Collaboration brings open-source, real-time transaction monitoring for fraud to interoperable instant payments across Africa and beyond
Kigali, Rwanda – December 5, 2025 – Tazama, the FREE open-source, real-time transaction monitoring platform for fraud prevention, today announced a strategic partnership with WiredIn, a leading African technology and integration firm, following the successful completion of the first joint implementation of Tazama and Mojaloop with RSwitch, the national e-payment switch of Rwanda.
This landmark deployment combines RSwitch’s interoperable payments infrastructure, Mojaloop’s open-source instant payment system, and Tazama’s real-time fraud monitoring capabilities, with WiredIn serving as the primary integration and implementation partner. Together, Tazama and WiredIn have delivered a powerful, scalable solution that helps protect instant payments and strengthens trust in Rwanda’s digital financial ecosystem.
“WiredIn has been an exceptional partner in turning our open-source vision into real-time fraud protection at scale,” said Greg McCormick, Executive Director of Tazama. “Their deep engineering expertise and understanding of local market realities allowed us to integrate Tazama with Mojaloop and RSwitch in a way that is both technically robust and operationally practical. This partnership proves that African engineering talent, combined with open-source digital public goods, can deliver world-class real-time transaction monitoring for emerging markets.”
In the RSwitch implementation, WiredIn led systems integration, local customization, and deployment, ensuring that Tazama’s transaction monitoring framework was tightly aligned with the needs of Rwanda’s instant payments environment. The joint solution, -developed with Mojaloop, is designed to help financial institutions detect suspicious activity in real time, respond to fraud more quickly, and protect end-user, especially those who are newly included in the formal financial system.
“Tazama is exactly the kind of open, collaborative platform we want to build around,” said Alain Kajangwe the CEO of WiredIn. “By pairing Tazama’s real-time transaction monitoring with Mojaloop’s interoperable payment rails, we can help central switches, banks, fintechs, and mobile money providers across the continent deliver safer, more trusted instant payments. Our work with RSwitch is just the beginning—we see enormous potential to replicate and scale this model across Africa and Asia.”
The partnership between Tazama and WiredIn is structured to be long-term and impact-focused. WiredIn will continue to serve as a key implementation and engineering partner for future Tazama deployments, offering:
- Systems integration and local customization for central banks, switches, and scheme operators
- On-the-ground implementation support, training, and change management
- Ongoing enhancements that reflect local regulatory, fraud, and operational realities
For Tazama, this collaboration is a critical step toward its ambition to become the de facto open-source solution for real-time transaction monitoring for fraud in emerging economies. By working closely with regional partners like WiredIn, Tazama can ensure that its platform not only meets global best practices but also reflects the lived realities of local markets and vulnerable users.
“As we grow our footprint across Africa and Asia, partnerships with trusted, capable integrators like WiredIn are absolutely essential,” McCormick added. “They enable us to move faster, deploy more responsibly, and ensure that the benefits of safer instant payments reach the people who need them most.”
The success of the RSwitch implementation is already informing joint plans for expansion to additional markets. Tazama and WiredIn are now actively engaging with other switches, central banks, and payment schemes that want to combine open-source instant payments with open-source, real-time transaction monitoring for fraud as part of their digital public infrastructure.
About Tazama
Tazama is an open-source, free, real-time transaction monitoring platform focused on fraud prevention in emerging markets. Governed under a charitable structure of the Linux Foundation and recognized as a Digital Public Good, Tazama equips financial institutions, payment schemes, and regulators with tools to detect and prevent fraud and scams across instant payments. Tazama’s mission is to protect vulnerable users and strengthen trust in digital financial ecosystems through open collaboration, shared intelligence, and inclusive design.
About WiredIn
WiredIn is a Rwanda-based technology company specializing in software development, systems integration, and digital solutions for financial services, telecommunications, and public-sector clients. With deep local expertise and a strong track record delivering complex projects across Africa, WiredIn partners with global and regional organizations to build resilient, scalable, and inclusive digital infrastructure that serves both institutions and end users.