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Accra Lions Football Club have announced ALEXpay as their main sponsors for the 2020/21 football season.
The club announced the deal on their social media networks Wednesday, saying: “Accra Lions Football is pleased to confirm that ALEXpay will become our new main sponsor for the 2020-21 season.”
To launch the new partnership, ALEXpay branding will feature on ALFC’s new collection of Puma apparel with immediate effect.
ALEXpay is a digital payment platform that integrates all the segmented telco-based mobile money service platforms to provide a reliable national switch for all mobile money transactions in Ghana.
Their cross-network transaction capability and interconnect clearing interchange functionality enables ALEXpay to provide a wide range of financial solutions including scaling up the mobile money service platform, integrating mobile money and traditional banking transactions, linking accounts to physical payment cards, crowdfunding for social and individual projects, assisting merchants with processing card based transactions, and accommodating foreign remittances.
Ishmael Hamidu, Team Manager at ALFC, said: “We’re delighted to partner with ALEXpay as they share our ambitions and values. We look forward to building on a special relationship with one of the fastest growing companies in Ghana.”
Moses Kanduri, Co-founder of ALEXpay added: “We are proud to be a partner of Accra Lions FC. We believe in soccer as a tool to providing young people with signals of hope for a better future hence our support for ALFC. Just as football connects talents for young Africans, ALEXpay’s aim is to ensure all Africans are financially included and connected to one another. We therefore see this partnership as the base to building a sustainable Africa.”
B: D. N. A. MENSAH, Daily Mail GH