Africa-Press – South-Africa. Stephen Grootes speaks to Optasia Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Salvador Anglada, about its exceptional 2025 results, the company’s strategic shift toward higher margin micro finance services and its rapid global expansion.
Global fintech company Optasia says demand for digital financial services across emerging markets helped power strong growth in 2025, as the company expanded its reach, grew its user base and sharpened its focus on microfinance.
During 2025, Optasia rolled out eight new deployments globally, extending its digital finance services to more countries and telecom partners.
As a result, the company’s platform now reaches more than 432 million users worldwide.
Optasia works mainly through mobile operators, allowing customers to access services such as instant microloans, airtime credit and digital financial products directly from their mobile phones.
For many users in developing economies, this type of service can act as a first step into the formal financial system.
A key part of Optasia’s strategy is a stronger focus on higher-margin microfinance services.
These include short-term, small-value loans that can help customers pay for everyday needs such as data bundles, airtime or small emergencies.
Speaking to Africa Melane on The Money Show, Optasia Group CEO Salvador Anglada says demand for these types of services is growing quickly as mobile connectivity expands across Africa, Asia and other emerging regions.
“It’s important of course how the business is progressing. Opening up new countries, being able to extend our services not only in Africa, but also in Asia and provide services to more than 400 million customers last year. This is a very important part of what we’re doing.”
– Salvador Anglada, CEO – Optasia Group
“We were able to open up microfinance solutions in Cameroon. We did the same in Congo. In Ghana. For us it’s a combination of deployment in existing countries, and new ones that will be mature in some quarters from here.”
– Salvador Anglada, CEO – Optasia Group
“We have been able to learn a lot, and to demonstrate that the model that we have is the one that is working. We partner with local entities…and we’re able to educate the market in the usage of those services.”
– Salvador Anglada, CEO – Optasia Group
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