- Orange Money Burkina Faso upgrades to Next-Generation mobiquity® Pay leading a revenue growth driven by Comviva
- The upgraded platform is driving the launch of innovative products and services, enabling an agile response to business needs, and accelerate time-to-market
MWC, Barcelona, Spain – 05 March 2025: Orange, a key player in Burkina Faso’s mobile money landscape, today announced the successful upgrade of its mobile money platform to Comviva’s next-generation mobiquity® Pay. This strategic enhancement aims to foster innovation and ensure seamless service delivery for Orange Money users in Burkina Faso.
The advanced platform will empower Orange to rapidly scale its payment services while ensuring smooth integration within the broader ecosystem. With an open architecture and API-first approach, the platform enhances flexibility and interoperability. Additionally, its advanced security features—including robust authentication and authorization modules, as well as session management capabilities—strengthen fraud prevention measures, ensuring a secure environment for Orange Money users.
Christophe Baziemo, Chief Executive Officer at Orange Money Burkina Faso, commented on the partnership, stating, “Orange Money is one of our key growth drivers, contributing significantly to economic and social development in Burkina Faso. We are particularly impressed by mobiquity® Pay’s microservices architecture, open design, and API-first philosophy, which will enable us to significantly expand the Orange Money ecosystem in the region and provide disruptive services to our customers.”
Rajesh Chandiramani, Chief Executive Officer at Comviva added, “For over a decade, Comviva has been a trusted partner to Orange, managing the design and technical operations of their platform. Recognizing the evolving landscape of mobile money, Orange’s decision to upgrade to mobiquity® Pay reflects its commitment to staying ahead. Comviva’s successful migration leading revenue growth approach, leveraging our extensive experience in large-scale and complex migrations, has successfully completed over 30 transitions in the past decade. This upgrade, the first of its kind at this scale in the region, paves the way for transformative advancements in digital payments. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Orange on their digitization journey. The extensibility, configurability, and low-code features of mobiquity® Pay will enable them to launch new services at an accelerated pace.”
The new platform represents a state-of-the-art, cloud-native solution offering a comprehensive suite for digital money, wallets, and payments. Its robust and scalable architecture ensures a secure and user-friendly experience, while enhanced modularity facilitates faster time-to-market for new services. The true-fixed cost model guarantees seamless business continuity without unforeseen expenses, supported by a culturally aligned, bilingual talent pool with deep domain expertise. This strategy is further strengthened by active leadership involvement and a technologically advanced product with best-in-class technical and functional architecture, ensuring successful deployment and exceptional performance.
About Orange Burkina Faso:
Orange Money Burkina Faso is a leading provider of mobile financial services, playing a crucial role in financial inclusion and digital transformation in the country. As a key player in mobile money, the company continues to drive economic growth and innovation by expanding its services and enhancing customer experiences. Through its partnership with Comviva, Orange Money Burkina Faso reaffirms its commitment to delivering secure, seamless, and cutting-edge financial solutions to its users.
About Comviva Technologies Ltd.
Comviva simplifies business complexity. Our innovative portfolio of digital solutions and platforms brings greater choice, faster time to market, and flexibility, to better meet the evolving needs of our customers as they drive growth, transform, and bring efficiency. From maximizing customer lifetime value to enabling large-scale digital transformation, we partner globally with organizations in the communications and financial industry to solve problems quickly and transform for tomorrow. Comviva solutions have been deployed by over 130 Communication Services Providers and Financial Institutions in more than 90 countries and have delivered the benefits of digital and mobility to billions of people around the world. Comviva is a completely owned subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a part of the Mahindra Group. For more information, visit us at www.comviva.com
For more information, please contact:
Sundeep Mehta
DGM, Corporate Communications
Email: Sundeep.mehta@comviva.com
Mob: +91-9910030732
