Fawry

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Key Partners

• 300k+ agents: kiosks, groceries, pharmacies with POS terminals
• Billers: utilities, telecoms, schools, government services
• Banks — Fawry connects them rather than fighting them
• The Central Bank of Egypt and its financial-inclusion agenda
• Merchants adopting Fawry acceptance and myFawry

Key Activities

• Operating the switching and settlement platform 24/7
• Recruiting and servicing the nationwide agent network
• Onboarding billers and integrating collection flows
• Expanding up the stack: acceptance, banking services, lending
• Compliance with central-bank regulation

Key Resources

• The agent network — 300k+ points of physical presence
• Direct integrations into hundreds of billers
• Central-bank licenses accumulated over 15 years
• Transaction data across millions of daily payments

Value Proposition

• Consumers: pay any bill in cash, at the shop downstairs, in seconds
• Billers: collections from the unbanked majority, reconciled digitally
• Agents: extra income and foot traffic from a small terminal
• Merchants and SMEs: acceptance, wallets, and working-capital loans

Customer Relationships

• Ubiquity as the relationship — Fawry is simply 'there'
• myFawry app for the smartphone-first generation
• Agent support and commission structures that keep the network loyal
• Enterprise account management for billers and large merchants

Channels

• The physical network — the kiosk IS the channel
• myFawry app and web
• Bank and telco partnerships
• Biller co-promotion ('pay via Fawry' printed on every invoice)

Customer Segments

• Egypt's cash-first majority paying bills and topping up
• The banked minority who still find Fawry more convenient
• Billers: utilities, telcos, government, education
• SMEs needing acceptance and credit
• Agents as a segment of their own — the network must be won too

Cost Structure

• Agent commissions on every transaction
• Platform operations, switching, and settlement
• Terminal deployment and maintenance
• Compliance, risk, and credit provisioning for lending

Revenue Streams

• Transaction fees on bill payments and top-ups
• Acceptance revenue from merchants
• Banking services, wallets, and agent banking
• Microfinance and SME lending — the margin frontier