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Money with a heartbeat.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals and follows up. Nothing leaves your account without your approval.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She holds dollars, pounds, euros and Naira side by side, swaps at a locked rate, pays bills in any of them and sends anywhere, asking before anything moves.

HomeEvery currency, every Box and every card on one screen.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Savings BoxesFlexible, Fixed, Investment and Interest-free, side by side.
Create a BoxPick the type, name the goal. Eva works out what to move, and when.
LoansSpaces credit and Salary Advance. Draw only what you need.
Invite friendsThree friends, ₦50,000 each, and ₦20,000 lands with you.
YouEva’s voice, your plan, your address and every security control.
Duress signalA word that looks normal on screen while your people are alerted.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Swap at the live rateOr name the rate you want and she swaps the moment it lands.
One card, every currencySpend from whichever balance suits, and freeze it from the app.
What Eva may do without askingStanding permissions, a voice, and a record of every rule you have given her.
Receipts anyone can verifyRegular or certified statements, e-signed and checkable by whoever receives them.
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Pryme app: Home
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Savings Boxes
Pryme app: Create a Box
Pryme app: Loans
Pryme app: Invite friends
Pryme app: You
Pryme app: Duress signal
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Swap at the live rate
Pryme app: Multicurrency card
Pryme app: What Eva may do without asking
Pryme app: Receipts and statements
MoneyAgentsApprovalAgentsEvery currencyYour approval

Open an account. Get money to spend.

Global money. Intelligent growth.

We give you a limit to spend at the shops and services you already use — and an account that works on your month while you get on with it. Dollars, pounds and euros sit beside your Naira, and an assistant handles the running of it, asking you first every single time.

One global account for your money and business. Move across currencies, automate everyday operations and put AI agents to work — with you in control of every important decision.

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Pryme app home: every currency on one balance
Personal · the app in your hand
Salary landed₦920,000 from John Doe Ltd · Naira account
Done
Move ₦100,000 to your Rent Box?Keeps ₦127.9m liquid · earns 18% p.a.
Approve
Paid Ikeja Electric₦18,400 · token sent by SMS
Done
Swap $200 → ₦310,000?Rate locked at ₦1,550 for 30 s
Approve
Held a ₦150,000 transferNew payee · unusual hour · needs you
Review
Received $2,400From a client · USD account
Done
Swap $200 → £—?Rate locked for 30 s
Approve
Paid the light bill at home₦18,400 · Ikeja Electric
Done
Keep $1,000 liquid, save the rest?$1,400 → Flexible Box
Approve
Held a £2,000 transferNew payee · needs you
Review
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500,000+customers, personal and businessScan to get the app
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Regulated partnersEvery currency held with a licensed institution in its market
Solid AllianzeCBNNDIC
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Instant settlementOur own core ledger: swaps land at once, every receipt verifiableScan to get the app
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Eva, the assistant that runs a Pryme accountEvayour assistant
The Chief of Staff agent on a Pryme Business AccountDanielChief of Staff
The Finance agent on a Pryme Business AccountBenFinance
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Inside a mandate you write. Every action logged.
Multi-currency30 currencies on one balanceFlip
Locked rates30 s
🇺🇸 1 USD—
🇬🇧 1 GBP—
🇪🇺 1 EUR—
The rate you see is the rate you get.
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Business Account

Open an account. Get customers.

Your competitor down the road sells the same thing you sell. The difference is who walks in. We put money in people’s hands that can only be spent in businesses like yours — and then we point them at you.

The Pryme Business home page: three currency balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into
Spaces · Nigeria

We hand the customer the money. It can only be spent with you.

You are not borrowing. You are selling to somebody who already has the money — and that money can only be spent with a business like yours.

The business · Pryme Business
johndoe.mypryme.com · Spaces

Spaces Showing 30 days

Spaces is onshoppers near you can see your shop
Spaces brought you · 30 days ₦2,578,550.00 104 sales from 71 shoppers ▼ 4% on the period before
Where the money came from
91% shoppers who had been in before 9% first visit to your shop
21 of 71 came back more than once Average basket ₦24,793.75 Biggest shopper ₦142,300.00
24 Jul returningnew to you 22 Aug
Money on its way to you confirmed at the counter · on its way to your Naira account
Confirmed at the counter ₦47,150.002 sales today · final the moment they paid
Sales of 23 Aug₦90,9503 sales · confirmed
Sales of 24 Aug₦196,2005 sales · confirmed
Sales of 25 Aug₦47,1502 sales · confirmed
nothing for you to do · it arrives on its own
Lands in your NGN account ₦334,300.0010 sales in flight
The shopper · Pryme app
4:34
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BorrowLoans
SpacesSalary Advance
Spaces credit₦21,450 available
Repay ₦78,550
₦78,550 in use₦100,000 limit
Hold 25% · repay 2 more early to drop to 20%

₦100,000 from day one · agreement v2.1 · 12 Aug · View

Near youCategories 9Your loans 9
🛒Grocery / Retail4 places
🍽Eateries / Restaurants4 places
💊Pharmacies3 places
🎬Movies & Cinema3 places
🚌Transport3 places
💇Spa’s & Saloons3 places
Say “Hey Pryme”🎤
HomeBoxes CardsYou
Freeto join, nothing monthly. You are in the app the day you switch it on.
You get paidthe sale settles into your Naira account. Nobody to chase.
Zero riskwe carry the credit, whether or not the shopper repays us.
You growfaces that had never been to your shop — and most come back on their own.
The account

One account. Every currency you trade in.

Pryme Business4 currencies · one ledger
Base
₦127,328,879.23NGN · Nigerian Naira
$1,240.00USD · US Dollar
£480.00GBP · Pound Sterling
€310.00EUR · Euro
  • A named Naira account with Solid Allianze MFB — NDIC insured, your business name on it.
  • Real details abroad. A US account number, a UK sort code, an IBAN for the euro area.
  • Every currency has its own statement — regular or certified, with a code anyone can verify.
Swapping · in the app
4:34
‹···
Current account · NGN ₦127,328,879.23
SwapBoth balances move at once, on one ledger
Fill it inAsk Eva
$1 = ₦1,650.00
FromNGN ▾
250,000Available ₦127,328,879.23
ToUSD ▾
151.52after swap $1,391.52
Rate$1 = ₦1,650.00
Fee—
You get$151.52
NowWhen it hits

Eva waits for your rate and asks before she moves anything.

Target rate
$1 =1,585.00₦
Set the watch
Pryme Pay

Take money on your site, or on a checkout of your own.

No card, no OTP, nothing for the buyer to type in. They transfer from the bank app they already use, and the money lands in the same account your agents are running — already matched to the order, already in your books.

Pay from your bank app

We give the buyer a one-time account number. They transfer to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in.

Get the account number
  • Card details are never asked for, so they cannot leak.
  • The account is used once, then it closes.
  • Held with a licensed bank, insured by the NDIC.
Transfer exactly this amount

To this account, from any bank app. We watch it, and the page updates itself.

Send exactly₦26,767.50Copy
BankSolid Allianze MFB
Account number0000 000 000Copy
Account namePRYME / JOHNDOE‑ORD1042
Watching the account — nobody has to confirm anything.
Payment received

₦26,767.50 from GTBank · John D., matched to order ORD‑1042.

OrderORD-1042
Settled intoJohn Doe Trading Ltd · Naira account 0000 000 000
Receiptsent to the buyer
Get your receiptRun it again
Your checkout, your brand.On the site you already have, in your colours, on your own domain — or on a page we host for you.
A link for anything you sell.One price, one buyer, one link — sent on WhatsApp, Instagram or email, and paid the same way.
It lands already reconciled.Matched to the order, receipt issued, and in your books before you have looked at it.
Business Account

A team you did not have to hire.

Five agents come with the account. Each one has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

CS Chief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised — and keeps all three moving.

Booked a meeting with John Doe Foods for Thursday 11:00.
FI Finance Watches the money

Keeps the books as you trade and tells you the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SA Sales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the receipt already attached.

Recovered ₦410,000 across three overdue invoices.
SU Customer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Build on Pryme

Our rails, under your product.

Issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of your own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it. The same rails the Business Account runs on, with the licence behind them.

Read the API
Pryme Business

One business account. Every currency you trade in.

Dollars, pounds and euros beside a Naira account, on one ledger and one set of books. Five agents come with it and run the account — nothing leaves without your signature.

The Pryme Business home page: Naira, dollar and pound balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into

A team you did not have to hire

Five agents come with the account. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — they propose, you approve.

CSChief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised, and keeps all three moving.

Booked the quarterly review with your auditor for Thursday.
FIFinance Watches the money

Keeps the books in every currency you hold and flags the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SASales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the invoice and the receipt already attached.

Recovered $12,400 across three overdue invoices.
SUCustomer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Open a business account

Ten years, one trunk

The business has changed shape four times and never changed what it was rooted in. Each version was built out of what the last one could not do.

2016E-commerce

An online grocery store, built out of a faulty tab. Selling the food was the easy part — taking the money for it, and moving it, turned out to be the business.

2018OjirehPrime Card

A prepaid card. The first time the company issued rather than resold, and the first time it carried the obligations that come with holding somebody else’s money.

2020Microfinance bank

PrymeSolid Allianze acquired — an existing bank with an existing licence. The perimeter stopped being someone else’s to draw.

2023Multicurrency

More than one currency on one balance, and the rebrand to Pryme. A Nigerian business could hold dollars without holding a second institution.

2026Agentic operations

Accounts that do the work rather than only hold value. Five agents on the account, inside a policy you write — which is where the new mark starts.

Questions

The things people ask us first.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives people and businesses in Nigeria one account that holds Naira alongside dollars, pounds and euros, and a set of agents that do the running of it — keeping the books, chasing what is owed, answering customers and paying bills. Nothing leaves an account without the owner’s approval.

Can I hold dollars, pounds and euros in a Pryme account?

Yes. A Pryme account holds Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros side by side on one ledger, each with its own account details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area. You can swap between them at a rate you set, and every currency has its own statement.

What is Spaces?

Spaces is available in Nigeria. It gives a shopper money to spend that can only be spent with a participating business. The business is paid into its Naira account whether or not the shopper repays, because Pryme carries the credit. For the business it is free to join, there is nothing monthly, and the customer’s identity is never shown — only a reference and what it is worth.

What do the agents on a Pryme Business Account do?

Five agents come with the account. The Chief of Staff runs the week and keeps what is stuck moving. Finance watches the money and keeps the books as you trade. Compliance keeps the filings on time and screens what moves. Sales chases what you are owed. Customer Support answers your customers and follows up. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set, and each one proposes rather than acts — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

How does Pryme Pay work?

Pryme Pay takes payments on your own site or on a checkout page you control. The buyer is given a one-time account number and transfers to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in. The money lands in the same account your agents are running, already matched to the order and already in your books.

What are Savings Boxes?

Savings Boxes are separate pots inside a Pryme account, held in Naira. Flexible Boxes can be withdrawn at any time, Fixed Boxes hold to a date, Investment Boxes hold for longer, and Interest-free Boxes earn nothing by design. A business can use them to ring-fence payroll and the tax it withholds, so that money cannot be spent by accident.

Who holds my money, and is it protected?

Pryme is a financial technology company, not a bank. Accounts and deposits are provided by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Limited, which is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Can I build on Pryme?

Yes. Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives you one account that holds US dollars, pounds sterling and euros beside Naira, with an assistant that runs the account for you and asks before anything moves. Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, and further markets open as each licence lands.

Can I open a Pryme account from outside Nigeria?

Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, subject to verification and approval. Foreign-currency balances are held and converted inside that account, so you can hold, receive and swap dollars, pounds and euros wherever you are.

Which currencies can I hold with Pryme?

Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros, side by side on one ledger. Each has its own details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area — and each has its own statement.

How do I send money to Nigeria with Pryme?

Swap at a rate you set rather than the rate of the day, then send to any Pryme username or to a Nigerian bank account. There is no fee to send to another Pryme account.

What does the assistant do?

Eva is the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals, pays what is due and follows up what is owed to you — and asks you before anything moves.

What is Pryme Rails?

Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

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Explainers · Nigeria

BVN vs NIN: what each one is for and who can ask

The difference between Nigeria's BVN and NIN: who issues each, what they are used for, which accounts need both, and who is allowed to ask for them.

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Pryme editorialSafety · 16 Oct 2026 · 5 min read

Part of the guideIs your money safe in a Nigerian fintech?

The short answer

Your BVN is a banking identifier issued through your bank and managed by NIBSS for the financial sector; your NIN is your national identity number, issued by NIMC and used across government and private services. Banks and licensed fintechs may ask for either to open a basic account and must have both for Tier 2 and Tier 3 accounts; outside finance, only organisations with a lawful reason, such as telecoms, passport offices and employers, should ask for your NIN.

Nigerians are asked for both numbers so often that they blur together. They are different records, held by different bodies, for different purposes, and the rules on who may see them differ too. This article explains each and sits under our guide is your money safe in a Nigerian fintech?

Side by side

BVNNIN
Full nameBank Verification NumberNational Identification Number
Issued byYour bank, under the CBN's BVN frameworkNational Identity Management Commission (NIMC)
Database held byNigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS)NIMC
Format11 digits11 digits
Linked toFingerprints and face, and your bank accountsFingerprints, face and demographic details in the national identity database
Who may enrolAdults aged 18 and over (from 1 May 2026)Citizens and legal residents, including children
Main useIdentifying you across the banking systemIdentifying you to government and regulated private services
Who may access the recordCBN-licensed financial institutions, or others only with CBN approvalLicensed NIMC partners and verification agents, through approved channels

The headline difference: the BVN is a financial-sector record, and access is restricted to licensed financial institutions. The NIN is the national identity record, used across sectors, and verified through NIMC's licensed partners.

Which accounts need which

Since a CBN circular of 1 December 2023, no new account or wallet may be opened without a BVN or NIN. The rule applies by KYC tier:

  • Tier 1: BVN and/or NIN. Either is enough to open a basic, low-limit account.
  • Tier 2 and Tier 3: both BVN and NIN.
  • All tiers: details must be pulled electronically from the official databases, not typed in by staff, and onboarding must stop if what you provide does not match.

Funded Tier 1 accounts that carried neither number were restricted from 1 March 2024. If you have an old account with only one number attached, adding the other is what lets you move to a higher tier. Our explainer on KYC tiers and limits sets out the limits at each level.

Who is allowed to ask

For your BVN

Under the CBN's addendum to the BVN framework, effective 1 May 2026, access to BVN data is limited to CBN-licensed financial institutions, with exceptions only where the CBN approves them under existing law. In practice that means banks, microfinance banks, payment service banks, mobile money operators and other licensed payment providers, plus apps that verify through one of them. Many lookups now also require your consent through NIBSS's iGree layer, confirmed with a one-time code sent to your BVN-linked phone.

For your NIN

A wider group can lawfully ask: telecoms operators, the immigration service, tax and pension bodies, employers and schools, as well as financial institutions. They should verify it through NIMC's approved channels, not by photocopying your slip and storing it. In June 2024 NIMC blacklisted several unlicensed websites that had been selling NIN lookups, and said licensed partners may not scan or store NIN slips.

The virtual NIN: share a token, not the number

NIMC offers a virtual NIN (vNIN), a 16-character token you generate for a specific organisation. It can be used once and expires after 72 hours, so the organisation can verify you without keeping your actual NIN. You generate it in the NIMC mobile app, or by USSD using a code in the format *346*3*your NIN*the organisation's agent code#, from the phone number registered with your NIN.

Where an organisation accepts a vNIN, prefer it. If it is copied or leaked, it is useless within three days.

Keep the two records consistent

Because banks must pull your details electronically and stop onboarding when they do not match, small differences cause real problems. A name spelled one way on your BVN and another on your NIN, a swapped day and month in your date of birth, or a missing middle name can block an upgrade or a new account. Fixing it means correcting the record at source: through your bank for the BVN, and through NIMC for the NIN.

Phone numbers matter too. Under the 2026 BVN rules, the number linked to your BVN can be changed only once, and one-time codes for consent go to that number. Using the same stable number for both records means codes reach you, and makes it harder for anyone else to receive them. If you are about to change networks or let a SIM lapse, update your records first.

A worked example: opening and upgrading an account

Bisi is 24 and opening her first account in an app. Here is how each number is used.

  1. She opens a Tier 1 account with her NIN, entered in the app. The app pulls her details from NIMC and checks her selfie against the photo. She can now receive money, within Tier 1 limits.
  2. A month later, she wants to receive a ₦600,000 payment, more than a Tier 1 balance cap of ₦300,000 allows. To upgrade, she adds her BVN. The app checks it through NIBSS, with a one-time code to her phone to approve the lookup.
  3. She provides proof of address to reach the tier that allows larger balances.

At no point does anyone call her to collect a number. Every entry happens inside the app, at her request. If a request ever comes from outside that flow, our guide on whether it is safe to share your BVN covers the common scams.

Where Pryme fits

Pryme asks for your BVN and/or NIN when you open a Naira account in Nigeria, in line with CBN rules, which also require these numbers to be verified electronically against the official databases rather than typed in by staff. Verification is tiered: the more you verify, the more the account can do, and what each level asks for, and its limits, are shown in the app before you move up. See the multicurrency account for the currencies the account holds. Personal and Business accounts can be opened from any country, which suits people in the diaspora, freelancers and foreign firms; Savings Boxes and credit remain Naira-only. If you apply for Spaces credit, the lender, Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Ltd, draws on Nigeria's licensed credit bureaus, so repaying on time helps build a credit history.

For how these checks fit into the wider question of protecting your money, read our guide is your money safe in a Nigerian fintech?

Questions people ask

Is BVN the same as NIN?

No. The BVN is a banking identifier managed by NIBSS for the financial sector. The NIN is your national identity number, issued by NIMC. Both are 11 digits, which is why they are often confused.

Can I open a bank account with only my NIN?

Yes, for a Tier 1 account. CBN rules allow a BVN or NIN for Tier 1, but Tier 2 and Tier 3 accounts need both.

Who can ask for my BVN?

CBN-licensed financial institutions, and apps verifying through one, when you open or upgrade an account or apply for credit. Others need CBN approval. A shop, landlord or employer has no reason to ask for it.

What is a virtual NIN?

A 16-character token generated from your NIN for one organisation. It can be used once and expires after 72 hours, so you can be verified without handing over the NIN itself.

Do children have a BVN?

No. From 1 May 2026 BVN enrolment is limited to people aged 18 and over. Children can be enrolled for a NIN.

Sources

  1. CBN circular PSM/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/053 on Tier 1 accounts and wallets, 1 Dec 2023 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. CBN circular PSP/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/002: addendum to BVN operations and watchlist framework, 12 Mar 2026 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. Channels TV: what you must know as CBN tightens BVN rules from 1 May 2026 · accessed Oct 2026
  4. QoreID: introducing iGree, the BVN consent management system · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Youverify: NIMC launches virtual NIN (vNIN) · accessed Oct 2026
  6. TechCabal: unauthorised websites offer NIN verification despite NIMC blacklist (Jun 2024) · accessed Oct 2026
  7. CBN circular BPS/DIR/GEN/CIR/04/007 revising tiered KYC limits, 11 Sep 2017 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026

This article is general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Products described are provided under the terms on this site and are subject to regulation and eligibility.

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