Rwanda’s Next-Gen Payment System Goes Live at IFF 2025
Rwanda launches RNDP 2.0, a unified digital payment system enabling seamless transactions across platforms, enhancing financial inclusion and economic growth.
This afternoon at IFF 2025, Minister Paula Ingabire participated in the launch of the Rwanda National Digital Payment System 2.0 (RNDP 2.0).
The RNDPS 2.0 is an inclusive payments system that provides one endpoint connecting users to all marketplaces and allows them to perform transactions and transfers across multiple financial service providers’ platforms. It was developed by RSwitch with partnership and support from RwandaICT, the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR), Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA), Access to Finance Rwanda, Gates Foundation, Mojaloop Foundation, and AfricaNenda.
Speaking at the launch, Minister Ingabire highlighted that – building on earlier successes in P2P interoperability (such as with Mobile Network Operators mobile wallets) – the RNDPS 2.0 is introducing Person-to-Merchant transactions and will soon add bulk payments, bill payments and Gov’t services use cases.
The Minister noted Rwanda’s strategy of leveraging open-source technologies as a cornerstone of this development, saying
By leveraging these flexible, robust, and cost-effective solutions we’ve been able to build scalable systems that are both robust and secure.
– Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT & Innovation, Rwanda
