RSwitch

The standard is simple: don’t just keep up. Keep moving forward.
Because when it comes to Rwanda’s payment ecosystem, there’s always room to do more.

#RSwitch #extramile #cashlessrwanda

Gakenke, namwe intero ni yayindi, Gahunda ni soza diru na eKash.

#cashless #ekash

RSwitch is looking for a Head of People & Culture to join our team.

If you are passionate about people, culture, and creating an engaging workplace, this could be your next opportunity.

📩 Submit your letter of intent and CV to recruitment@rswitch.co.rw.

🗓️ Deadline: Friday, 9 October 2026
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

#RSwitch #WeAreHiring #Careers #PeopleAndCulture #RwandaJobs

Umuganura reminds us that our greatest strength lies in working together. 🇷🇼

RSwitch connects Rwanda’s financial ecosystem bringing financial institutions together to power a more connected, inclusive, and prosperous nation.

Happy Umuganura!

Here is what you need to know about #eKash

Ibyo ukwiriye kumenya kuri #eKash

🚨𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞🚨:
Rwanda has successfully transitioned domestic interoperable retail payment transactions to eKash, the country's National Digital Payment System.

Find out what this means for your transfers, merchant payments, transaction fees and limits by reading the full public notice.

🚨𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐨 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞🚨:
U Rwanda rwatangiye gukoresha eKash byuzuye mu bikorwa by'ubwishyu bw'imbere mu gihugu bukorwa hagati y'ibigo by'imari.

Menya icyo ibi bisobanuye ku kohereza amafaranga, kwishyura abacuruzi, ibiciro bya serivisi n'ingano y'amafaranga ushobora kohereza usoma itangazo rirambuye.

#eKash #DigitalPayments #Interoperability #RSwitch

🚨WE ARE HIRING‼️

Are you ready to innovate in the Fintech?

We’re building the digital backbone of payments in Rwanda, and we want you on the journey.

Scan the QR code and submit your application via the shared email.

Click below to apply 👇🏽

rswitch.co.rw/jobs-2/

Don’t just watch the future of finance… be part of it.

#vacancy #jobhiring #rswitch #fintech

Your bank already has it, your SACCO too.

If you’re with any of these financial service providers, you can simply request your #SmartCash card from there, no extra steps, no switching needed.

Just ask, get the card and start using it for everyday payments. Better payments awaits!

Today, we brought together the people responsible for ensuring payments don’t just move but move right. Following last week’s engagement with the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR), one thing became clear: the ambition around eKash by RSwitch is aligned, but execution needs to catch up, and in payments, execution is everything.

So this was not a routine session, in the room were Chief Operations Officers and Heads of Operations from across the #eKash ecosystem, representing banks, fintechs, and payment service providers all participating in Rwanda National Digital Payment System.

The people responsible for making interoperability work, not in theory, but in real, everyday transactions. We took a deep dive into RNDPS eKash operations, aligning on processes, expectations, and the realities behind seamless payment execution across institutions.

Because here’s the truth: In an interoperable ecosystem, almost working is not working. One delay, one gap, one inconsistency, and the entire experience breaks, and the customer doesn’t see institutions, they see one system.

So, the focus is simple: Consistency. Reliability. Accountability.

For when eKash reaches the market at scale, it has to feel effortless: One code. One payment. One experience.

That’s the standard, and that’s what we’re building.

#RSwitch #eKash #Interoperability #FinancialInclusion

We’re hiring an IT Operations Manager.

If you have experience in IT operations, infrastructure, and leading high-performing teams, this is your chance to be part of Rwanda’s growing digital payments ecosystem.

📍 Kigali

🕒 Deadline: 17 April 2026

Apply here: https: rswitch.co.rw/job/it-operati…

Yesterday, we held a workshop with the first movers on the eKash P2B use case, institutions that have moved with speed to implement merchant interoperability and are actively shaping how payments look in the market. Importantly, the @CentralBankRw was also present, grounding the conversation in national direction and reinforcing that this shift is not just industry-led, but nation-wide.

In the room were representative from @GTBankRW, @BankofKigali, @imbankrw, @BPRbankrw, @RwEquityBank, @mvendgroup, @CentrikaRw, @NCBABankRw, and @AirtelMoney_Rw. Each of them has made a deliberate decision to #move, accepting interoperable merchant payments across their rails.

Because this is what it comes down to: instead of a business needing many different ways to receive money, one for each bank or mobile wallet, they now only need one code, and no matter where the money is coming from, one can still pay using that same code. Before, it was complicated: 'I only accept this bank' or 'send it here first.' Now, it’s simple, if you have money, you can pay. It sounds small, but in practice, it changes everything.

@BankofKigali and @mvendgroup were the pioneers on the P2B use case, quietly proving that interoperability is not theory, it works. @GTBankRW plc stepped in with @CentrikaRw, followed by @imbankrw, @NCBABankRw, and @RwEquityBank.

So why should people care?

If you own a business, this means you no longer need multiple collection methods. You can display a single code from the bank that serves you best and receive payments from everyone. No more end-of-day scrambling to move money across accounts, you collect once, settle once, and that consistency? It opens doors to access credit, because your cash flow becomes visible and reliable.

For the everyday user, it’s even simpler. You don’t need to move money between wallets or banks just to make a payment. If your funds are in your bank account, you can pay any merchant, whether their code is from BK, GT, NCBA, MVend, or others, instantly. Payments are completed in seconds, with clear verification of who you’re paying.

For the market, this shifts the game. Financial institutions can now focus on building better products instead of duplicating infrastructure. It becomes less about competing on rails, and more about serving people.

With eKash, moving money is becoming simpler, faster, and more inclusive.

#RSwitch #eKash #Interoperability #FinancialInclusion #DigitalPayments #CashlessRwanda

#IFF2026 may have come to a close, but the conversations didn’t stop there. At #MojaCom, the real work of payments infrastructure design continued.

During the session on product design and implementation, Ishimwe Promesse D., Payments Product Manager at @RSwitch, unpacked a question that every fintech ecosystem eventually faces: Does quality software automatically translate into a quality product?

His answer pushed the conversation beyond code. He said that a strong product begins with understanding the market and localizing technology to the realities of the ecosystem it serves. It requires building the operational layers that sustain trust, including dispute and reconciliation portals that ensure transparency across participants. But even that is not enough. A quality product must also be implemented correctly, rolled out deliberately, and managed continuously to ensure it serves banks, fintechs, merchants, and citizens effectively. In payment systems, the difference between good software and a great product often lies in how well the ecosystem around it is designed and managed.

That philosophy continues to guide the evolution of eKash by RSwitch, where technology is only the beginning, and the real goal is building systems that work for people every day.

#MojaCom #Fintech #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #Interoperability #eKash #CashlessRwanda

POV: If every country builds its own payment highway but none of them connect, you end up with beautiful roads that all stop at the border. The real breakthrough is when the highways meet.

At the Inclusive FinTech Forum 2026, Jean Jacques Kajuga, COO of @RSwitch, argued that the future of cross-border payments lies in connecting national instant payment systems not adding more intermediaries.

Standardization and switch-to-switch interoperability can reduce FX costs, minimize payment hops, and move money across Africa faster and more affordably.

#IFF2026 #CrossBorderPayments #FinancialInclusion #InstantPayments #eKash

At the Inclusive FinTech Forum 2026, @RSwitch, Chief Digital Innovation & Projects Aimable Rukundo highlighted a hard truth about payment systems:

'In payments, 99.6% success is not enough if the 0.4% failure isn’t managed properly.'

Through centralized monitoring, real-time visibility across participants, and fast dispute resolution, the eKash interoperable payment system ensures trust remains at the center of every transaction.

For infrastructure lives or dies on trust. Roads can have potholes and people still drive. Payment systems get almost no such forgiveness. One bad experience, and the human brain starts whispering, 'maybe cash is safer.'

The entire craft of a national switch is making sure that whisper never gets loud.

#IFF2026 #Payments #Fintech #Interoperability #eKash

'The magic happens when you listen to the market you operate in. Start with pain points, address them step by step, and let use cases emerge naturally. No scheme succeeds alone.'

– Mohamed Maalim, Payments Technology Advisor, Rwanda National Switch at #IFF2026

eKash is built on this principle, inclusive, practical, and responsive to the real needs of citizens, merchants, and institutions.

#FinancialInclusion #Interoperability #DigitalPayments #eKash #CashlessRwanda

At the Inclusive FinTech Forum 2026 Mojaloop Convening, Blaise Pascal Gasabira, CEO of @RSwitch, highlighted that instant payments are not a product. They are national infrastructure.

Through eKash, Rwanda is showing what true financial leadership looks like, interoperable rails built as a sovereignty choice, designed to be neutral, resilient, and inclusive. This is not just technology; it’s a national commitment to ensure money moves securely, instantly, and accessibly for everyone, every day.

#IFF2026 #Mojaloop #FinancialInclusion #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #eKash #CashlessRwanda

During MojaCom at the Inclusive FinTech Forum 2026, Hon. @MusoniPaula highlighted a powerful idea shaping the future of finance:

'Instant payment systems are the digital rails of modern economies.'

Just as roads and electricity powered past economic growth, today’s digital economies need payment infrastructure that moves money instantly, securely, and at low cost. In Rwanda, those rails are being built through the @eKashrs interoperable payment system, connecting banks, mobile wallets, and financial institutions across one interoperable ecosystem.

#IFF2026 #MojaCom #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #FinancialInclusion #eKash

We are proud to be part of #eKash, Rwanda's national digital payment system. A platform that has enabled money to move between banks, SACCOs, MFIs, MNOs and Fintechs.

The implementation of eKash has positioned Rwanda as an example of interoperability being practical not only in Africa, but in the world.

Steve Haley- @mojaloop

3,000 leaders, investors & fintechs gathered for one reason, to advance policies & regulations, & create meaningful long-term connections & partnerships to further financial inclusion through fintech for good.

And when we talk financial inclusion in Rwanda, we can't skip #eKash

In this video, Catherine Ngali, Head of Transactional Banking at @NCBABankRw, explains how interoperability is helping financial institutions save time, reduce costs, & expand access in Rwanda's financial ecosystem.

Watch the full conversation here:
youtu.be/dWG4piMxEIQ