BPC and Bahrain based FinTech IPS extend their collaboration

By Leandra Monteiro

Payment solutions provider, BPC, has extended its collaboration with Bahrain-based International Payment Services B.S.C (IPS), a third-party payment processing firm. As part of the agreement, BPC will allow IPS to extend the use of its open system, the e-payment platform ‘SmartVista’.

Through the use of the BPC’s SmartVista platform, IPS is able to perform core payment activities that involve third-party processing services, electronic payment gateway solutions, prepaid cards, wallets and switching services. The platform ensures the highest infrastructure standards and the most advanced security setups.

Commenting on the collaboration, Hany Al Deeb, Managing Director GCC & Iraq, BPC said, “Empowering other paytech companies to serve their own market is what we do best – and we are thrilled that so many are leveraging the robustness and capability of SmartVista to scale from a fintech to high volume processing firm. Since we first started working with IPS, the company has benefited greatly from SmartVista’s integrated capability for authorisation and switching, fraud monitoring and risk management, disputes and chargeback handling, and ATM management. Looking ahead, we are delighted to be continuing our journey with the company as it embarks on new services for customers across new frontiers.”

Over the course of this four-year engagement, SmartVista’s integrated capabilities have helped leverage IPS’ business prospects in gaining significant market share while also serving as a hub for banks looking to optimize their operations in the Middle East and Africa.

IPS is now ready to take the next step in its scaling journey, and through its renewed collaboration with BPC, has extended its use of SmartVista. This will support the expansion of services as IPS welcomes more banks into its processing center for instant card issuing, channel management including ATM, POS, internet, and mobile banking, end-to-end merchant management, and fraud prevention.

Ebrahim Janahi, CEO of IPS said, “We have been really impressed by the technology and service that we have received from BPC and believe that they have been instrumental in achieving our business goals. As our company continues with its growth strategy, we are turning to BPC once again to help us extend the range of our client services using the SmartVista platform. The technology has proven its seamless payment processing and we are confident that it will continue to deliver on its promise.”