The Nigerian fintech firm Paystack came out to announced that is launching pay with Apple Pay on its platform. In a statement the company said the integration is “the fastest, secure way for Nigerian businesses to accept international payments.”
Speaking to TechCrunch, Khadijah Abu, the head of product expansion at Paystack said, “we’re the first payment platform to support this channel in Nigeria, and we intend to integrate more global payment channels in the future to help connect Paystack merchants to the global economy,” she said.
Abu adds, “we’ve integrated with Apple Pay because we want to give our merchants and their customers more payment choices. Customers also love Apple Pay, the conversions are great and our merchants can now reach an even larger audience.”
Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payments and digital wallet service, provides users with a secure and private way to pay on their iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Macbooks.
The company is now the first payment gateway in Nigeria to support Apple Pay. Doing so gives Nigerian businesses access to millions of Apple Pay users in the more than 60 countries where the payments service is active.
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