09 October 2025, London, UK. Freemarket, the award-winning provider of cross-border payment and FX solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Cauridor, a leading fintech enabling mobile money and local payment rails across Africa. The collaboration will deliver faster, more efficient payment flows for money service businesses (MSBs) and their customers, improving access to one of the world’s fastest-growing remittance corridors.
Cauridor plays a vital role in Africa’s financial ecosystem by connecting mobile network operators, mobile wallets, fintechs and banks to enable real-time transactions. The company helps MSBs and other financial institutions manage their treasury, streamline collections, and move funds in and out of key African markets.
Previously, Cauridor experienced delays in receiving settlement funds from its global partners across its markets in West Africa. Likewise, collecting funds from local corporate partners in its key markets — Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the UEMOA region — and transferring those funds abroad posed challenges. By leveraging Freemarket’s infrastructure, Cauridor can now collect funds locally and seamlessly settle them into global markets, delivering greater speed, resilience, and cost efficiency for its clients.
“Our mission is to simplify access to hard-to-reach markets, and our partnership with Cauridor demonstrates the value of combining strong local payment rails with Freemarket’s global infrastructure,” said Andy Lyons, Chief Growth Officer at Freemarket. “Together, we’re creating more resilient cross-border payment pathways that help MSBs serve their customers better.”
For Cauridor, onboarding with Freemarket was fast and seamless. This quick time-to-value means Cauridor’s MSB partners can immediately benefit from more efficient collections and smoother international payment flows.
“Working with Freemarket has transformed how we manage cross-border collections and payments,” said Cauridor CEO, Oumar Barry. “Our partners now enjoy a simpler, faster and more transparent way to move funds between Africa and the rest of the world. It’s a huge step forward for financial inclusion and efficiency in the region, both of which are at the heart of our mission.”
The partnership highlights the growing importance of collaboration between fintechs, mobile money operators and global payment providers in meeting demand for real-time, reliable cross-border transactions.
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Founded in 2022, Cauridor is a US-based fintech company specializing in international payment processing, with operations in Canada and several African countries. Cauridor is building a streamlined payment infrastructure to enable businesses and partners to connect to African payment networks via a single API. www.cauridor.com
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