Because you need to plan and trade on robust, honest, and independently-obtained data
Every day we capture and structure how the world’s leading providers price transfers into Africa — across 35 major African corridors that move over $79 billion annually in diaspora remittances. We license that intelligence — retrospective and prospective, off-the-shelf and custom — to the fintechs, banks, investors and researchers who need to understand this market.
Why our data is different
Public FX data tells you the mid-market rate. It does not tell you what a real person actually receives after every provider’s rate, spread and fees — the number that decides where billions of dollars of remittances flow. That is exactly what we measure, consistently, every day, across the corridors that matter. Because we have captured it continuously, we can show you not just where pricing is today, but where it has been and where it is heading.
Proprietary first-party demand intelligence — aggregated, anonymised corridor search & click-through activity, sender origination geography & price-sensitivity signals, captured on our platform and never published publicly.
Retrospective data
The full historical record — what every provider charged, and how they ranked, on any day we’ve tracked.
Historical rate archives
Daily effective-rate and mid-market time-series for every provider and corridor we track, going back to launch and growing each day — the raw series behind our on-site charts, delivered in full.
Spread & margin history
How each provider’s spread over the mid-market rate has moved over time, per corridor — quantify who is getting cheaper, who is widening margins, and when.
Rank & win-rate history
Day-by-day competitive ranking of every provider on payout and on user rating, so you can see who led a corridor on any given date and for how long.
Cross-currency correlation history
How each sending and destination currency has trended across every corridor it touches, and how closely African currencies have moved together over time — the co-movement matrix behind our inter-currency analysis.
Performance benchmarking
Every provider’s long-term performance on a corridor measured against three references over any timeframe — the top performer, the bottom performer and the average of all providers — computed from the real readings we capture at every refresh. Extends beyond the on-site month to full-year and premium-licensed multi-year horizons.
Provider & coverage reference
Structured reference data: providers, corridors, payout and funding methods, HQ, verification status and store-rating history — clean, joined and analysis-ready.
Prospective data
Live feeds and forward-looking signals — what pricing is doing now and where the momentum points.
Live rate feeds & API
Programmatic, low-latency access to the same quotes that power the site — refreshed on our production schedule — for embedding in your own pricing, treasury or comparison tools.
Momentum & volatility signals
Forward-looking corridor and provider momentum: short-window rate change, volatility bands and directional signals, updated as new observations land.
Inter-currency trend signals
Live cross-corridor movement aggregated by sending and destination currency, plus day-to-day co-movement patterns between African currencies — see which whole currencies are strengthening or weakening, not just single pairs.
Per-refresh performance dynamics
Intraday, per-refresh benchmark tracking — how each provider’s standing versus the top, bottom and market average shifts through the day, not just a single daily snapshot. The granular series behind our dynamic performance charts.
Custom modelling & research
Bespoke cuts, backtests and benchmarking built to your question — corridor deep-dives, competitor tracking, pricing-gap studies and market-entry sizing.
Branded market intelligence
White-label reports, recurring corridor briefings and chart packs licensed for your research desk, investor updates or newsroom.
Custom & existing datasets
Start from our existing off-the-shelf datasets, or commission a custom build. We routinely assemble corridor deep-dives, competitor-tracking dashboards, pricing-gap studies, historical backtests and market-sizing models. Delivery is flexible — one-off extracts, scheduled files, a live API, or a fully managed data feed under SLA.
Who licenses BestAfricanFX data
Fintechs & money-transfer operators
Benchmark your payout against the market in real time and price with confidence.
Banks & treasury teams
Independent corridor pricing and spread history for FX desks and cost analysis.
Investors & analysts
Market-sizing, competitive dynamics and diligence inputs across African corridors.
Media & researchers
Citable, methodology-backed data for stories, papers and policy work.
Plus is for people. Data licences are for organisations.
A Plus account helps an individual make a smarter transfer — it unlocks alerts, deeper history views and trends on the site for personal, non-commercial reference. It does not grant the right to extract, warehouse, redistribute or commercialise the underlying data. Institutional access — bulk history, API feeds, custom cuts, redistribution rights and support under SLA — is available only under a written data-licence agreement. Licensed data is watermarked and access is monitored to protect both our customers and the integrity of the dataset.
Licensing & permitted use
All rates, histories, analytics, reports and reference data on BestAfricanFX are the proprietary intellectual property of BestAfricanFX. Data cannot be used, copied, redistributed, resold, republished, scraped, cached for redistribution, used to train models, or used to build a competing or derivative product without the express written permission of BestAfricanFX. A personal or Plus subscription grants access for individual, internal, non-commercial reference only — it does not grant any right to extract, redistribute or commercialise the underlying data. Commercial, institutional and redistribution rights are available exclusively under a written data-licence agreement. Licensed feeds are watermarked and access is monitored.
Let’s talk about your use case
Tell us the corridors, the history depth and the delivery format you need, and we’ll send documentation, sample data and pricing.
Note: rates showing a Last updated time come from published provider rate sources refreshed every six hours; rates marked Indicative are reference figures rather than provider quotes.