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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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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
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Received $2,400From a client · USD account
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Swap $200 → £—?Rate locked for 30 s
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Paid the light bill at home₦18,400 · Ikeja Electric
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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
PrymeBruceCare
Inside a mandate you write. Every action logged.
Multi-currency30 currencies on one balanceFlip
Locked rates30 s
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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
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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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Sending money home with USDT: what the law and risks say

What the SEC and CBN actually say about crypto in 2026, how USDT remittances work in practice, and why P2P trades can get a bank account restricted.

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Pryme editorialJapa & diaspora desk · 19 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
The short answer

Using USDT to send money home is not banned in Nigeria, but it sits outside the licensed remittance system. The Investment and Securities Act 2025 treats virtual and digital assets as securities and requires crypto service providers to register with the SEC, while the CBN's December 2023 guidelines let banks serve SEC-licensed providers but still bar banks from trading crypto themselves. The main risk is practical: naira from a peer-to-peer (P2P) buyer can be fraud money, and a fraud complaint can get the receiving bank account restricted.

Two regulators matter. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulates crypto as an investment product, and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decides what banks may do with crypto businesses. Neither has made it an offence for an individual to hold or receive USDT. What they regulate is the businesses that sit between you and the naira.

SEC: crypto is a securities matter

The Investment and Securities Act 2025, signed on 29 March 2025 and repealing the 2007 Act, defines securities in section 357 to include virtual and digital assets, according to an analysis by Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie published on Mondaq (13 May 2025). Virtual asset service providers (VASPs) must register with the SEC, and digital assets may be offered to the public only after SEC registration.

The SEC lists the firms it has admitted. Its Registered FinTech Operators page (published 25 May 2025) shows Busha Digital Ltd and Quidax Technologies Ltd under its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP) as digital asset exchanges. ARIP admission is a conditional approval-in-principle, not full registration, so check the page again before you rely on any exchange.

CBN: banks may serve licensed VASPs, not trade crypto

In February 2021 the CBN told banks to close accounts of people transacting in crypto. Its Guidelines on Operations of Bank Accounts for Virtual Assets Service Providers, issued on 22 December 2023 and reported by Nairametrics the same day, ended that restriction. Banks may now open designated accounts for VASPs that hold a valid SEC licence, but banks and other financial institutions remain "prohibited from holding, trading, and/or transacting in virtual currencies on their account".

In plain terms: a bank can bank a licensed exchange, and you can receive naira from that exchange. Your bank is not your crypto broker.

How a USDT remittance actually works

  1. The sender abroad buys USDT on an exchange or app.
  2. They send it to the recipient's wallet, often on an exchange the recipient uses in Nigeria.
  3. The recipient sells the USDT for naira, either directly to the exchange or to another user through a P2P market.
  4. In a P2P sale, the naira arrives in the recipient's bank account from the buyer's account, usually a stranger.

That last step is where most problems start. Exchanges also change their Nigerian services: Techpoint Africa reported on 5 March 2024 that Binance removed the naira from its P2P market from 28 February 2024 and then ended all naira services, giving users until 8 March 2024 to withdraw or convert. A route that works this year can close with little notice.

P2P risks and account restrictions

Nigerian law gives banks and agencies several ways to restrict an account, and a P2P trade can trigger them even if you did nothing wrong. Templars' ThoughtLab paper "Freezing Bank Accounts in Nigeria" (19 November 2025) sets them out:

  • A CBN circular of 11 June 2015 on industry fraud desks lets banks block or place "No Debit" restrictions on accounts when they receive a fraud complaint, a power later adopted in the CBN Instant (Inter-Bank) EFT Regulation 2018. If your P2P buyer paid you with money taken from a scam victim, the victim's complaint can follow the money to your account.
  • In Kuda MFB v Amarachi Kenneth Blessing (2024), the Court of Appeal accepted that account terms and CBN instruments allowed a restriction on a mistaken inflow without a court order.
  • The EFCC may issue a 72-hour stop order under the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022; after that a court order is needed, and courts have held that freezing without one is unlawful.

Other risks are less dramatic but common: USDT sent on the wrong network or to a mistyped address is usually lost, because crypto payments are generally not reversible; a P2P counterparty can claim non-payment; and none of the complaint routes that apply to licensed remittance companies covers a private trade.

How it compares with a licensed money transfer operator

PointUSDT via P2PCBN-licensed IMTO
Regulator for the payoutNone for the private tradeCBN licence; the operator appears on the CBN IMTO list
How the family receivesNaira from a stranger's accountNaira from the operator's settlement bank
RateSet by the P2P marketBenchmarked to market prices under the CBN policy from 1 May 2026
Complaint routeExchange support only, if anyOperator, then the regulator

Since 1 May 2026, licensed IMTOs must pay retail remittances in naira at rates benchmarked to real-time market prices, as Techeconomy explained on 28 March 2026. For many families that removes the old reason to use crypto, a better rate than the official one. See our explainer on CBN remittance rules and how to check an IMTO is licensed.

What to check first

  1. Is the exchange on the SEC's registered operators page, and in what category?
  2. If you sell P2P, does the buyer's account name match the name on the platform?
  3. Is the amount you are receiving consistent with your normal account activity? Unusual inflows draw attention.
  4. Have you compared the naira the family gets through a licensed operator on the same day?
  5. Do you keep records of each trade: wallet address, network, counterparty and bank reference?

Where Pryme fits

If your family abroad wants to send dollars rather than naira, a Pryme multicurrency account has USD, GBP and EUR account details, and money stays in the currency it arrived in until you choose to Swap it, with the rate shown first. Read remittance scams targeting the diaspora before using any informal route.

Questions people ask

Is it illegal to receive USDT from abroad in Nigeria?

No law we found makes it an offence for an individual. Crypto businesses must register with the SEC under the ISA 2025, and banks may not trade crypto on their own account.

Can my bank account be frozen for selling USDT?

The sale itself is not the usual trigger. A fraud complaint about the naira you received can lead a bank to place a restriction, as the CBN fraud desk circular allows.

Is Binance P2P still available for naira?

Techpoint Africa reported that Binance ended naira services in March 2024. Check any exchange's current Nigerian services before use.

Is USDT cheaper than LemFi or Remitly for sending money home?

Not reliably. Compare the naira the recipient actually gets on the same day, and add the cost of P2P risk.

Sources

  1. Mondaq (Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie): What the ISA 2025 means for digital and virtual assets (13 May 2025) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. Nairametrics: CBN releases guidelines for regulating virtual assets (22 Dec 2023) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. SEC Nigeria: Registered FinTech Operators (25 May 2025) · accessed Oct 2026
  4. Techpoint Africa: Binance stops naira services (5 Mar 2024) · accessed Oct 2026
  5. Templars ThoughtLab: Freezing bank accounts in Nigeria (19 Nov 2025) · accessed Oct 2026
  6. Techeconomy: What the CBN naira-only remittance policy means (28 Mar 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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