An independent street-rate reference for your African payout corridors
EMpulse gives payment companies settling in African currencies a street exchange-rate index to check their payout rates against.
The task: knowing whether your payout rate matches the market
You settle in African currencies for businesses and marketplaces, and the official rate often differs from what people actually pay on the street. Your payout rate comes from a bank, a partner or an internal feed, and it can drift away from the market without anyone noticing. Reconciliation needs a neutral reference for each corridor that does not belong to any party in the chain.
Today's street rate, with its confidence
118 active currencies, and growing — Currencies
How the index helps you reconcile and watch drift
The index publishes a street rate for each currency against the US dollar and USDT. Every figure carries a confidence class and the number of sources behind it, built from transaction-based market data and quotes from independent public market sources. Pull it through the API, compare it with your payout rates in your own reconciliation, and use drift alerts to see when the gap starts to open, so your team reacts earlier.
Get a free API key
Plans: start with a free key, move up when you need more
Free
$0
- RUB, UAH, EGP + your country's currency
- Site: latest hour. API: 1-day delay
- 100 requests/day
- The free level of every product, even without a key
Starter
from $39/mo
- Today's data and every active currency of the product
- 90 days of history, JSON or CSV
- 1,000 requests/day
- EM FX News & Sentiment — $39/mo
- EM Parallel FX Market Size — $49/mo
- Rail Health Index — $39/mo
- FX Rate Stack — $39/mo
- Street FX Index — $39/mo: 118 active currencies, and growing
- Unmet Demand Map — $39/mo
- USDT Liquidity & Premium — $39/mo
- All products — $99/mo
Pro
from $119/mo
- All of Starter, plus the full history
- Hourly series where they exist, MCP
- 10,000 requests/day
- EM FX News & Sentiment — $119/mo
- EM Parallel FX Market Size — $149/mo
- Rail Health Index — $119/mo
- FX Rate Stack — $129/mo
- Street FX Index — $149/mo: 118 active currencies, and growing · Same-day data · Hourly rates (intraday) · Official vs Street · FX Stress Signals · EM FX Events
- Unmet Demand Map — $129/mo
- USDT Liquidity & Premium — $119/mo
- All products — $249/mo
Payments in USDT (TRC-20). Yearly plans cost 15% less than monthly.
Questions from payment teams
- What does the index measure?
- The street exchange rate: what people actually pay for the US dollar or USDT in a given currency, as opposed to the official or parallel quotes in a bank feed.
- How do I know how far to trust a figure?
- Each figure shows a confidence class and the number of sources behind it, so you can decide whether it is strong enough for a given reconciliation step.
- Can I use it inside my own systems?
- Yes. The index is delivered by API with a free key to start, and the Starter and Pro plans add more currencies, freshness and alerting.
- Is this financial or investment advice?
- No. EMpulse is a reference rate for comparison and reconciliation. It does not recommend any currency position or payout decision.