Vista Bank Puts Digital Payment Strategy on the Radar With Latest Selection of Payments Technology

Vista Bank Puts Digital Payment Strategy on the Radar With Latest Selection of Payments Technology

Vista has formed an ambitious agenda to challenge the status quo and deliver a superior experience to retail customers, large enterprises, and MSMEs across West Africa and the wider region. In response to its digital-first strategy, Vista has selected Radar Payments as its preferred partner to drive digital payment adoption in the region. Radar Payments will centralise payment operations at Vista’s tech hub located in Senegal, supervising Vista Bank’s activities in Guinea, Gambia, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone while leaving room for further banks to join its network. It is part of the bank’s growth agenda to expand to Burkina-Faso, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Mali. The group has already been expanding rapidly through a series of successive strategic acquisitions that include First International Bank (FIB) in Gambia, followed by BNP Paribas’ Subsidiaries , La Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie de la Guinée (BICIGUI) in Guinea and La Banque Internationale pour le Commerce l’Industrie et l’Agriculture du Burkina (BICIAB) in Burkina Faso. As a result, Vista Bank has become the primary bank in Guinea by assets and network coverage. The agreement will see Vista Bank running on BPC’s flagship payment suite, SmartVista to manage card issuance and lifecycle