OpenWay

OpenWay is a payments software company behind WAY4, a platform for processing electronic payments. Its customers are banks, payment processors, telecoms operators and petrol companies, spread across several continents.

The company began in Brussels with research teams there and in St. Petersburg, and has since grown into a global business with ten offices.

What OpenWay offers

• Card and merchant management — issuing and acquiring, including prepaid and fuel cards.
• Digital and mobile banking — digital wallets, mobile payments and omni-channel banking.
• Financial switching — routing and authorising transactions.
• E-commerce payments — online acceptance, plus dynamic currency conversion.
• No-code configuration — tools to set up and launch new payment products with business rules and automation.

Who it works with

Customers range from large tier-one banks to mid-sized firms and start-ups. Deployments can run on-premises, in the cloud or as software as a service.

Key facts

• Offices: 10 worldwide
• Customers: around 130
• Team: over 600 payment, digital technology and security specialists
• Origin: founded more than 15 years ago, first based in Brussels
• Recognition: cited by analysts including Gartner, Datos Insights and Juniper