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.