Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s first and largest Islamic bank, has successfully completed the end-to-end migration of its payments business to BPC’s SmartVista platform, strengthening the scalability, reliability, and security of its payments infrastructure.
The migration covers 7.5 million active cards, all merchants and the Bank’s payments processing environment, with the platform supporting peak transaction volumes exceeding 1,500 transactions per second.
The modernised platform supports the Bank’s card portfolio, merchant acquiring across POS, e-commerce and QR, payment gateway services, fraud management and instant payments. Meezan Bank currently processes approximately 2 million Raast transactions daily, supported by an acceptance network of more than 100,000 QR codes.
Faiz ur Rehman – Group Head, Information Technology, Meezan Bank “The successful migration to SmartVista represents a significant milestone in Meezan Bank’s technology transformation journey. Moving our payments ecosystem to a modern and scalable platform provides a strong foundation for the continued growth of cards, merchant acquiring, digital payments and Raast. This achievement reflects the strong collaboration between Meezan Bank’s business and technology teams and BPC, while maintaining operational continuity and resilience throughout the transformation.”
Ali Imran Khan –Chief Information Officer, Meezan Bank “This end-to-end payments migration is a major step in strengthening Meezan Bank’s digital payments infrastructure for the next phase of growth. We now have a modern platform that supports scale, security and innovation across our channels. The successful completion of this programme demonstrates that large-scale payments modernisation can be delivered with continuity, control and long-term value for our customers, merchants and the Bank.”
Furrukh Ali-Baig – Managing Director Pakistan, Nepal & Iraq, BPC “Meezan Bank operates one of Pakistan’s most significant digital payment environments, and this migration demonstrates how modern infrastructure can support scale, security and innovation while maintaining operational resilience. SmartVista provides the processing scale, fraud protection, instant payments capability and flexibility needed to support Meezan Bank’s continued expansion of secure digital payment services.”
The successful transition establishes a unified and scalable payments foundation for Meezan Bank, supporting high-volume processing and the continued expansion of secure digital payment services across Pakistan.