Card switching / national payment switch — Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe category mapped to payment switching.
Regulator: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Payment-switching and interoperability infrastructure recognised by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the 'Approved Payment Systems Platforms' list - the designated national payment switch (Zimswitch, 'Local Card Switching Facilities and Electronic Funds Transfer') and the card schemes providing international/local switching. SI 80 of 2020 s.4 mandates every money-transmission and mobile-banking provider to connect to a national payment switch for interoperability. Switches route and clear transactions between participants without holding customer float; each platform's services-offered label is kept on its fact.
Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-08-04 · unchanged since the previous check.
Licensed providers
4 entities| # | Provider | Status (as reported) | Source | Source date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MasterCard | authorized | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe | not dated |
| 2 | Union Pay International (UPI) | authorized | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe | not dated |
| 3 | Visa | authorized | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe | not dated |
| 4 | Zimswitch | authorized | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe | not dated |
Reading the tables
- not dated
- — the official source publishes no date of its own. We show our own last-checked date instead of inventing one for the regulator.
The equivalent in other markets
Categories mapped to the same normalized activity —
fintech:SWITCHING:
- → Switching & Processing Licence Category (Nigeria)
- → To own, possess, operate, manage or control infrastructure for the provision of payment services (Kenya)
- → System Operator (South Africa)
- → Switching Service Provider (Tanzania)
- → Payment System Operator (Uganda)
- → Payment System Operator (Zambia)
- → Payment System Operators (Rwanda)
- → Payment System Operator (Switch Operator) (Ethiopia)
- → Opérateur de système de paiement monétique agréé (DR Congo)
- → Payment System Operator (Namibia)
- → Payment System Operator (Malawi)