accounts to their customers. In this post, we talk about what Bloc Accounts can do for your business.

Read Article
Bloc accounts cover image
Product

Bloc Transfers: Send money in seconds with Bloc

Read about what to expect when you use Bloc Transfers, as well as our latest update to the product, bulk transfers.

Read Article
Bloc Transfers cover image
Product

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

Introducing Bulk Transfers, dashboard performance improvements, increased reliability on the Bloc API and more.

Read Article
Bloc 2.01 - Updates to the Bloc Dashboard and API (March)
Product

Bloc completes Direct Integration with Airtel for its Bills Payment API

Our Bills Payment API allow you to sell airtime/data from any telecom provider (MTN, Airtel, 9Mobile & GLO), Cable TV and electricity from 9 out of 11 national discos to your customers.

Read Article
Bloc integrates with Airtel for its Bill Payments API
Product

Issuing Account Numbers with Bloc Virtual Accounts

Bloc Accounts is a fully licensed product that allows businesses to issue NDIC-insured NUBAN bank accounts to their customers...

Read Article
Issuing Account Numbers with Bloc Virtual Accounts cover image
Product

Getting Started with Bloc Bills Payment API

Bloc Bills Payment is an easy-to-integrate API product that helps software developers embed online bills payment natively into their products.

Read Article
Getting Started with Bloc Bills Payment API cover image
News, press releases and major announcements from Bloc HQ. Contact hello@blochq.io for more information.
A note from Bloc's founder cover image
Newsroom

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

Our Founder & CEO shares more on Bloc 2.0, our roadmap for the next quarter, our partnership with SMEDAN and reiterates our promise of best-in-class security systems.

Read Article
Bloc integrates MTN cover image
Newsroom

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

We are happy to announce that we (Bloc) have completed the direct integration of our Bills Payment API with MTN.

Read Article
Bloc acquires Orchestrate (prev. Getwallets)
Newsroom

Bloc acquires Orchestrate, a payments orchestration startup

Announcing our acquisition of Orchestrate (previously Getwallets), a proprietary payments orchestration startup for African businesses.

Read Article
Screenshot of the Bloc Accounts dashboard
Newsroom

Introducing Bloc Accounts

Introducing Bloc Accounts, a product of our Banking as a Service infrastructure suite that allows you to issue bank account numbers to your end customers instantly.

Read Article
Bloc announces Strategic Partnership with SMEDAN cover.
Newsroom

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

Bloc has entered into a strategic partnership with the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN).

Read Article
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