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Who can operate a payment switch in South Africa?

As of 2026-07-14, 99 entities are on the official South African Reserve Bank register under the South Africa licence category this dataset maps to payment switching ("System Operator"). The full, source-linked list is below.

Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-08-04 · changed 2026-08-04.

“Payment switching” here is the normalized activity: Own or operate payment switching, routing, clearing or interoperability infrastructure between payment service providers, issuers, acquirers and schemes.

Activity id (as used by the Afriset MCP): fintech:SWITCHING

System Operator

South African Reserve Bank · 99 entities · source date 2026-07-14
  1. ACI Worldwide (Germany) GMBH
  2. Addpay (Pty) Ltd
  3. Ahead Start (Pty) Ltd
  4. Altron TMT (Pty) Ltd
  5. Amplifin (Pty) Ltd
  6. APPSolve (Pty) Ltd
  7. Apzor (Pty) Ltd
  8. Baobab Payments GmbH
  9. Billdozer (Pty) Ltd
  10. Bitventure Consulting (Pty) Ltd
  11. Bridge Collections (Pty) Ltd
  12. Brolink (Pty) Ltd
  13. ClickTeko (Pty) Ltd
  14. Code x Creations (Pty) Ltd
  15. Cypher Business Software CC
  16. Debella Finance (Pty) Ltd
  17. DebiTech (Pty) Ltd
  18. Depansum (Pty) Ltd
  19. Direct Debit (Pty) Ltd
  20. Direct Transact (Pty) Ltd
  21. Dynamic Product Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  22. E-tech Information Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  23. Easy Debit Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  24. EC1 Holdings (Pty) Ltd
  25. Ecentric Payment Systems (Pty) Ltd
  26. EFT Corp Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  27. Eftsure Africa (Pty) Ltd
  28. Electronic Funds Technology Corporation South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  29. Electrum South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  30. ExiPay Africa Ltd
  31. Fidelity Cash Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  32. Finance 7 Seven (Pty) Ltd
  33. First Group Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd
  34. Fivewest OTC Desk (Pty) Ltd
  35. Flutterwave Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  36. Hyphen Technology (Pty) Ltd
  37. ICompare (Pty) Ltd
  38. Ignition Telecoms Investments (Pty) Ltd
  39. Incatorque (Pty) Ltd
  40. Internet Filing (Pty) Ltd
  41. IUA Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  42. JMR Software (Pty) Ltd
  43. Kianga Trading (Pty) Ltd
  44. Lesaka Merchant Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  45. Lesaka Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  46. Lesaka Transact (Pty) Ltd
  47. Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd
  48. Metavaro (Pty) Ltd
  49. Moment Payco (Pty) Ltd
  50. Mustang Financial (Pty) Ltd
  51. NjiaPay Group B.V.
  52. Nomad EFT (Pty) Ltd
  53. Nuvolix Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  54. Omnea (Pty) Ltd
  55. Onevap (Pty) Ltd
  56. Onga Wari Consulting (Pty) Ltd t/a OWLS Software
  57. Opco 365 (Pty) Ltd
  58. Ozow (Pty) Ltd
  59. PalmPay (Pty) Ltd
  60. Pattern Matched Technologies (Pty) Ltd
  61. Payaccsys Services (Pty) Ltd
  62. Paycorp Group (Pty) Ltd
  63. Payfast (Pty) Ltd
  64. Paym entology (Pty) Ltd
  65. Paym8 (Pty) Ltd
  66. PayO SA (Pty) Ltd
  67. Paytec Services (Pty) Ltd
  68. Payteq (Pty) Ltd
  69. PayU Payment Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  70. Phakama Administration Services (Pty) Ltd
  71. Pick 'N Pay Retailers (Pty) Ltd
  72. Pine Labs Solutions Pte. Ltd.
  73. Platinum Life (Pty) Ltd
  74. Precium SA (Pty) Ltd (Q4 Payments)
  75. Pvyco (Pty) Ltd
  76. Q Link Holdings (Pty) Ltd
  77. Q Link Transact (Pty) Ltd
  78. RealPay Marketing (Pty) Ltd
  79. SA Home Loans (Pty) Ltd
  80. Sanlam Life Insurance Ltd
  81. SBV Services (Pty) Ltd
  82. Signature Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd
  83. Softy Comp (Pty) Ltd
  84. South African Bankers Services Company (Pty) Ltd
  85. Stitch Money (Pty) Ltd
  86. Stratfin Services (Pty) Ltd
  87. Suresystems (Pty) Ltd
  88. Tenet Technology (Pty) Ltd
  89. Traderoot Africa Managed Services (Pty) Ltd
  90. Transaction Junction (Pty) Ltd
  91. Transaction Payment Solutions South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  92. TreasuryONE TMS (Pty) Ltd
  93. Visa Sub-Saharan Africa (Pty) Ltd
  94. Walletdoc (Pty) Ltd
  95. WauTreasury (Pty) Ltd
  96. WeconnectU (Pty) Ltd
  97. Worldpay South Africa (Pty) Ltd
  98. Yoyo SA Services (Pty) Ltd
  99. Zapper Marketing (Southern Africa) (Pty) Ltd

Source: South African Reserve Bank (register administered by PASA)

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