October 22, 2025

Duplo and Loita Business Partner to Digitize B2B Payments and Trade Across Southern Africa

Duplo and Loita Business Partner to Digitize B2B Payments Across South Africa

Duplo, a leading B2B payment automation company serving enterprise clients across multiple African markets, has entered into a strategic partnership with Loita Business of Loita Group, a pan-African technology company powering over 5,000 businesses in e-commerce and fintech.

Together, both companies are building an integrated financial operations platform that empowers businesses across Southern Africa to simplify payments, automate procurement, manage finances, and scale efficiently.

This partnership reflects a shared vision to transform how businesses move money and manage operations. By combining Duplo’s payment digitization and automation expertise with Loita Business’s merchant network and regional reach, the collaboration will deliver an end-to-end financial ecosystem where businesses can trade, transact, and grow seamlessly across borders.

The new platform will provide a one-stop solution for business payments, procurement, financing, and expense management. It will help enterprises, SMEs, and micro businesses to:

  • Automate their financial processes, reducing manual work and errors
  • Gain real-time visibility into cash flow and spending
  • Manage procurement, vendor payments, and expense approvals from one dashboard
  • Access financing and working capital faster and more transparently
  • Improve efficiency, accountability, and overall financial health

Yele Oyekola, Co-Founder and CEO of Duplo, commented:

“At Duplo, our mission is to make business payments effortless across Africa. This partnership with Loita Business allows us to bring modern financial tools to tens of thousands of businesses in Southern Africa, empowering them to operate faster, trade smarter, and grow beyond borders.”

For Loita Business, this collaboration aligns perfectly with its mission to build Africa’s largest e-commerce ecosystem. The company is focused on helping over 5,000 businesses in its network digitize their operations and improve access to transparent financial services.

According to Loita Business, the partnership will create significant value for businesses across its key markets such as South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe by providing access to enterprise-grade financial tools and cloud-based payment solutions without cost barriers.

The platform will also include training and onboarding support to help businesses adopt digital tools more effectively, ensuring that even small and medium-sized enterprises can benefit from automation and real-time financial management.

This collaboration marks another major step toward digitizing Africa’s B2B economy, helping businesses move away from paper-based and manual systems to smarter, connected, and transparent digital finance solutions.

Together, Duplo and Loita Business are building the future of B2B payments in Africa, where businesses can trade freely, manage finances confidently, and grow sustainably in a fully digital economy.

About Duplo

Duplo is Africa’s premier B2B payments platform, powering how businesses move money, manage expenses, pay vendors, and manage spend across borders. Through its unified infrastructure for payments and financial operations, Duplo enables businesses to operate seamlessly across multiple markets. replacing manual finance workflows with speed, visibility, and control.

About Loita Business

Loita Business is a pan-African technology company focused on e-commerce innovation. With a growing network of over 5,000 merchants, Loita Business provides tools that help SMEs digitize trade, payments, and financial management across Africa.

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