SC Ventures, the innovation, fintech funding, and ventures arm of Commonplace Chartered, and NEXT176, the enterprise arm of the Pan-African group Outdated Mutual, have introduced the launch of a brand new wealth administration platform.

This collaboration goals to make monetary planning instruments extra accessible to the broader public, marking a serious step in the direction of democratising wealth administration.

The partnership brings collectively Autumn, a monetary objectives planning app supported by SC Ventures and incubated in Singapore, with 22seven, a South African funds monitoring app backed by NEXT176. Topic to regulatory approvals, the merger is anticipated to conclude within the second quarter of 2024.

This merger goals to create a platform that provides easy, reasonably priced, and AI-driven wealth administration options, together with Shariah-compliant choices, for customers within the Center East, Africa, and past.

Scheduled to be based mostly within the United Arab Emirates, the platform seeks to supply complete budgeting, financial savings, and funding providers to areas together with the Center East, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

This initiative is anticipated to have a serious affect on future generations by bettering monetary literacy and entry to wealth administration instruments.

It targets a good portion of the estimated US$2.4 trillion of investable wealth in Africa, aiming to increase wealth administration providers past high-net-worth people to the common particular person.

Alex Manson

“At SC Ventures, we imagine strongly in bettering entry to monetary providers by means of a mixture of literacy and digital-first platforms. This partnership is a powerful instance and can contribute to rewiring the DNA in Banking and monetary providers in our communities.

 

In NEXT176, we discovered a strategic associate with a shared imaginative and prescient to democratise wealth administration. We’re trying ahead to an impactful enterprise that can assist its shoppers take possession of their monetary future.”

stated Alex Manson, who leads SC Ventures.

Vuyo Mpako

“It is a important milestone for 22seven and aligns with NEXT176’s aspiration of positively impacting a billion lives with a product that provides impactful insights into their monetary lives throughout our key geographies on the African continent, and increasing to Southeast Asia and the Center East.

 

We imagine that this merger will additional improve collaboration alternatives between SCV and NEXT176.”

stated Vuyo Mpako, Managing Director, NEXT176.