IPA is built to be the rail between Botswana's payment service providers, banks, mobile money operators and corporate disbursers. Partnership is how that rail comes together — one technical integration, one commercial agreement, one supervised connection point.
IPA is designed to make the path from "we'd like to be reachable across providers" to "we're live in production" the shortest possible route — without compromising on regulatory posture, technical rigour, or the partner's commercial interests.
We work with three groups, each engaging IPA in a different way. The partnership process is unified — the same discovery, technical, and sandbox steps — but the questions we work through together depend on who's joining the rail.
Banks, mobile money operators, and mobile network operators integrate as PSPs — participants whose customers can send and receive across the rail. The conversation centres on technical fit, settlement model, and how your existing back office connects.
Companies that need to pay many people — payroll, suppliers, grant recipients — without forcing every recipient into the same provider. The conversation centres on volume, file format, and the operations model your finance team needs.
The Bank of Botswana and adjacent regulators engage with IPA primarily as a supervised system. The conversation centres on governance, the real-time supervisor view, AML reporting, and how partner risk is managed across the network.
Every partnership runs through four phases, regardless of audience. Each phase has clear inputs, clear outputs, and clear owners. We don't over-specify durations — partner readiness varies — but the sequence is fixed.
We're explicit about what we ask from partners and what partners can ask from us. Honest expectations early prevent expensive surprises later.
We'd like to hear from you. Send a short note — what you do, what you're trying to solve, and how you'd want to engage — and we'll come back to schedule a Phase 01 discovery call within a few working days.