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Belgium’s card infrastructure is too critical to depend on too few players. Belgium deserves an alternative. ByQwest has successfully…
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Belgium’s card infrastructure is too critical to depend on too few players.
Belgium deserves an alternative.
ByQwest has successfully completed Bancontact application testing, marking a major step toward enabling Belgian banks, issuers, fintechs and retailers to launch and process Bancontact card programmes on a modern, Belgian-built infrastructure.
Bancontact sits at the heart of everyday payments in Belgium. Building a credible alternative processing infrastructure means strengthening resilience, reducing concentration risk and giving the market greater freedom to innovate.
More choice. More resilience. More continuity.
Full serverless.
Full cloud-native.
PCI-DSS Level 1.
Visa-certified.
Bancontact application testing completed.
Mastercard next.
Belgium should not have to choose between innovation and reliability.
Belgium deserves a credible alternative.
So we built it.
#ByQwest #CardQwest #Bancontact #CardProcessing #PaymentInfrastructure #FinTechBE #PaymentSovereignty #Belgium #Visa #Mastercard #Sovereignty #DORA #Compliance
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