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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.
Open a personal account How we keep your money safe
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
PrymeBruceCare
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
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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.

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  • 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.

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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

KYC tiers in Nigeria: Tier 1, 2 and 3 limits

What Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 accounts need in Nigeria, the CBN's daily and balance limits for each, and how to upgrade when you hit a cap.

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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

Under the CBN's tiered KYC framework, a Tier 1 account needs basic details plus a BVN or NIN and is capped at ₦50,000 a day and a ₦300,000 balance; Tier 2 needs both BVN and NIN and allows ₦200,000 a day and a ₦500,000 balance; Tier 3 adds full KYC including proof of address, with a ₦5,000,000 daily limit and no balance cap. Providers may set lower limits of their own, so check your app's tier screen.

Know-your-customer (KYC) tiers let people open a basic account quickly, while keeping larger sums behind stronger identity checks. That trade-off is part of why your money is protected: an account that lets anyone move millions without verification is an account fraudsters will use. For the full picture of licences, insurance and data, see our guide is your money safe in a Nigerian fintech?

The three tiers at a glance

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) introduced three-tiered KYC in January 2013 and revised the limits in September 2017. The BVN and NIN requirements were tightened by a circular of 1 December 2023. These are the published CBN limits as of October 2026.

TierWhat you provideDaily transaction limitMaximum balance
Tier 1Name, photo, date of birth, phone number, address details; BVN or NIN₦50,000₦300,000
Tier 2As Tier 1, plus verified ID; BVN and NIN₦200,000₦500,000
Tier 3Full KYC, including verified proof of address; BVN and NIN₦5,000,000No cap

What each tier is for

Tier 1: getting started

Tier 1 exists for financial inclusion. It lets someone with no utility bill or formal address receive money, pay for things and save small amounts. Since December 2023 every Tier 1 account must carry a BVN or NIN, pulled electronically from the official database. Funded Tier 1 accounts without either were placed on "post no debit or credit" from 1 March 2024.

Tier 2: everyday use

Tier 2 suits most salaried people with modest balances. It requires both your BVN and NIN and a verified ID. Our explainer on BVN vs NIN covers what each one is and why both are needed here.

Tier 3: full access

Tier 3 is a fully verified account, with proof of address checked. It is what you need for a salary that arrives in one payment above ₦500,000, for business receipts, for saving toward a large purchase, or for anything that keeps your balance high.

A worked example: when the cap bites

Tunde has a Tier 2 account holding ₦420,000. A client pays him ₦250,000 for a job.

  1. His balance would become ₦670,000, above the Tier 2 maximum of ₦500,000.
  2. Depending on the provider, the incoming payment may be rejected and returned to the sender, or held until he upgrades.
  3. Even if it arrives, he could send at most ₦200,000 a day, so paying a ₦350,000 supplier would take two days.
  4. After he upgrades to Tier 3 by verifying his address, the balance cap falls away and his daily limit rises to ₦5,000,000.

The fix took him one proof-of-address upload. The cost of not doing it was a bounced payment and an awkward call with his client. If you expect larger sums, upgrade before you need to.

How to upgrade, and what to have ready

  • For Tier 2: your BVN and NIN, both matching your name and date of birth exactly, and a valid ID if the provider asks for one.
  • For Tier 3: a recent utility bill, tenancy agreement or similar document showing your address, matching the name on your account. Some providers verify address by other means, such as a field visit or a third-party address check.
  • Phone number: the number linked to your BVN, since one-time codes go there.
  • Patience with mismatches: if your BVN and NIN records differ, the check will fail until you correct the record at source.

Upgrade only inside your bank's official app, website or branch. Anyone who messages you offering to "upgrade your account" or "remove your limit" for a fee is running a scam. Our article on whether it is safe to share your BVN covers the usual scripts.

Why the limits protect you

Limits feel like friction. They also do three useful things. They make it hard for a fraudster to open an account in your name and move large sums through it. They cap how much can leave your account in one day if someone does get in. And they force the identity checks that let the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation find and pay you if a bank fails, as explained in our article on NDIC insurance limits.

A provider that offers to let you skip verification while moving large amounts is breaking the rules, not doing you a favour. That is a reason to be careful with it.

Limits that sit on top of your tier

Tier limits are not the only caps you will meet. As the CBN tightened BVN rules from 1 May 2026, Channels TV reported that mobile banking would be tied to one device at a time per account, and that transfers in the first 24 hours after activating a banking app on a new device would be capped at ₦20,000. If you have just changed phones and a transfer fails, this is the likely reason, not your tier.

You can also set limits yourself. Most apps let you choose a daily transfer limit below your tier's ceiling. Setting it to what you actually spend in a normal day, and raising it only when you need to, is one of the simplest protections against account takeover. A fraudster who gets in cannot move more than the limit you chose, and raising it usually requires extra verification.

Where Pryme fits

Pryme uses tiered verification for its accounts; in Nigeria, Naira deposits are held by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Ltd. 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. For a Naira account in Nigeria, a BVN and/or NIN is required, in line with CBN rules. 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. The multicurrency account page shows the currencies the account holds.

As with any provider, the limits that apply to you are the ones shown in the app, which may be lower than the CBN maximums in the table above. For everything else to check before trusting a provider, see our guide to whether your money is safe in a Nigerian fintech.

Questions people ask

What is the Tier 1 limit in Nigeria?

Under the CBN framework, a Tier 1 account is limited to ₦50,000 in daily transactions and a maximum balance of ₦300,000. Your provider may set a lower limit.

How do I upgrade from Tier 1 to Tier 3?

Add the identifiers your current tier lacks (both BVN and NIN), then verify your address with a recent utility bill or similar document. Do it only in your bank's official app, website or branch.

What happens if I receive more than my tier allows?

The payment may be rejected and returned, or held until you upgrade, depending on the provider. Upgrade before expecting a large payment.

Does Tier 3 have a limit?

Tier 3 has no maximum balance under the CBN framework, but a daily transaction limit of ₦5,000,000 is widely published for it. Banks may also apply their own limits for security.

Why does my bank limit me even though I am Tier 3?

Providers add their own security limits, such as caps on transfers in the first 24 hours after you sign in on a new device. These sit on top of the CBN's tier limits.

Sources

  1. CBN circular FPR/DIR/CIR/GEN/02/001 on three-tiered KYC, 18 Jan 2013 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. CBN circular BPS/DIR/GEN/CIR/04/007 revising tiered KYC limits, 11 Sep 2017 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. InvestData: CBN revises three-tier KYC limits, September 2017 · accessed Oct 2026
  4. CBN circular PSM/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/053 on Tier 1 accounts and wallets, 1 Dec 2023 (via RegAlert) · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Channels TV: what you must know as CBN tightens BVN rules from 1 May 2026 · 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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