RE: Current Situation4 Jul 2019 15:47
Payserv Africa, a FinTech company with $7.57 million in revenues in FY 2018. Payserv's Paynet Zimbabwe subsidiary holds a dominant position in the country’s electronic payments market, facilitating about 40% of all payments in the country. Paynet has a proven track record of secure transactions with ubiquitous presence in all financial institutions and MNO’s. Paynet’s product is used by every government department and by over 5,000 of the largest private banking customers. Paynet serves over 2.5 million unique final beneficiaries in Zimbabwe. Payserv also cuts a wide swath in Zimbabwe’s payroll management and consumer loan processing markets. Payserv is ideally positioned to leverage its existing technology platforms to exploit opportunities which arise from FinTech disruptions. Payserv intends to introduce innovative payment technologies and distributed ledger security to increase its penetration in the consumer market which represents 97% of transaction volumes.
• Millchem Zimbabwe is a value-added chemicals distributor with $1.88 million in revenues for FY 2018. The company is currently focused on ethanol-based solvents due to the significant local availability of ethanol. Millchem achieved its first profit in more than four years following the successful implementation of Cambria’s turnaround program.