Notes on onboarding the next billion

May 23rd marks Customer Day at PayJoy; a day to celebrate our very first customer, Javier, and reaffirm our commitment to our mission: to empower the next billion customers to access the modern financial system and improve their lives! We first met Javier in 2015 when he approached PayJoy to…

Source: https://fpm.climatepartner.com/tracking/project/details/18719-2204-1001/1461/en In 2022 PayJoy committed to running carbon-neutral by funding carbon offset projects in countries where we operate.  For 2024, we are delighted to announce we are funding a forest protection project in Cujubim, Brazil through ClimatePartner. Learn more about this project What is the project about? The project empowers farmers through…

PayJoy: A Mission-driven Public Benefit Corporation PayJoy provides responsible consumer credit to underserved individuals in emerging markets. As a Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to responsible lending, we ensure that we are having a positive impact on our customers’ financial well being, which we track by monitoring that most of our…

At PayJoy, we are proud to announce that we have made a significant effort to offset our carbon footprint from 2022 by investing in a wind energy project in South Africa, one of the countries where we operate, through our ongoing partnership with ClimatePartner.  As a socially responsible company, PayJoy…

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…

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…