CIT VERICASH Sets the Standard for Strategic Fintech Partnerships with 3 Major Industry Awards

In an increasingly complex and competitive digital finance landscape, recognition is earned not through promises, but through proven impact. In 2025, CIT VERICASH was acknowledged as one of the most consistently recognized fintech platforms on the continent, securing three major industry awards within a single quarter. Together, these recognitions underscore one defining truth: CIT VERICASH has established itself as a strategic fintech partner of choice for financial institutions navigating digital transformation at scale.

Rather than operating as a traditional software vendor, CIT VERICASH has built its reputation on a partnership-first model, one that embeds technology, talent, and shared accountability into the heart of banking operations. The 2025 awards reflect the maturity of this approach and its tangible impact across Africa’s financial ecosystem.

Best Digital Transformation Platform

Africa FinTech Forum — Nairobi, Kenya, October 15, 2025

On October 15, 2025, CIT VERICASH received its first major recognition of the year, being named Best Digital Transformation Platform at the Africa FinTech Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya. The award acknowledged the depth of the VERICASH platform’s technology and its ability to drive meaningful, scalable, and human-centric transformation across diverse financial ecosystems.

VERICASH was recognized for enabling financial institutions to transition from legacy systems to agile, intelligent digital ecosystems through a high-configuration, low-code and no-code framework. The platform supports a wide spectrum of services, including digital banking, wallets, embedded finance, and omnichannel experiences, allowing institutions to unify channels, scale across markets, and innovate without structural friction.

A defining strength highlighted by the award was the platform’s AI-powered innovation roadmap. With capabilities such as predictive analytics, real-time fraud prevention, and hyper-personalized customer engagement, VERICASH enables data-driven decision-making at scale. Its 360-degree customer intelligence layer consolidates data across retail, SME, corporate, and wealth segments, providing actionable insights that help institutions better understand and anticipate customer needs.

Built to scale across borders, business models, and technologies, VERICASH today supports millions of users across more than 20 countries, processing thousands of secure transactions daily while maintaining the highest standards of performance, security, and regulatory compliance. The recognition in Nairobi reinforced VERICASH’s position as a trusted partner for institutions seeking not just to digitize, but to truly transform.

Fintech Strategic Partner of the Year

Africa FinTech Forum, 5th Edition — Lagos, Nigeria, November 19, 2025

Just weeks later, on November 19, 2025, CIT VERICASH was awarded Fintech Strategic Partner of the Year at the Africa FinTech Forum Awards (5th Edition) held in Lagos, Nigeria. This recognition focused squarely on partnership impact, honoring organizations that demonstrate exceptional leadership in advancing digital finance through collaboration rather than transactional delivery.

The award highlighted CIT VERICASH’s role as a trusted technology backbone for banks and fintechs, enabling secure, scalable, and future-ready platforms across digital banking, agency banking, mobile payments, and AI-enabled financial services. It also reinforced the company’s positioning as an embedded transformation partner, working alongside institutions to build long-term capability rather than delivering isolated solutions.

Speaking at the event, Executive Chairman Ashraf Zaki noted that the award reflected “the strength of our partnerships and our commitment to building resilient digital ecosystems that empower financial institutions and their customers.” In a market where talent scarcity and operational complexity often stall transformation, CIT VERICASH’s partnership model, supported by Centres of Excellence and co-innovation frameworks, has proven to be a decisive differentiator.

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Best Financial Services Platform Africa 2025

Global Financial Market Review — December 5, 2025

On December 5, 2025, CIT VERICASH was named Best Financial Services Platform Africa 2025 by Global Financial Market Review (GFM), one of the world’s most respected financial industry publications. The award was announced as part of GFM’s first-week-of-December industry recognitions, placing CIT VERICASH among a global cohort of institutions reshaping the future of finance.

With a readership exceeding 14 million annually, GFM evaluates award recipients against rigorous criteria including transparency, governance, innovation, fintech leadership, transaction capability, and customer experience. This recognition affirms CIT VERICASH’s sustained contribution to advancing digital banking and financial services across more than 20 African markets.

At the core of this achievement is the CIT VERICASH Fintech Enablement Platform, a cloud-native, modular ecosystem that allows banks, MFIs, mobile money operators, and fintechs to launch, scale, and continuously evolve digital services. Supporting digital banking, mobile wallets, agency banking, lending, and payments across mobile apps, web, USSD, and agent networks, the platform enables institutions to meet customers wherever they are, while maintaining enterprise-grade security and performance.

What distinguished CIT VERICASH in GFM’s evaluation was not only technological breadth, but its philosophy of enablement. No-code and low-code capabilities dramatically reduce time-to-market, while built-in KYC, AML, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting simplify compliance in complex operating environments. Open APIs further allow seamless integration with core banking systems and regional payment infrastructure, making the platform both agile and future-ready.

A Pattern of Recognition, Not an Exception

Taken together, these three awards, spanning October, November, and December 2025, tell a consistent story. They recognize not just a platform, but a model. CIT VERICASH has demonstrated that sustainable digital transformation in Africa depends on strategic partnerships that embed technology, share responsibility, and build long-term institutional capability.

From global recognition by GFM Review, to regional validation at the Africa FinTech Forum, to platform-focused industry honors, each award reinforces CIT VERICASH’s role at the center of Africa’s fintech evolution. In a market moving rapidly toward mobile-first, open finance, and AI-driven ecosystems, the institutions that succeed will be those supported by partners who understand both technology and context.

CIT VERICASH’s 2025 recognition is therefore not a milestone in isolation, but evidence of a trajectory, one defined by enablement, partnership, and measurable impact. As financial institutions across Nigeria and the continent continue to reimagine the future of banking, CIT VERICASH stands positioned not just as a provider of technology but as a strategic ally in transformation.