TymeBank reveals its intention to expand its operations in South Africa its host country announcing its acquisition deal that officiates Retail Capital as its subsidiary FinTech company. TymeBank aims to leverage further expansion as well as aid provisional FinTech solutions to a large span of customers.
The South African regulatory system approved Retail Capital to be acquired by TymeBank. Still, neither TymeBank, Retail Capital, nor the south African regulator disclosed the terms and pricing of the acquisition deal.
The South African digital ecosystem is trending with acquisition deals hovering in the air having recorded the likes of Digital Reality and Teraco; SEACOM Group, EOH NS, and Hymax as the latest acquisition dealers. The South African digital space anticipates the biggest acquisition deal between telecom giants such as MTN Group and Telkom Mobile deal.
Unlike other acquisition deals that played out with getting hold of the company’s stake, TymeBank did not reveal details of the acquisition to determine the possibilities of rebranding or an anti-completion trait. TymeBank’s said the need to obtain more customers that sought FinTech solutions while TymeBank is set to serve a broader scale of FinTech services in South Africa via Retail Capital’s FinTech network.
Retail Capital has reportedly served firms and SMEs in its host country, unlike TymeBank which sells traditional banking services virtually – both parties are under the same FinTech umbrella that will yield lucrative integration of FinTech toolkits. TymeBank’s parent company, African Rainbow Capital endorse the Retail Capital acquisition which gives African Rainbow Capital advances to monopolize the south African FinTech ecosystem.
TymeBank and its newly acquired Retail Capital have credit issuance as a custom service flaunting mutual interest. TymeBank is fully interested in providing FinTech solutions to the unbanked and underbanked communities of Africa as well as underbanked entrepreneurs and SMEs.
TymeBank’s FinTech integration with Retail Capital will increase the African Rainbow Capital Initiative to penetrate Africa.
“This acquisition will allow TymeBank to expand its offering to entrepreneurs to include working capital finance. Retail Capital has acquired significant risk management experience over the past decade and through different economic cycles. They have an experienced team in place and their risk models and operational processes have been battle-tested and optimized to a significant degree for small-business funding,”
Aside from serving credit issuance to corporate entities via Retail Capital’s network, TymeBank is also interested in supporting its potential customers with consultative services on significant risk management and finance management. TymeBank intends to nurture its customers how to judiciously utilize working capital after crediting loans.
TymeBank’s Retail Capital is recognized to serve SMEs with credit facilities via provisional working capital infrastructure to thousands of customers remitting finances within south Africa and across other continental borders. The TymeBank and Retail Capital acquisition is a long-term investment initiative schemed to provide billions of credit facilities to SMEs.
While TymeBank intends to expand across Africa having acquired Retail Capital and its resources, the FinTech services providers intend to sell their services to lucrative customers to support their business expansion likewise theirs. TymeBank’s parent company’s support also launched the TymePOS mobile app to leverage Point-of-Sale transactions which are currently available in the Android OS.
