Esca Finance and Mansa Partner to Improve Cross-Border Payments Across Africa
The partnership is aimed at addressing some of the biggest challenges facing payment companies, remittance providers, and global businesses operating across African markets.
Esca Finance has partnered with Mansa to strengthen liquidity access and improve cross-border settlement across major African payment corridors. The collaboration brings together Esca’s foreign exchange and banking infrastructure in emerging markets with Mansa’s settlement-first liquidity platform to support businesses moving money into and across Africa.
The partnership is aimed at addressing some of the biggest challenges facing payment companies, remittance providers, and global businesses operating across African markets. Businesses often need to move funds quickly across multiple currencies, but fragmented financial infrastructure, settlement delays, and liquidity constraints continue to create operational difficulties.
Esca said it is building financial infrastructure designed to make cross-border money movement simpler, more reliable, and easier to manage for businesses operating in and out of emerging markets. Through its platform, businesses are able to access foreign exchange services, banking capabilities, local payout rails, and currency management tools tailored for African corridors.
Through the partnership with Mansa, Esca will expand liquidity access across key markets and support faster settlement for clients transacting in currencies including the Naira, Cedi, XOF, and XAF. Mansa’s settlement-first USDT rails are expected to complement Esca’s local FX and banking infrastructure, enabling both companies to deliver improved settlement speed and efficiency for high-volume clients.
The collaboration will also allow Mansa to leverage Esca’s local market expertise, FX execution capabilities, banking relationships, and infrastructure across African corridors. Together, the two companies aim to bridge the gap between stablecoin liquidity and local currency settlement across the continent.
“Mansa’s settlement-first USDT rails have strengthened our ability to deliver same-day settlements across key African corridors, helping Esca scale more efficiently with tier-one remittance players.”
– Shalom Osiadi, CEO, Esca Finance
According to the companies, the partnership reflects a broader industry shift toward specialised infrastructure layers working together to improve cross-border finance. They noted that liquidity, FX, banking, compliance, and settlement systems must integrate seamlessly to support businesses operating at scale.
Esca said the partnership aligns with its broader mission of building financial infrastructure that connects global businesses to African markets. By combining Esca’s local payout rails and FX services with Mansa’s liquidity infrastructure, the companies believe businesses will be able to reduce payment friction, improve settlement reliability, and navigate volatile currency environments more effectively.
The partnership comes as increasing numbers of global businesses seek expansion opportunities in emerging markets, driving demand for faster, more resilient, and more accessible cross-border payment solutions across Africa.
