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Solutions · Digital Lenders

Ustawi for digital lenders.

A digital lender lives or dies on speed — but speed without compliance is how a fast-growing book becomes a regulatory problem. Ustawi lets a lean approval ladder move small loans quickly while AML screening, mobile money collection, and BOT-aligned reporting run inside the same workflow, not bolted on afterward.
Applications today
312 · avg decision 3.4 min
Repayments
Mobile money collection
AML/PEP screening
In the origination workflow
app.ustawi.co.tz
Digital lending ops
Fast origination · mobile money collections
Apps · today
312
Avg decision
3.4 min
PAR30
5.1%
Applications today by stage
312
Applied
288
AML clear
214
Approved
206
Disbursed
Fast on clean cases, compliant on the rest

Why Ustawi fits a digital lender

Fast for the borrower, controlled for the lender

The borrower deals with a phone; the operations team works every case from one queue.

A smiling boda boda rider on his motorbike checking a mobile money message on his phone, other riders on the street behind him
A boda rider checks a mobile money message on his phone between trips.
Four members of a lending operations team working side by side on laptops in a bright office
The operations team works through applications and follow-ups on their laptops.

One small loan, one flow

Screening, approval, mobile money repayment and follow-up are steps in the same flow — not separate systems bolted on afterward.

Loan #8790Moving through Ustawi
1
Application received
No branch visit
Captured straight into the origination workflow

Tap a stage to stop on it. Hover pauses the animation.

Try it yourself

Move the amount and the screening result: clean small loans need one tier, larger ones climb the ladder, and an alert stops the loan until it is adjudicated.

Try it: route a small loan
AML/PEP screening result
Route for this application
Screening · clear→Loan officer→Credit committee→Board
Approval tiers needed
1 of 3
Next step
Loan officer decides
Set your own product bands

An alert is adjudicated before the loan moves on. Products, tiers and amount bands are configured per institution.

Apps digital lenders typically enable

Compliance without the overhead

Compliance is usually framed as the thing that slows disbursement down. Ustawi's approach is to make it a step in the same flow rather than a separate gate: AML/PEP screening runs as the application is processed, an alert is adjudicated before it becomes a filing, and the STR reporting clock is tracked automatically. The lender moves fast on the clean cases and only slows down where the rules genuinely require it.

From payment exports to one loan record

Drag the slider: the same loan, pieced together from exports versus kept in Ustawi.

momo_repayments_export.csv
#884148,000paidok
#8790120,000which ref?late?
#8712260,000—ask collections
unmatched#REF!no ref?
Was #8790 screened?
When did it go late?
Loan #8790
Status
14 DPD · bucket 1–30
In DPD queue
TSh 120k
Collections
Reminder sent
Repayment channel
Mobile money
AML/PEP
Screened at origination
Audit trail
Every step, actor and time
✓ Screening, repayments and follow-up on one record
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Frequently asked questions

Yes, it's gated by configurable product amount bands.