Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 6 companies across 1 category.
Claim this profile. Work at Interswitch? Verify your work email to unlock the full buyer list.
Founded in 2002 by Mitchell Elegbe as a national transaction switch for Nigerian banks, Interswitch evolved from pure interbank infrastructure into an integrated payments platform via Quickteller (retail payments) and Verve (indigenous card scheme). Today it operates across payment gateway, card issuing/switching, cross-border payments, and lending orchestration — positioning as a pan-African payments infrastructure company.
Full dossier: Interswitch’s own stack, layer by layer →Other PSP providers in the index, by the number of companies that disclose them. A count of public disclosures, not a ranking of the products.
An embeddable badge for Interswitch’s own site — it always shows this page’s current rank, so it stays accurate as new disclosures land. States its own denominator; never claims a number this page doesn’t.
<a href="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/vendors/interswitch?ref=badge">
<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/interswitch.svg"
alt="Ranked #61 of 528 in PSP — Embedded Finance Index 2026">
</a>
<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/interswitch/install" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display:none">6 companies are linked to Interswitch in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, through their own public disclosures or Interswitch's published customer list, including Access Banks, Wakanow, SQUAD, LOTUS Bank, Fidelity Bank PLC and O3 Capital Nigeria Limited (O3 Cards).
Interswitch is an embedded-finance provider in PSP. It ranks #61 of 528 PSP providers by linked companies.
The most-named PSP alternatives to Interswitch are Stripe (781 buyers), Adyen (317 buyers), PayPal (153 buyers), Checkout.com (114 buyers), Worldpay (88 buyers) and Mollie (63 buyers).
Interswitch was founded by Mitchell Elegbe and is founded in 2002, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
Get a read on where your own stack stands against Interswitch and the rest of its category — what they built versus bought, which providers they use, and where the gaps in your own strategy and competitive set actually are.