Payr. × Zuba
Confidential · prepared for Zuba
Anas Ben Mejdoub · Ryad

The money rails into Africa are broken.
We own the side nobody else can build.

Zuba moves money across the world. The one place a global rail can't legally land is the one that matters most for this continent — and that's exactly the piece we hold. This is what we'd build together, what the market looks like, and what each side brings.

Morocco remittances$12.9bn / yr
Tourism by 2030$20bn
World Cup2030 · co-host
Merchants unserved~95%

The proposition

why these two halves are worth more together

Payr is the settlement layer — a single API that collects in one country and pays out, in local currency, in another, fast and cheap, on stablecoin rails. Other companies plug their app into it. Two halves make it work, and we each own one.

Zuba brings

The global send-side

The built rail — collection, FX, the stablecoin transport, the Canadian (FINTRAC) wrapper, compliance, the global send corridors, the capital and the team. The pipe that moves value across the world in seconds.

Ryad brings

The African endpoint

Atlas — a licensed Moroccan payments processor we control: the certified switch, the 180-bank network, the local pay-out and merchant rails. The receive-side a global pipe cannot legally build, plus the market access and the 2030 catalyst.

Payr is

The thing on top

A 60 / 40 company — Ryad-majority — that stitches the two into one product. Zuba folds under the Payr umbrella; Atlas serves it as the Morocco endpoint. The brain, the API and the corridors are built once and owned together.

Zuba's rail moves money up to the border. Morocco is walled — capital controls, licensing — so a foreign rail can't land there. Atlas is the border crossing. Without it, the African thesis is a pipe with nowhere legal to land.

What's inside

four pages
01

Infrastructure

What Payr is at the rails level — a real €450 Paris → Casablanca transaction, leg by leg, and who owns each one.

02

Morocco

The market you don't know yet: $12.9bn of remittances, a monopoly breaking open, the 2030 World Cup, and why access beats technology here.

03

Our access

What "we have Morocco" actually means — the licensed processor, the live ecosystem, and a 400-member London–Africa network.

04

The stack

What Payr takes from Zuba, from Atlas, and from each partner — the full component map of the machine.

Payr — the settlement layer for the corridors the global rails underserve.
Confidential. Prepared by Ryad for discussion with Zuba · June 2026.