Access local currency
liquidity across Africa.
Source, deploy, and optimize working capital in hard-to-reach markets with control, speed, and visibility.
Your liquidity shouldn't be trapped by the markets you operate in.
Treasury teams operating across African markets can struggle to access local currency at the right time, in the right market, and at a fair cost. This can create trapped balances, settlement delays, poor repatriation outcomes and inefficient working-capital use.
Source. Deploy. Optimize.
Source
Access local currency liquidity across relevant African markets.
Deploy
Move working capital into the markets and corridors where it is needed.
Optimize
Convert, pool, settle and repatriate balances to improve liquidity efficiency.
See your liquidity. Move it with purpose.
Manage balances across currencies and markets with visibility into where funds sit, what is available and where liquidity needs to move.
Your exposure changes.
Your margin doesn’t have to.
Three things can move against you.
Rate
Currency moves between trade and settlement.
Time
Cash flows may arrive weeks or months later.
Margin
The difference can affect your economics.
Starks helps you manage all three.
Built around your exposure.
Starks structures currency conversion and hedging around your expected cash flows, settlement timelines and currency pairs.
Assess
Identify exposure across payables, receivables and open positions.
Structure
Select the appropriate hedge around amount, currency and timing.
Execute
Execute through regulated infrastructure.
Monitor
Track positions and exposure through the lifecycle.
See the position.
Control the risk.
Everything you need to manage liquidity across markets.
African-to-African
Direct African-to-African currency pairs (20+ pairs), so you don't route through USD or EUR just to move between markets.
African-to-G3
African-to-G3 conversions (USD, EUR, GBP, CAD) alongside local currency sourcing across relevant African markets.
Enterprise liquidity
Enterprise-volume liquidity, up to $180M/month in single corridors, so working capital isn't left trapped waiting on local currency.
Put funds to work
Local invoice settlement and corridor-specific liquidity support.
Hedging
Hedging and forward contracts, structured around your exposure when you need to lock in a rate.
Country investment & repatriation
Deploy capital into any of our markets, then repatriate profits and proceeds when you're ready to move it back out.
Stay in control
Treasury visibility dashboard across all balances, positions and transactions.
Built for African markets.
Supported across priority African markets and trade corridors, with multi-country execution and operational support for working capital and settlements.
Built for businesses operating across markets.
Corporate treasuries
Managing cross-border trade, working capital and liquidity across markets.
Finance teams & CFOs
Managing currency exposure and repatriating gains on African contracts.
Trade finance desks
Importers and exporters settling payables and receivables across corridors.
Fund managers & institutions
Deploying capital into and repatriating proceeds from multiple African markets.
Frequently asked questions
Put your liquidity to work.
Tell us which markets, currencies and corridors you operate in.