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south africa

    All PayShap Real Time Clearing (RTC)

Report Year

2025

    PayShap

  • Geographic Reach

    South Africa

  • Gender disaggregated data

    No

  • Geographic Region

    Southern Africa

  • Coverage

    Domestic

  • Year Of Establishment

    2023

  • IPS

    Bank

  • Interoperability Arrangement

    Multilateral

  • Governance Typology

    Industry led

  • Ownership Model

    Participant-owned

  • System Owner

    BankserveAfrica

  • Overseer

    Payments Association of South African and South African Reserve Bank (central bank)

  • System Governance

    PayShap Scheme

  • Operator

    BankservAfrica

  • Settlement Agent

    South African Reserve Bank (central bank)

  • Number of Unique IPS End Users

    Over 4.6 million

  • Total Number Of Participants

    10

  • Number Of Direct Participants: Commercial Banks

    10

  • Number Of Direct Participants: E-money Issuers

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: MFIs

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: Other

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: Post Office

    -

  • Indirect Participants Type

    -

  • Number Of Indirect Participants

    -

  • Supported Use Cases

    P2P, P2B

  • Supported Instruments

    Credit EFT

  • Primary Local Channel

    App

  • Supported Channels

    USSD, Agent (banking), App, Browser

  • QR Code Enabled Type

    -

  • Messaging Standard

    ISO 20022

  • Proxy ID

    Bank account number , Mobile phone number

  • Other Proxy ID Type

    -

  • Business Model

    Not-for-loss

  • Pricing Structure

    Transaction fee and fixed fee

  • Scheme Rules Public

    No

  • Additional Recourse Requirements

    Yes

  • Dispute Resolution Mechanism

    Yes

  • API Functionality

    Yes

  • Startup Funding Source

    BankServAfrica

  • Participation in Decision Making

    Yes

  • Mechanism for Decision Making

    Industry Working groups, PCH and Scheme Governance Structures

  • Ability to become Direct Participants

    No

  • Entities that cannot Participate

    Only banks can enable direct clearing

  • Min Value for Transactions

    0.01 Rand (1 cent)

  • Corporate Structure

    Private limited company

  • Other Corporate Structure

    -

  • Pull Request to Pay Enabled

    Yes

  • Third Party Connections Enabled

    Yes

  • Real Time Payment Confirmation

    Yes

  • Transaction Validation Enabled

    Yes

  • Inclusivity Ranking

    Basic

  • Real Time Clearing (RTC)

  • Geographic Reach

    South Africa

  • Gender disaggregated data

    No

  • Geographic Region

    Southern Africa

  • Coverage

    Domestic

  • Year Of Establishment

    2006

  • IPS

    Bank

  • Interoperability Arrangement

    Multilateral

  • Governance Typology

    Industry led

  • Ownership Model

    Participant-owned

  • System Owner

    BankserveAfrica

  • Overseer

    Payments Association of South Africa

  • System Governance

    BankservAfrica

  • Operator

    BankservAfrica

  • Settlement Agent

    South African Reserve Bank (central bank)

  • Number of Unique IPS End Users

    -

  • Total Number Of Participants

    19

  • Number Of Direct Participants: Commercial Banks

    18

  • Number Of Direct Participants: E-money Issuers

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: MFIs

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: Other

    -

  • Number of Direct Participants: Post Office

    -

  • Indirect Participants Type

    Payment service providers

  • Number Of Indirect Participants

    1

  • Supported Use Cases

    P2P, P2B , B2B, B2P, P2G

  • Supported Instruments

    Credit EFT

  • Primary Local Channel

    App

  • Supported Channels

    Agent (banking), App, Browser

  • QR Code Enabled Type

    -

  • Messaging Standard

    ISO 8583

  • Proxy ID

    -

  • Other Proxy ID Type

    -

  • Business Model

    Not-for-loss

  • Pricing Structure

    Transaction fee and fixed fee

  • Scheme Rules Public

    No scheme rules in place

  • Additional Recourse Requirements

    No

  • Dispute Resolution Mechanism

    No

  • API Functionality

    Yes

  • Startup Funding Source

    Founding members and operators

  • Participation in Decision Making

    Yes

  • Mechanism for Decision Making

    Via the Payments clearing house structure

  • Ability to become Direct Participants

    No

  • Entities that cannot Participate

    The appointed payment systems operator (PSO), Service providers (SO)

  • Min Value for Transactions

    0.01 Rand (1 cent)

  • Corporate Structure

    Private limited company

  • Other Corporate Structure

    -

  • Pull Request to Pay Enabled

    No

  • Third Party Connections Enabled

    No

  • Real Time Payment Confirmation

    Yes

  • Transaction Validation Enabled

    No

  • Inclusivity Ranking

    Basic