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Compass Plus

“Can a legacy payments software vendor successfully replatform as a modern cloud-native, API-first processing and issuing infrastructure for banks and processors in growth markets?”

HQNottingham, United Kingdom (9 The Triangle, NG2 Business Park, Nottingham, NG2 1AE)
IndustryInfrastructure / Payments
The story

Compass Plus Technologies is a long-standing international provider of electronic payments and retail banking software, with over 50 years of technology heritage and nearly 20 years focused on payments. Originally known for its TranzWare product line serving processing centres and retail banks in emerging markets, the company evolved its flagship platform into TranzAxis — an API-first, open-development payments platform supporting card issuance, token lifecycle management, BNPL, and open banking. The company extended its deployment model from on-premise and hosted solutions to full cloud-native processing via AWS, repositioning itself as a flexible SaaS/PaaS payments infrastructure vendor rather than a traditional software licensor.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2014
Began enabling cloud deployments for customers of its TranzWare/TranzAxis payments platform.· pivot
2020
Partnered with AWS to migrate its own processing centre to the cloud, offering cloud-hosted processing services globally.· banking
2022
Completed multi-phased migration of Interswitch's entire credit card processing business to TranzAxis, supporting Visa, Mastercard, and Verve card issuance across Africa.· card
2023
Launched BNPL use-case offerings on TranzAxis, enabling banks to offer both consumer and B2B BNPL products across online, in-app, and in-person channels.· lending
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by Compass Plus
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
3 layers disclosed in Compass Plus’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
TranzAxis Processing Platform (self-operated)TranzWare Processing Platform (self-operated)
Card issuing
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
4 more providers across 2 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.