BPC Positioned as a Leader in the SPARK MatrixTM: Merchant Payment Platform (MPP), 2025 by QKS Group

• The QKS Group SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the leading Merchant Payment Platform vendors.

• BPC has received strong ratings for its Merchant Payment Platform. The solution demonstrates high performance across both technology excellence and customer impact parameters.

QKS Group announced today that it has named BPC as a 2025 technology leader in the SPARK Matrix™: Merchant Payment Platform, 2025.

Pradnya Gugale, Principal Analyst at QKS Group, states, “BPC’s SmartVista Merchant Management platform provides a cloud-native and microservices-driven acquiring foundation that enables banks, acquirers, and payment processors to manage complex merchant ecosystems at scale. The platform supports end-to-end merchant lifecycle management, from onboarding and contract configuration to transaction processing, settlement, and reporting, while accommodating multi-entity hierarchies and diverse acceptance channels. With configurable pricing models, embedded risk and fraud controls, and native support for value-added services such as loyalty, invoicing, and BNPL, SmartVista enables acquirers to tailor merchant propositions and streamline operations across high-volume environments. BPC is positioned as a technology leader in SPARK Matrix of Merchant Payment Platform, 2025 and is a strong option for institutions seeking a flexible and extensible merchant acquiring infrastructure rather than a lightweight, point-solution approach”.

The QKS Group SPARK Matrix™ includes a detailed analysis of the global market dynamics, major trends, vendor landscape, and competitive positioning. The study also provides a competitive analysis and ranking of Merchant Payment Platform providers in the form of the SPARK Matrix™. The study provides strategic information for users to evaluate different vendor capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market positions.

Among 21 evaluated vendors, QKS Group positioned BPC as a Leader, highlighting SmartVista Merchant Management as a scalable, end-to-end acquiring platform for tier-1 and tier-2 financial institutions, acquirers, processors, fintechs, SMEs. SmartVista Merchant Management was pointed out to natively support multiple payment channels and methods and process traditional card-present POS transactions as well as e-commerce checkout, QR codes, digital wallet and account-to-account, such as ACH payments. The platform also anticipates emerging payments like CBDC and stablecoin acceptance.

Irfan Ahmed, Regional Business Solutions Director MEA, BPC, said: “Being positioned as a Leader reflects our commitment to enable acquirers to run and grow complex merchant ecosystems with confidence. Our cloud-native, microservices-based platform supports the full merchant lifecycle across all channels from POS, e-commerce, QR, wallets to instant payments and A2A. We always supply only future-proven solutions that can help our customers innovate faster, and deliver secure digital payment experience to the end users. This recognition only validates SmartVista as a technological platform fit for institutions scaling merchant acceptance country wide or worldwide. We continuously invest in future-ready innovation to ensure our customers can adapt to evolving regulatory, security, and consumer demands while delivering secure, seamless, and frictionless digital payment experiences.”