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Celent names BPC a “Luminary” for retail, SMB digital banking platforms in APAC
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 — 16:24:08 (UTC)
London, United Kingdom, 14th July – Celent, a part of GlobalData, has named BPC, global leader in payment solutions, a Luminary, the highest designation, in its new report “Retail Digital Banking Platforms: Asia Pacific 2025 Edition,” and “Small Business Digital Banking Platforms: Asia Pacific 2025 Edition.” Celent recognises BPC’s SmartVista Digital Banking platform as a Luminary solution that excels in both advanced technology and functional breadth among the set of nine vendors evaluated in the retail edition and the ten vendors in the small business edition.
The independent studies assessed leading vendors across the region, including BPC, Infosys Finacle, Backbase, FIS (small business edition only), Intellect, Oracle, TCS BaNCS, NETinfo, i-exceed, and Diasoft, highlighting digital banking trends globally and within APAC, such as mobile-first design, journey-based customer experiences, no-code configurability and open-banking interoperability.
Alenka Grealish, Principal Analyst, Celent, adds: “Celent also highlights that GenAI will have a transformational effect on customer engagement in the coming years. As a result, DBP solution choices today will be far more impactful on future strategy than the last time a retail and business banking digital channel platform was selected”.
After a comprehensive evaluation process, Celent recognized BPC and its technology platform SmartVista as the highest category “Luminary” above other evaluation participants, citing its advanced microservices architecture, rich API framework and extensive out-of-the-box capabilities.
Built to help banks, fintechs and SMEs innovate and modernise quickly, SmartVista Digital Banking platform unifies consumer banking, digital wallets, SME and merchant services on a single cloud-ready stack. From digital onboarding and biometric security to AI-powered chatbots, split-bill payments, virtual cards and QR acceptance, the platform delivers hundreds of configurable features—including personal finance management, loyalty, cash-flow prediction, agent banking, merchant payments, without compromising performance or security.
Trusted by hundreds of tier-1 and tier-2 institutions worldwide, BPC has extensive presence and expertise in the APAC region, with over 30% of its customer base utilising digital banking platforms residing in the region. SmartVista equips product teams with central dashboards, role-based controls and real-time analytics, while end-users enjoy consistent, intuitive journeys across mobile apps, web portals and merchant touchpoints.
Imran Vilcassim, Global Chief Commercial Officer, Digital Banking, BPC, said: “SmartVista’s modular, cloud-native design lets our APAC clients launch and iterate at speed, whether they are rolling out everyday banking, wallet services or full-scale SME propositions. This recognition from Celent affirms that our unified ecosystem and omnichannel security deliver the breadth, depth and agility modern institutions require.”
Michael Bernard, Senior Analyst, Celent, added: “BPC’s SmartVista Digital platform has a proven track record of delivering exceptional technology, customer support and continual innovation to APAC banks of every tier. Its placement in the Luminary quadrant reflects the company’s ability to combine advanced architecture with market-leading functionality.”
For more than 25 years BPC has helped over 500 tier-1, tier-2 financial institutions, fintechs, SMEs in 140 countries navigate the digital banking and payments landscape. Being named a Category Leader underscores BPC’s commitment to empowering clients with future-proven solutions that help them drive innovation and deliver exceptional digital payment experience.
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About BPC
BPC is a proven industry leader that is shaping the world of transactions with quick, safe and easy payment processing. With a focus on exceptional technology development and customer service, BPC helps tier 1, tier 2 financial institutions, fintechs, SMEs and other businesses to deliver innovative and best-in-class proven solutions that fit with today’s consumer lifestyle when banking, shopping, or moving in both urban and rural areas. With more than 500 customers across 140 countries, BPC collaborates with all ecosystem players to deliver services for the digital world. Its core product SmartVista suite comprises cutting-edge banking, commerce, and mobility platforms that enable innovative solutions for digital banking, ATM and switching, payments processing, card, and fraud management, financial inclusion, merchant portals, transport, and smart cities. To find out more about how BPC can help businesses deliver a seamless payments processing experience to consumers, please visit www.bpcbt.com
About Celent
Celent is a research and advisory firm that helps financial institutions develop effective business and technology strategies. For over 20 years, Celent has published market-leading reports on emerging trends and best practices in financial services technology, while also delivering strategic consulting to support innovation and transformation initiatives. Backed by a global team of experienced analysts, Celent offers objective insights and advice to clients worldwide. Celent is part of GlobalData Plc. Learn more at celent.com. Unsubscribe
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