On October 30, 2026, InTouch, a Senegalese company, signed a 10-year partnership with Gambia's Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs and the Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA) in Banjul. The fintech was selected after an international tender to help authorities track transactions, collect payments, and control public revenue, particularly from online gaming. This collaboration aims to strengthen Gambia's control over its fiscal resources.
The partnership involves three main areas: real-time transaction monitoring, secure payment processing, and financial operation control. The goal is to provide the administration with consolidated data on collected revenue and amounts due to the state. This will help limit revenue losses, improve transaction traceability, and reduce dependence on taxpayer declarations. Gambia's authorities will be able to rely on their own data to track financial flows and refine budget planning.
The online gaming sector is one of the areas targeted by this reform, as it represents a significant challenge for authorities in terms of fiscal control. InTouch will act as an independent third-party trusted intermediary for the Gambian tax administration, following a selection process in which three candidates participated. The agreement was signed in the presence of Seedy K. M. Keita, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, and Omar Cissé, founder and CEO of InTouch Group.
This partnership marks a new step in InTouch's continental expansion, as the company has been working with governments and public administrations for over five years to secure their financial flows. InTouch's solutions are already deployed in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau. With Gambia, the group is extending its presence to an English-speaking environment, after experiences in French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries.
For Omar Cissé, this expansion goes beyond the technological aspect, as it relates to the issue of controlling financial data and mechanisms for collecting public resources by African states. InTouch's model is based on a conviction that African technology, designed for African realities, can serve the transparency and financial sovereignty of states. The company is proud to accompany Gambia, a brother country, in securing its public finances.
In addition to revenue control, InTouch offers tools to facilitate tax payment, including mobile money, partner points of sale, and field agents. These solutions allow taxpayers to make payments without necessarily having to go to tax services. For administrations, these tools enable the centralization of payment information, automation of reconciliations, and detection of potential discrepancies between declared amounts and actually collected sums.
InTouch was founded in Dakar in 2014 and claims to have developed technological expertise in Senegal, where its engineering teams are based. The company is present in 33 countries, serves 5,200 companies, and has processed 12,750 billion FCFA in transactions. The partnership with Gambia reinforces InTouch's presence in the digital payment and public revenue management sector in Africa, highlighting the role of African technology companies in modernizing the continent's financial administrations.
Key points
- InTouch's solutions will help Gambia's authorities track financial flows and refine budget planning.
- The partnership aims to limit revenue losses and improve transaction traceability.
- InTouch is extending its presence to an English-speaking environment with this partnership.
