BPC Banking Technologies

BPC Banking Technologies is a provider of Open System e-payment solutions for the global financial industry. As the developer and distributor of SmartVista—a comprehensive suite of solutions covering every aspect of electronic payments processing — BPC has designed an innovative platform featuring a flexible, scalable, high performance solution.
BPC Banking Technologies transforms the payments business by helping global financial institutions, retailers, and payment processors discover new and better solutions to improve your business by gaining more customers, increasing profitability, and getting to market first.
It has more than 80 customers worldwide (as of December 2011), tier-one client base includes leading, international financial institutions located across 24 countries and 5 continents with several of the world’s top 100 banks as clients. To drive expansion efforts, BPC has established a network of global offices including Africa, the Asia Pacific; Central, Eastern, and Western Europe; the Gulf region; Mexico, Central and South America; Russia and CIS and the U.S. BPC’s philosophy of keeping close to customers is based on local pre and post-sales support and long-term relationships with local customers and partners. With offices around the world, BPC provides local language support staff in each regional office.
In addition to an emphasis on customer intimacy, BPC’s ISO 9001:2008 certifications uphold a strong commitment to quality, helping the company establish a leading position in the worldwide payments industry and fueling growth in overseas markets. This combination of product innovation, dedicated local customer support and a focus on quality have been instrumental in positioning BPC as one of the fastest growing companies in the payments sector.
IBM in its white paper claims that "SmartVista i" (A derivative solution for IBM i series servers) is a result of extensive collaboration between BPC and IBM experts from Russia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A.
In 2010 BPC Banking Technologies had completed the porting of its SmartVista switch solution (SmartSwitch) to HP’s Integrity NonStop platform
Products and services
BPC offers a full range of payment products for ATM management, authorization switching, billing, card management, card production, fraud prevention, loyalty programs and merchant management. The scalable payment solution SmartVista supports high-performance processing across all delivery channels, including POS, branch, Internet and mobile commerce.
1) SmartSwitch solution provides a real-time transaction engine for authorization switching to enhance online processing power while retaining legacy card management environments, manages the complete end-to-end requirements of authorization switching by delivering three core areas of functionality including interface support, authorization routing, and stand-in authorization.
2) SmartIssuer provides an integrated card management solution that streamlines card program maintenance, helps easily design new card products, while providing functionality to manage existing card programs.
3) SmartPro provides an end-to-end solution for magnetic and smart card personalization, includes the complete key management processes required for card personalization and provides a direct interface to a range of widely-used card personalization and security equipment from a variety of vendors including DataCard, SafeNet, Thales etc.
4) SmartATM - a sophisticated ATM network management system that allows you to automate, service and monitor your ATM network management. In addition, SmartATM’s MediaExtension provides real-time, online, audio visual, customer support through the ATM.
5) SmartMerchant provides an integrated merchant management solution that streamlines merchant and terminal maintenance. It performs a range of merchant management functions including merchant and terminal set up, financial clearing and settlement, billing, and statement, invoice, and report generation and delivery.
6) SmartLoyalty allows to easily configure loyalty program and supports incentives calculation, incentives accounting, and incentives usage in one tool. In addition, the solution can also integrate with outside third parties, such as airlines, for co-branded programs.
7) SmartBilling solution automates and optimizes billing procedures and accounting for retail payments, integrates to ERP systems, such as SAP as well as a wide variety of accounting systems.
8) SmartGuard combines the advantages of online and offline fraud prevention and detection, and enables both card issuers and acquirers to track transactions coming from traditional and emerging delivery channels such as ATMs, POS, e-commerce, and m-Commerce.
Gartner Inc Rating
BPC’s SmartVista solution for transaction processing and card management received a “Positive” rating in the leading analytical report “MarketScope for Multiregional Card Management Software, 2010” fulfilled by Gartner Inc. in July 2010. BPC Group has been participating in Gartner Inc. Rating since 2008.
Offices Worldwide
BPC Banking Technologies has a growing worldwide presence with the offices throughout Africa, the Asia Pacific; Central, Eastern, and Western Europe; the Gulf region; Mexico, Central and South America; Russia and CIS and the U.S. BPC's strategy is heavily supported by partnerships with the key leaders in their respective market segments to strengthen and further extend the solution offering.

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