A long history in South African payments. A new way to run them.
Omnea grew out of Perago, founded in 1999 by a team formerly with the South African Reserve Bank. Its people and business continued as Trustlink and, today, Omnea. Across those businesses, our team built and ran payment and messaging infrastructure for South African corporates and banks. Today we bring that experience to one platform that lets any business move money, place it safely in custody and put it to use.
More value for our customers, step by step
It started with a blueprint in 1995. Each step since built on the one before, and each is now a stage our clients can take with us.
Blueprint
The SARB and the banks agree the National Payment System Framework and Strategy, which our founder, Dr Philip Johann Tromp, helped write. It opens the provision of payment services to non-banks.
Messaging
Dr Philip Johann Tromp founds Perago with the team that built SAMOS, South Africa’s real-time gross settlement system, and goes on to build RTGS systems for central banks in Africa and Europe.
Hosted messaging
Through Perago and then Trustlink, our team hosts bank and SWIFT connectivity for its clients, so they no longer need to run it themselves.
Messaging and processing
Straight-through processing, treasury, file management and AML services take the business from moving payment messages to processing them, for corporates, the securities market and SARS submissions.
Messaging, processing and custody
A new focus on safe custody and payments. In 2023 the business becomes Omnea, joining the XEA Capital group alongside its sister company Tegra. Today Omnea is a Third Party Payment Provider whose platform runs accounts in custody with a licensed administrator and its independent nominee, alongside a Managed Payment Factory that facilitates R1.24 trillion in payment instructions a year.
How we work
Leadership
Helped write the SARB’s 1995 National Payment System Framework and Strategy, the blueprint for today’s payment system, and founded Perago in 1999 with the team that built SAMOS.
