Who can operate a payment switch in South Africa?

As of 2026-07-27, 100 entities are on the official South African Reserve Bank register under the South Africa licence category this dataset maps to payment switching ("System Operator"). The full, source-linked list is below.

Maintained: this official source is re-checked on a weekly schedule — last checked 2026-10-19.

“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