Leading Processor in Bulgaria Starts Digital Transformation on WAY4

BORICA AD, a company with 50-years history and experience in providing specialized solutions for over 30 financial institutions in Bulgaria and neighbouring countries, has chosen the WAY4 digital payment software platform to transform its core business. The platform is licensed by OpenWay, a global software provider ranked a leader in digital payment solutions and white-label digital wallets.

BORICA AD has launched this digital transformation project to enhance its existing and provide new value-added services. OpenWay will supply a full end-to-end card processing solution for both issuing and acquiring including real-time fraud prevention and detection, e-commerce, mobile wallet and tokenization. The new platform shall enable BORICA AD’s future business growth including cross-border services’ expansion.

Without the new platform, BORICA AD would not have been able to scale the growing business and boost ROE. The processor was looking for a solution that would support local, regional and international card payments, ensure uninterrupted business operations, provide automation of back office processes, and increase speed to market.

The decisive factors in choosing OpenWay and the WAY4 platform were its flexibility as well as the commitment to deliver on time and allow BORICA AD to expand its new business services to include tokenization, digital wallet, new card products, new institutions among others.

“The project known as “BORICA New Generation” will impact significantly the whole card payment environment in the country”, says Radoslav Dimitrov, head of “Cards and Terminals” Division at BORICA AD. “The tender procedure has been held among more than 10 leading international card system vendors and completing all its stages took us nearly two years. OpenWay managed to cover all our requirements for flexibility, security and business expectations. Today we are confident that this partnership will change the future of card business in Bulgaria”, he adds.

“We appreciate that BORICA has entrusted the transformation project to OpenWay. We have extensive experience in analyzing the architecture and delivering highly reliable solutions for national and regional switches, and are ready to share this expertise with the project team,” - notes Sophocles Ioannou, Regional Manager at OpenWay.

BORICA AD

BORICA AD has developed and nowadays provides and operates the technology infrastructure of the Bulgarian payment industry. In doing so, the company has been a trusted partner of banks and payment institutions for nearly 50 years.

The Company is committed to providing modern and innovative solutions to financial institutions.

Company’s services focus on payment services, card services incl. authorization and terminal driving, fraud prevention services, secured card payments, HCE, mobile payments and Card Management System as a service; SWIFT Service Bureau; e-signature and e-invoice, Infrastructure services. BORICA AD acts as a third party processor (TPP) for MasterCard and VISA. The Company is licensed by the Bulgarian National Bank to operate three payment systems (BORICA Payment system for card payments, BISERA 6 for credit transfers in domestic currency and BISERA 7 for SEPA credit transfers and direct debit in Euro).

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