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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: 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
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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
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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
Review
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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
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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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Sending money to Nigeria from Canada

Sending Canadian dollars to Nigeria: what transfers cost, how to check a provider with FINTRAC and the Bank of Canada, and how payouts arrive.

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Pryme editorialPayments · 16 Oct 2026 · 6 min read

Part of the guideSending money to Nigeria: the real cost, explained

The short answer

From Canada, the usual low-cost route to Nigeria is a digital money transfer provider registered with FINTRAC, funded from your bank account and paying naira into a Nigerian bank account. Costs from Canada are higher on average than from the UK or US: the World Bank put the average for sending from Canada to all countries at 5.98% in Q1 2025, so comparing the naira that arrives matters. Rates change daily.

Many Nigerians in Canada send money home every month, for parents, school fees and building projects. The route from Canada to Nigeria is smaller than the UK and US routes, and that shows in price and choice. This article covers what is specific to Canada. For the general method and Nigerian rules, read our guide to what sending money to Nigeria really costs.

What it costs from Canada

The World Bank does not publish a Canada to Nigeria corridor in the data we could access. The closest benchmark is its average for sending from Canada to every country it measures: 5.98% of a transfer worth $200 in Q1 2025. That is roughly double the US to Nigeria average of 2.72% and three times the UK to Nigeria average of 1.96% in Q3 2025. Treat 5.98% as a ceiling to beat, not a Nigeria figure; competitive providers on the Nigeria route can price well below it.

The total cost has two parts. One is the fee. The other is the exchange-rate margin, the gap between the rate you get and the mid-market rate. The Canadian dollar is not traded directly against the naira in any volume, so providers often convert through the US dollar. Each step is a chance for a margin, which is one reason quotes from Canada vary more.

Worked example: C$600 for a sibling's rent in Ibadan

Route (cost used)Total costValue that arrives
Specialist provider priced at the US to Nigeria average (2.72%)C$16.32C$583.68
Canada average, all destinations (5.98%)C$35.88C$564.12
Bank, global average (14.55%)C$87.30C$512.70

The difference between a well-priced provider and an average bank on one C$600 transfer is about C$71. Sent monthly, that is more than C$850 a year. The first row is an illustration of a competitive price, not a measured Canada figure.

Check the provider: FINTRAC and the Bank of Canada

Two public registers help you check a non-bank provider in Canada.

FINTRAC Money Services Business Registry
Money transfer businesses must register with FINTRAC, Canada's financial intelligence unit. The registry shows the business name, registration number and status. Registration means the business met the legal requirements to register; FINTRAC states it is not an endorsement or a licence. Statuses such as Revoked, Ceased or Expired mean the business is no longer registered.
Bank of Canada payment service provider registry
Under the Retail Payment Activities Act, many payment service providers must register with the Bank of Canada, which began publishing its registry in September 2025. Registered providers must meet expectations on operational risk and on safeguarding customer funds, and are supervised by the Bank.

Search the provider's legal name, not just the app's brand name, in both registers. A firm that is on neither and offers rates far better than everyone else is a warning sign. Unlicensed currency dealers who ask you to pay a private person in Canada in return for naira in Nigeria leave you with no protection if they disappear.

Your options from Canada

  • Digital money transfer providers. Funded by bank transfer or debit card; pay naira into a Nigerian bank account, often within minutes. Usually the best value for regular amounts.
  • Canadian banks. An international wire from your chequing account. Useful for large, planned sums such as a land purchase, where a bank's process and paper trail help, but rarely the cheapest for small amounts.
  • Agent-based operators. Cash or card at a counter, with cash pickup in Nigeria limited to the equivalent of $200 per payout.
  • Holding US dollars first. Some senders paid partly in US dollars, or who travel between the two countries, hold USD and convert to naira from there. This only helps if the CAD to USD step is cheap.

Interac e-Transfer is a domestic Canadian service and does not send money to Nigerian bank accounts directly, though some providers accept it as a way to fund a transfer.

How the money lands in Nigeria

Nigeria's payout rules are the same wherever you send from. Money sent through licensed transfer operators is paid in naira at a rate linked to the official market, and from 1 May 2026 it must pass through naira settlement accounts at authorised dealer banks. Payouts above the equivalent of $200 must go into a bank account. Our article on CBN rules on remittance payouts explains why, and what it means if your family wants to hold dollars instead.

  1. Confirm the recipient's name, bank and 10-digit NUBAN, and that the name returned by the provider matches.
  2. Check the provider on the FINTRAC registry, and on the Bank of Canada registry where it applies.
  3. Compare the naira received on your usual amount with at least three providers, on the same day.
  4. Fund from your bank account rather than a credit card, which may treat it as a cash advance.
  5. Keep receipts with the rate and fee for every transfer.

Paying the bill instead of sending cash

A large share of money sent from Canada ends up paying a specific bill: tuition, rent, a hospital invoice. Paying the institution directly, against an invoice and with a reference, means the money does what it was meant to and you keep a receipt. Our articles on paying school fees in Nigeria from abroad and paying family bills from abroad cover how.

Holding your own Nigerian account

If you send often, a Nigerian account in your own name gives you more control over when you convert and who you pay. Nigerians abroad can now get a Bank Verification Number online through the Non-Resident BVN, without travelling home; the application fee was $50 when it launched in 2025. Our NRBVN explainer sets out the documents and steps.

Where Pryme fits

Pryme's multicurrency account holds US dollars, pounds, euros and naira, with local account details for each; outside Nigeria, its activities are carried out through regulated partners. If you are paid in Canadian dollars, use a FINTRAC-registered provider that converts CAD to naira directly; the checklist above explains what to look for.

If you hold US dollars in a Pryme account, for example from a US client or employer, Swap converts them to naira when it suits you, with the rate shown before you confirm and any fee on its own line. A Pryme account can be opened from Canada, as from any country. Either way, the comparison method in our main guide to sending money to Nigeria applies.

Questions people ask

What is the cheapest way to send money from Canada to Nigeria?

Usually a FINTRAC-registered digital provider, funded from your bank account, paying naira into a Nigerian bank account. Compare the naira received on the same day across several providers, as a low fee can hide a wide exchange-rate margin.

How do I check if a money transfer company is legitimate in Canada?

Search its legal name on FINTRAC's Money Services Business Registry and, where it applies, the Bank of Canada's payment service provider registry. Registration is not an endorsement, but a firm on neither register should be avoided.

Can I use Interac e-Transfer to send money to Nigeria?

No. Interac e-Transfer works between Canadian accounts. Some transfer providers accept it as a way to pay them, and they then pay out in Nigeria.

Why is sending money from Canada to Nigeria more expensive than from the UK?

The route is smaller and less competitive, and the Canadian dollar is often converted through the US dollar before it becomes naira. The World Bank's Canada average for all destinations was 5.98% in Q1 2025, against 1.96% for UK to Nigeria in Q3 2025.

How long does a transfer from Canada to Nigeria take?

Through digital providers to a Nigerian bank account, often the same day once your identity has been verified. Bank wires can take one to three working days.

Sources

  1. World Bank: Remittance Prices Worldwide, Issue Q1 2025 · accessed Oct 2026
  2. World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide: United States to Nigeria · accessed Oct 2026
  3. World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide: United Kingdom to Nigeria · accessed Oct 2026
  4. FINTRAC: Money Services Business Registry · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Bank of Canada: Update on the payment service providers registry · accessed Oct 2026
  6. AllAfrica: CBN bans foreign currency payments for diaspora remittances from 1 May 2026 · accessed Oct 2026
  7. Kola King: CBN revised IMTO guidelines (January 2024) · accessed Oct 2026
  8. Kola King: Step-by-step guide on how Nigerians abroad can obtain BVN · 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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