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Bank-in-a-Box · Tanzania

Your money, your people, your life.

Send, save together, and pay for what you love — all from one app built for Tanzania. Licensed by the Bank of Tanzania, powered by AGB Tanzania and TIPs.

Licensed by Bank of Tanzania Powered by AGB Tanzania Available on iOS & Android
The FIKA app home screen showing Baraka's balance, quick actions, Savings and Accounts
Delivered through SorenTech

FIKA is built on the Maly platform and taken to market by SorenTech, the joint venture between Maly Tech and Soren Investment Company. FIKA is the SorenTech digital banking brand. Africa & Gulf Bank holds the banking license, the customer relationship and the deposits. SorenTech provides the technology and platform.

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Bank license, one platform

Speed, end to end

Built fast. Onboards even faster.

SorenTech took FIKA from a signed contract to a fully licensed, live bank in under twenty weeks. Every customer who downloads it moves just as fast — a real bank account, open in under five minutes.

Rocket speed to market

From a signed contract to a live bank in under twenty weeks — core banking, Kibubu, Duka and instant transfers, all working on day one. That's what happens when you deploy a proven platform instead of starting from a blank page.

Open your account in under 5 minutes

No queues. No paperwork. Just your phone, your ID, and a few taps — and you're banking with FIKA.

1 · Download the app
2 · Verify your identity
3 · Add funds & start banking

What's live

Everything you need, in one place.

Send money to your family, save with your friends, pay your subscriptions — FIKA handles it all, simply.

Kibubu

Save together with the people you trust — for rent, a wedding, school fees, or whatever comes next.

Duka

Pay for your favourite apps and subscriptions in TZS — Netflix, Spotify, gaming credits and more. No foreign card needed.

The FIKA app home screen showing Baraka's balance, quick actions and a Kibubu group-savings preview
Instant Transfers

Send money to anyone, in any bank or mobile wallet in Tanzania. Lands in seconds — day or night.

Virtual & Physical Card Coming soon

Your own FIKA card — shop online or in-store, anywhere Visa is accepted. Control it all from the app.

Kibubu · community savings

A savings pot for the people you trust.

Tanzanians have always looked out for each other — pooling money for rent, a wedding, school fees, a celebration. Kibubu just brings that pot onto your phone. Everyone adds what they can, toward one shared goal, and everyone can see it grow — transparent, automatic, and always on time, with no one left chasing anyone for their share.

A family in Dar es Salaam looking at the FIKA app together, with a Family Rent Kibubu savings card showing 60% of the goal saved
Duka · digital marketplace

Every subscription, one balance.

Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, PUBG and dozens more — paid straight from the FIKA balance, in TZS. No foreign card, no failed payments, no extra charges.

The FIKA app Duka marketplace, showing Netflix, Amazon, PUBG and other digital vouchers priced in TZS
Instant transfers · on TIPs

Send money anywhere, instantly.

Send money to anyone in Tanzania and it arrives in seconds — to any bank account or mobile wallet. Safe, instant, and available around the clock.

The FIKA app send money screen, entering an amount to send via a Fika to Fika transfer
Cards · coming soon

Your FIKA card, wherever life happens.

A FIKA Visa card, physical and virtual, built for the way you already live — tap to pay for coffee, or check out online. Freeze it, unfreeze it, and set your own spending limits, right from the app.

A FIKA customer tapping her FIKA Visa card to pay at a café in Dar es Salaam, with the FIKA app card screen shown alongside

Trust & safety

Bank-grade security, from a phone.

Every login and payment is protected with biometric authentication, encryption and real-time fraud monitoring — and every account sits behind AGB Tanzania, licensed and regulated by the Bank of Tanzania.

Biometric authentication

Fingerprint or Face ID to sign in and approve payments. Biometrics never leave the device.

Backed by AGB Tanzania

Funds held and protected through a bank licensed and regulated by the Bank of Tanzania.

The FIKA app fingerprint verification screen shown during onboarding

What sits underneath

The same Bank-in-a-Box modules, configured for Tanzania.

Digital Onboarding
ID and biometric verification
Multi-Accounts
Accounts and currencies
Payments
Instant transfers on TIPs
Group Savings
The rails behind Kibubu
Cards
Issuing and controls
Ops Console
Back-office and risk

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FIKA, powered by AGB Tanzania

Launch the same thing under your license.

Bank-in-a-Box deploys under your brand, with your core banking system, inside your regulator's perimeter.