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title: "CrissCross: Payments API in Africa"
description: "Collect locally, convert FX in real time and run bulk payouts across 20+ African markets via one API, with 99.99% uptime and failovers."
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published_at: "2026-03-14T23:50:40.528Z"
updated_at: "2026-09-22T08:13:20.884Z"
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# CrissCross: Payments API in Africa

Collect locally, convert FX in real time and run bulk payouts across 20+ African markets via one API, with 99.99% uptime and failovers.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech)
- [CrissCross](/crisscross)

## Summary

One API for collections, FX, and payouts across African markets

Payments infrastructure for enterprises trading in Africa to collect locally, manage multi-currency treasury, convert FX in real time, and run automated payouts via one API.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://www.crisscross.money/ |
| Tagline | One API for collections, FX, and payouts across African markets |
| Primary country | South Africa |
| Platforms | Web, API |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

CrissCross is a payments infrastructure platform for enterprise businesses trading in Africa that need cross-border money movement, local collections, FX conversion, and local payouts across 20+ African markets.

Key capabilities include:
- **Local collections in African markets**: accept payments via **local methods** in 20+ markets while CrissCross handles **compliance** and **global settlement**.
- **Corporate treasury and FX**: centralise **multi-currency accounts** and access **deep liquidity pools** for **real-time FX conversion** at institutional rates, with support focused on major currencies such as **EUR and USD** alongside African currencies.
- **Automated payouts**: execute **bulk payouts** and **invoice settlement** across **Africa, Asia, and Europe**, with **guaranteed delivery in local markets**.
- **Reliability and controls**: **99.99% uptime**, **24/7 monitoring**, and **automatic failovers** to reduce downtime.

Available via **Web** (self-serve dashboard) and **API** integrations, with optional delivery channels such as **WhatsApp**.

Target users include **B2B enterprise finance, treasury, and payments teams** that require collections, treasury management, and payouts across multiple African corridors.

Notable in the African payments context, it operates as a **registered Money Service Business (MSB) in Canada** (FINTRAC registration **C100000765**) for **Foreign Exchange Dealing** and **Money Transferring**, and positions its infrastructure around **blockchain speed with fiat settlement certainty** for cross-border flows.

## Features

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech): Category
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Bulk Payments](/tags/bulk-payments): Product feature or technology
- [Cross-Border Payments](/tags/cross-border-payments): Product feature or technology
- [Multi-currency](/tags/multi-currency): Product feature or technology
- [Angola](/countries/angola): Market
- [Benin](/countries/benin): Market
- [Botswana](/countries/botswana): Market
- [Burkina Faso](/countries/burkina-faso): Market
- [Burundi](/countries/burundi): Market
- [Cameroon](/countries/cameroon): Market
- [Chad](/countries/chad): Market
- [Congo](/countries/congo): Market
- [Côte d'Ivoire](/countries/cote-divoire): Market
- [Egypt](/countries/egypt): Market
- [Ethiopia](/countries/ethiopia): Market
- [Gabon](/countries/gabon): Market
- [Ghana](/countries/ghana): Market
- [Kenya](/countries/kenya): Market
- [Madagascar](/countries/madagascar): Market
- [Malawi](/countries/malawi): Market
- [Mali](/countries/mali): Market
- [Mauritius](/countries/mauritius): Market
- [Morocco](/countries/morocco): Market
- [Mozambique](/countries/mozambique): Market
- [Nigeria](/countries/nigeria): Market
- [Rwanda](/countries/rwanda): Market
- [Senegal](/countries/senegal): Market
- [Sierra Leone](/countries/sierra-leone): Market
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market
- [Tanzania](/countries/tanzania): Market
- [Togo](/countries/togo): Market
- [Uganda](/countries/uganda): Market
- [Zambia](/countries/zambia): Market
- [Zimbabwe](/countries/zimbabwe): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/crisscross/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/crisscross/reviews)
- [Transparency](/crisscross/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/crisscross)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)