This blog series explores how digital payment providers can unlock innovation in the digital finance ecosystem by selling open APIs to third-parties, empowering these companies to create new products and services that benefit providers, third-parties, and low-income customers alike.

Many products and services as we know them, such as Facebook, would not be possible without something that few people have heard of: application programming interfaces (APIs). Open APIs are contracts that make it possible for different companies' software programs to interact with each other.