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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
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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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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.
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Paid Ikeja Electric₦18,400 · token sent by SMS
Done
Swap $200 → ₦310,000?Rate locked at ₦1,550 for 30 s
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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
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Held a £2,000 transferNew payee · needs you
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Regulated partnersEvery currency held with a licensed institution in its market
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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
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🇪🇺 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.

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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Monthly budget for a Nigerian family in London: worked example

A sourced monthly budget for a Nigerian family of four in east London: rent, council tax, energy, travel and money home, with 2026 figures.

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Pryme editorialDiaspora desk, London · 24 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
The short answer

A Nigerian family of four renting a three-bedroom home in an outer London borough such as Barking and Dagenham should plan for roughly £3,800 a month in this worked example. Rent alone averaged £1,902 for a 3-bed there in September 2026 (ONS), and council tax, energy and one Zones 1-4 commute add about £600 more before food.

London is the most expensive region in the UK for renters. The Office for National Statistics put the average London private rent at £2,338 a month in September 2026, against £1,406 for the UK as a whole. For a family arriving from Lagos or Abuja, that one line decides almost everything else in the budget. This worked example builds a month for two adults and two school-age children in an outer east London borough, using official figures where they exist and clearly labelled allowances where they do not.

The household in this example

The family rents a three-bedroom house in Barking and Dagenham, a borough many Nigerian families already live in or near. Adult A works full-time on a salary of £38,000 and commutes into central London. Adult B works part-time and earns £15,000 a year. Both children attend state primary school. Every income and spending number below is an example for illustration, not a quote for your household.

Take-home pay (example)

  • Adult A, £38,000: Income Tax at 20% above the £12,570 Personal Allowance is £5,086. Employee National Insurance at 8% above the monthly threshold of £1,048 (about £12,576 a year) is about £2,033.92. Take-home before pension: about £30,880 a year, or £2,573.34 a month.
  • Adult B, £15,000: Income Tax £486 and National Insurance about £193.92, leaving about £14,320 a year, or £1,193.34 a month.
  • Household take-home before pension: £3,766.68 a month.

Tax rates are the 2026-27 figures on GOV.UK (6 April 2026 to 5 April 2027). Workplace pension contributions would reduce this further: the legal minimum for an employee is 5% of qualifying earnings between £6,240 and £50,270, which in this example is about £132 a month for Adult A and £36.50 for Adult B. Read our guide on whether to opt out of a workplace pension on a visa before deciding; for most people it means giving up the employer's contribution.

The month, line by line

ItemMonthlyBasis
Rent, 3-bed, Barking and Dagenham£1,902.00ONS average, Sept 2026
Council tax, Band C, 12 instalments£162.85MHCLG 2026-27: £1,954.23 a year
Gas and electricity£143.58Ofgem typical bill £1,723 a year, Oct-Dec 2026
TV licence£15.00GOV.UK: £180 a year
Adult A commute, Zones 1-4, capped£278.20TfL weekly cap £64.20 x 52 / 12
Adult B buses and local trips£60.00Example allowance
Water£45.00Example allowance
Phones and broadband£70.00Example allowance
Food and household shopping£650.00Example allowance
School costs, uniforms, after-school£200.00Example allowance
Support to family in Nigeria£150.00Example allowance
Clothing, church, gifts, small savings£150.00Example allowance
Total£3,826.63Worked example

The total of £3,826.63 is about £60 more than the household's take-home pay, and that is before any pension contribution. That is the honest picture for many London families on two modest incomes: the budget works only if one of the large lines comes down.

Where the official numbers come from

Rent

ONS figures for Barking and Dagenham in September 2026 were £1,378 for a one-bed, £1,723 for a two-bed and £1,902 for a three-bed. The borough's overall average of £1,700 was well below the London average because inner boroughs pull that figure up; Kensington and Chelsea averaged £3,739. Moving one zone further out or taking a two-bed flat is the single biggest saving available to this family.

Council tax

Council tax depends on the property's valuation band and the borough. For 2026-27 Barking and Dagenham's area charge for two adults is £1,709.95 in Band B, £1,954.23 in Band C and £2,198.51 in Band D. Neighbouring Lewisham's Band D is £2,237.33 and Croydon's is £2,599.91, so the borough you choose matters. Many councils collect over ten months by default; ask for twelve instalments if you want the smaller monthly figure used here. Our guide to how council tax works for new arrivals covers bands and discounts.

Energy and the TV licence

Ofgem's price cap for 1 October to 31 December 2026 puts a typical dual-fuel household paying by direct debit at £1,723 a year. A family of four in a house will often use more than Ofgem's typical household, so treat £143.58 a month as a floor. The cap is reset every three months, so check Ofgem's site for the current level. The TV licence is £180 a year if anyone watches live TV or uses BBC iPlayer.

Travel

Pay as you go caps in 2026 are £12.80 a day and £64.20 a week (Monday to Sunday) for Zones 1-4. A five-day commuter who reaches the daily cap each day pays £64.00, just under the weekly cap; the £278.20 monthly figure assumes the weekly cap is reached. Contactless gets the weekly cap on Tube and rail; Oyster's weekly cap covers bus and tram only, which our Oyster or contactless guide explains.

Where this budget can bend

  • Choose a two-bed: in this borough it averaged £1,723, saving £179 a month against the three-bed.
  • Check council tax discounts: a single adult household gets 25% off, and some people, such as full-time students, are disregarded when adults are counted.
  • Check entitlements before counting on them. Child Benefit and other support depend on immigration status; see Child Benefit on a UK visa and what no recourse to public funds means.
  • Plan money home as a fixed line, not an afterthought. Families in Nigeria often ask at school-fee time; budgeting a set amount monthly avoids raiding rent money in January and September.

Where Pryme fits

Pryme can be opened from the UK and holds pounds and naira in one account, so the £150 for family can sit in naira for bills at home while your London spending stays in pounds. Swap shows the rate and the fee before you approve a conversion, and Send pays Nigerian accounts. Outside Nigeria, Pryme's activities are carried out through regulated partners, and naira deposits are held by a licensed Nigerian microfinance bank.

Questions people ask

How much does a family of four need a month in London?

It depends mostly on rent. In this worked example a family renting a 3-bed in Barking and Dagenham spends about £3,827 a month, of which £1,902 is rent at the ONS September 2026 average for that borough.

Is £50,000 household income enough to live in London with kids?

In this example, two salaries totalling £53,000 leave about £3,767 a month after tax and National Insurance, slightly less than the £3,827 budget. It can work with a smaller home or lower travel costs, but there is little margin.

What is the average rent in London in 2026?

The ONS put the London average at £2,338 a month in September 2026, up 3.5% on a year earlier. Outer boroughs are lower; Barking and Dagenham averaged £1,700.

Do I pay council tax as a newcomer in London?

Yes, the adult who lives in the property and rents it is normally liable from the day the tenancy starts. The amount depends on your band and borough; register with the council as soon as you move in.

Sources

  1. ONS: Private rent and house prices, UK: October 2026 · accessed Oct 2026
  2. ONS: Housing prices in Barking and Dagenham (rents to September 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. MHCLG: Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Tables 1 to 9) · accessed Oct 2026
  4. Ofgem: Energy price cap will rise by 4% from October 2026 (26 Aug 2026) · accessed Oct 2026
  5. TfL: Adult rate prices 2026 (caps and Travelcards) · accessed Oct 2026
  6. GOV.UK: Income Tax rates and Personal Allowances · accessed Oct 2026
  7. GOV.UK: National Insurance, how much you pay · accessed Oct 2026
  8. GOV.UK: Workplace pensions, what you, your employer and the government pay · accessed Oct 2026
  9. GOV.UK: TV Licence · 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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