Who can operate a payment switch in Ghana?

Ghana has no private switching licence category: the national switch is operated by GhIPSS, a wholly-owned Bank of Ghana subsidiary.

Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-08-24 · unchanged since the previous check.

Source: GhIPSS - Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems Limited (wholly owned Bank of Ghana subsidiary)

“Payment switching” here is the normalized activity: Own or operate payment switching, routing, clearing or interoperability infrastructure between payment service providers, issuers, acquirers and schemes.

Activity id (as used by the Afriset MCP): fintech:SWITCHING