Notes on onboarding the next billion

Category: Dealers

Breakthroughs in affordability unleash smartphone growth in Africa

Innovative technologies like the PayJoy Lock are likely to lead to the next smartphone boom on the continent. The last few years have been tough for smartphone shipments in Africa. However, according to the most recent figures announced by International Data Corporation (IDC) in 2018, Africa experienced year-on-year growth in…

A Covid-19 Vaccine (for Lenders)

By Gib Lopez, Co-Founder and COO and Camila Perez Aloi, Senior Risk Manager When we started PayJoy five years ago, our theory was that we could unstick the credit ecosystem by providing customers with little or no access to credit with collateral in the form of smartphones and giving lenders…

PayJoy’s commitment to consumer privacy

By Jaideep Mirchandani, Chief Product Officer In previous PayJoy blog posts, we highlighted the problem of lending to the underbanked and how PayJoy technologies are helping to solve this problem. Core technologies like the PayJoy Lock and Score enable our partners to reach underserved consumers by solving the collateral and…

Breakthroughs in affordability unleash smartphone growth in Africa

Innovative technologies like the PayJoy Lock are likely to lead to the next smartphone boom on the continent. The last few years have been tough for smartphone shipments in Africa. However, according to the most recent figures announced by International Data Corporation (IDC) in 2018, Africa experienced year-on-year growth in…