Black Pen Recruitment

Black Pen Recruitment is a recruitment agency specialising in FinTech. It says it has worked with startups, scale-ups and corporates for over a decade, and Nora is its CEO. It has an African head office in Cape Town and a European head office in Birkirkara, Malta, and recruits across Africa, Europe and beyond.

Its expertise areas are cryptocurrency and mobile money, payments and digital banking, blockchain and InsurTech, iGaming, legal, compliance and regulation, customer service and foreign language support, and sales, marketing and human resources. It has also expanded into e-commerce, SaaS, tech and travel and tourism. It places C-level, director and senior management staff, such as CFOs, COOs and general and legal counsel, and fills foreign-language BPO roles in languages including German, Dutch, French and Arabic. It reports placing over 150 remote employees across Africa, in legal, finance, engineering, IT and human resources.

Clients can engage it on a commission, fixed fee or start-up package basis. It sources candidates through its platforms, AI technology and network, and carries out pre-screening, interviews and reference checks.