TetradPay, a fast-growing cross-border payments company, held its inaugural Tetrad Business Connect event on Friday, November 21, 2025, bringing together customers, partners, and leaders in Nigeria’s fintech ecosystem to discuss the future of remittances and business payments.
In his opening remarks, TetradPay’s CEO, Wale Oyewo, thanked attendees for trusting the company with “cross-border payment transactions into millions of dollars without ever seeing us physically or knowing us personally.”
Giving a keynote at the event, OPay’s Chief Operating Officer and CTO, Dotun Adekunle, praised TetradPay for its growing role in simplifying cross-border payments for African businesses.
Speaking to an audience of merchants, partners, and financial executives in Lagos, Adekunle said TetradPay is focusing on “an area that is particularly touching to me,” describing cross-border payments as critical to Africa’s economic future.
Adekunle used his keynote to emphasise that Africa remains “a continent of 54 countries still very much dissected,” and argued that the ability to move money seamlessly across borders, and beyond the continent, is a prerequisite for real economic integration. He noted that in a world where payments are becoming “instant… intelligent, and invisible,” trust has become the core product that fintechs must offer.
“In payments, everything that we do is centred around trust,” he said. “Trust is the most valuable currency — the real product that we have.”
His remarks were themes that TetradPay repeatedly highlighted throughout the programme.
Why Tetrad Business Connect matters
TetradPay is a Nigerian cross-border payments company that has quietly grown through merchant referrals and trust, rather than relying on heavy marketing.
Oyewo noted that, in 2025 alone, TetradPay processed “over ₦200 billion on behalf of yourselves this year,” and already serves 75,000 users in the UK, with ambitions to expand to Canada, attributing that milestone to customer loyalty and word-of-mouth referrals.
He positioned TetradPay as a company built on making cross-border payments “seamless, secure, and stress-free for businesses,” while emphasising that every transaction represents a story: “behind every payment, there’s a relationship behind every business challenge, there is a human being trying to build something meaningful.”
The CEO also stated that TetradPay’s ambition for 2026 is to deepen compliance, enhance technology, and expand international reach.
As the event progressed, TetradPay’s leadership gave guests a clearer picture of why the company is attracting endorsements from major players.
Oyewo emphasised that the company’s mission is simple but ambitious: “to make cross-border payments seamless, secure, and stress-free for businesses.”
Nigerian businesses now move more money internationally than ever, but banking delays, compliance red tape, and FX uncertainty have pushed many to seek alternative fintech rails.
According to Techpoint Africa, Nigeria’s cross-border fintechs such as Grey, LemFi, and Raenest have surged in adoption over the last two years as businesses look for faster settlement, more transparent fees, and multi-currency flexibility.
At TetradPay’s event, this context was evident: almost every speaker touched on reliability, compliance, and speed as the determining factors for modern payment providers.
It was a reminder that for SMEs, importers, exporters, and digital entrepreneurs, seamless cross-border payments are not a luxury—they are the lifeline of growth.
Throughout the event, merchants shared anecdotes about faster settlement times and improved compliance. Wale Agbeyongi, Group Managing Director of Cordros Capital, said his company had struggled with cross-border payments for over three years, with some platforms being illegitimate.
“We found Tetrad, and it has been a mutually beneficial relationship based on trust. They are very swift, and I believe there’s room for us to do much more in the future.”
TetradPay’s ability to serve customers well lies in the years of experience its founders bring to the startup. Oyewo, who used to be a banker at Bank of America, has co-founders who bring deep engineering and sales knowledge that has helped the business grow fast. From feedback given by customers, TetradPay has mastered speed and trust, but as the global regulatory and technological landscape continues to evolve, the company’s leadership assures customers of continued improvement.
