Interswitch Partners with Temenos to Scale Digital Banking Services Across Africa
By Trek Africa Newspaper
• Interswitch will use Temenos solutions to deliver managed services to banks and financial institutions across Africa
Interswitch Group, one of Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce companies, and Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, today announced a collaboration, wherein Interswitch will adopt Temenos technology to enhance its digital banking capabilities, supporting its growth and expanding access to modern financial services across the continent.
Interswitch will use Temenos solutions – across core banking, digital banking, payments, wealth management and financial crime – to provide cloud-hosted and on-premises managed services to banks and financial institutions across Africa. This will enable institutions to progressively transform their banking platform and evolve to more customer-centric business models. The service will initially support key African markets including Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya and others.
Jonah Adams, Managing Director for Digital Infrastructure & Managed Services (Systegra) at Interswitch, said: “By adopting Temenos’ cloud-native, composable platform, Interswitch gains the flexibility and scalability to accelerate its next phase of growth and deliver banking services that meet the needs of African markets.
This is a pivotal moment for Interswitch as we accelerate our expansion beyond payments and reimagine digital banking for Africa. Our partnership with Temenos is strategic in that it allows us to introduce a highly configurable banking platform that leverages the latest cloud technologies into our technology stack. Temenos delivers on this and brings an unmatched breadth and depth of capability to support our vision and scale our services across the continent.”
William Moroney, Chief Revenue Officer, Temenos, commented: “Interswitch is an important new customer and partner for Temenos in Africa. The collaboration underscores the adaptability of our platform to power innovative banking services tailored to the needs of African markets. Interswitch’s strong presence across the continent also extends our reach and further strengthens our ecosystem and partner network.”
Widely known for its Quickteller and Verve brands, Interswitch operates in 32 African countries, supporting more than 300 financial institutions. Through Quickteller, its digital payments and services platform, Interswitch has played a significant role in shaping consumer and merchant payments. Verve International, a domestic payment cards and tokens scheme and a subsidiary of Interswitch, recently surpassed 100 million payment cards issued. The business continues to drive innovation in tokenization, reinforcing its position as one of Nigeria’s most widely used payment cards and token platforms.
About Interswitch
Interswitch is a leading technology-driven company focused on the digitization of payments in Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Founded in 2002, Interswitch disrupted the traditional cash-based payments value chain in Nigeria by supporting the introduction of electronic payments processing and switching services.
Today, Interswitch is a leading player with critical mass in Nigeria’s developing financial ecosystem and is active across the payments value chain, providing a full suite of omni-channel payment solutions. Interswitch’s vision is to make payments a seamless part of everyday life in Africa, and its mission is to create transaction solutions that enable individuals and communities to prosper across Africa. Interswitch’s broad network and robust payments platform have been instrumental to the development of the Nigerian payments ecosystem and provide Interswitch with the infrastructure to expand across Africa.
About Temenos
Temenos (SIX: TEMN) is a global leader in banking technology. Through our market-leading core banking suite and best-in-class composable solutions, we are modernizing the banking industry. Banks of all sizes utilize our adaptable technology – on-premises, in the cloud, or as SaaS – to deliver next-generation services and AI-enhanced experiences that elevate banking for their customers. Our mission is to create a world where people can live their best financial lives.
For more information, please visit www.temenos.com.
Media Contacts
Scott Rowe & Michael Anderson
Temenos Global Public Relations
Tel: +44 20 7423 3857
Email: press@temenos.com
Alice Stephens
Temenos Team at Brands2Life
Tel: +44 7753 175012
Email: Temenos@brands2life.com
Interswitch Media
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