Cape Town, South Africa – 2 July 2026 – Duplo, the financial operations platform helping businesses simplify payments and expense management, has officially launched in South Africa, marking a significant milestone in its expansion across the continent.

The launch was celebrated at a networking event hosted in partnership with The Payments Club on Wednesday, 1 July 2026, at Col’Cacchio, The Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock, Cape Town. The event brought together approximately 90 leaders from South Africa’s finance, payments, banking, fintech, retail, and technology sectors for an evening of networking and discussion on the future of financial operations.

The launch event was delivered in partnership with The Payments Club, one of South Africa’s leading communities connecting professionals across the payments and financial services ecosystem.

The collaboration reflects Duplo’s commitment to becoming an active contributor to South Africa’s fintech and payments landscape by creating opportunities for education, collaboration, and industry dialogue.

Held under the theme “Modernising Payments and Financial Operations for South African Businesses,” the event explored how businesses can improve operational efficiency through faster payments, better financial controls, automation, and modern finance infrastructure.

While South Africa has one of Africa’s most sophisticated financial ecosystems, many businesses continue to experience operational challenges behind the scenes.

Business payments, particularly supplier and bulk payments, can still take hours to three business days to settle, creating delays in operations, cash flow management, and supplier relationships. At the same time, finance teams often rely on manual approval processes, spreadsheets, and fragmented systems to manage expenses and reconcile payments.

These operational inefficiencies consume valuable time and limit the ability of finance teams to focus on strategic decision-making.

Duplo enters the South African market to help solve these challenges by enabling businesses to:

• Make faster local business payments
• Manage company expenses from a single platform
• Automate multi-level approval workflows
• Gain real-time visibility into company spending
• Eliminate manual reconciliation and fragmented finance processes

By combining payments and expense management into one platform, Duplo helps finance teams move faster while maintaining stronger financial controls.

Looking Ahead

Following its South African launch, Duplo will continue investing in the market through educational content, webinars, ecosystem partnerships, and customer engagements aimed at helping businesses modernize their financial operations.

The company is also offering businesses complimentary access to its platform for a limited period as part of its market-entry program, enabling organizations to experience firsthand how faster payments and automated expense management can improve operational efficiency.

About Duplo

Duplo is a financial operations platform that helps businesses simplify payments, automate approval workflows, and gain real-time visibility into company spending.

Its platform combines payments and expense management into a single system, enabling finance teams to manage supplier payments, employee reimbursements, approvals, and financial controls more efficiently. In addition to its spend management platform, Duplo also builds custom financial products, embedded finance solutions, and payment infrastructure for businesses and enterprise partners.

With operations across Africa, Duplo is helping businesses modernise financial operations through automation, speed, and better financial visibility.