Omnisient, the South African-founded fintech helping banks apply AI to anonymised and protected consumer data for credit scoring and precision marketing, has been named one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026.
The recognition places Omnisient among a small group of African fintech companies featured in CNBC’s global list. Of the companies selected from across Africa, only four were South African, with Omnisient the only African-founded company listed in the Enterprise Fintech: Banking Solutions category.
Founded in Cape Town and now headquartered in the United Kingdom to support its international expansion, Omnisient has built technology that allows financial institutions to combine their anonymised consumer data with anonymised consumer data from partners across other industries. The analysis on their combined data enables financial institutions to draw new insights and build more accurate predictive models without exposing personal information or moving data outside each other’s control. Data is never exchanged and personal information is never exposed.
The platform is used in three main areas: improving credit risk assessment, detecting fraud across institutions, and helping financial institutions target the right customers more effectively. By providing institutions with a secure, neutral environment to apply AI to large, anonymised datasets from multiple sources, Omnisient helps them make better decisions based on a more complete view of consumer behaviour.
