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Qik Banco Digital

“Can the Dominican Republic's first digital-only bank — backed by Grupo Popular's balance sheet but built on a cloud-native, API-first stack — displace branch-based incumbents by delivering lower-cost, personalized consumer banking entirely via mobile?”

Founded2022
HQSanto Domingo de Guzmán, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
IndustryFintech / Neobank
The story

Founded in 2022 as the first digital-only bank (neobank) in the Dominican Republic, Qik launched as a subsidiary of Grupo Popular — the country's largest financial group — leveraging the parent's banking experience while operating as a fully branchless, app-first entity. Starting with a Mastercard credit card powered by i2c and core banking on Temenos T24 cloud, it rapidly added savings accounts, personal loans, certificates of deposit, and a Visa debit card. The strategic bet is that a cloud-native, API-first architecture (Temenos + i2c) combined with AI/analytics can outcompete traditional Dominican banks on cost and personalization while enjoying the credibility and capital backstop of Grupo Popular.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2022
Obtained Banco Múltiple license from the Junta Monetaria on October 27, 2022 and launched operations on November 15, 2022 with the Qik Credit Card as its first product.· banking
2022
Grupo Popular selected i2c's 'My Card Place' platform for card processing to power digital and physical Mastercard consumer credit cards at launch.· card
2023
Launched on Temenos Banking Cloud (T24) for core banking infrastructure, becoming the first digital-only bank in the Dominican Republic on the platform.· banking
2023
Introduced Cuenta Qik savings account, ACH/LBTR transfers, and Code CASH ATM withdrawals, expanding beyond credit card to full deposit product suite.· banking
2024
Launched Préstamos Qik (personal loans) with 100% digital application, approval, and disbursement into Cuenta Qik.· lending
2024
Introduced Certificados Qik (digital certificates of deposit), Qik Pro premium tier, Garmin Pay support, and multi-currency accounts (USD and DOP).· banking
2025
Expanded capital base with Grupo Popular injecting DOP 1 billion in new capital, raising authorized capital to DOP 5 billion, and launched Visa debit card (previously Mastercard-only).· banking
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by Qik Banco Digital
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
5 layers disclosed in Qik Banco Digital’s embedded-finance stack
Money movement
ACHSWIFT
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
KYC
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
7 more providers across 4 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.