Johnson welcomes QPS investment in the UK
QPS, the world’s leading card issuance and processing platform from Mumbai, has launched its services in the United Kingdom and further expansion in the European markets.
The launch was applauded by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson who underlined, “Trade and investment between the UK and India is creating good jobs and sustaining livelihoods in both of our countries. I’m very pleased that QPS has decided to join the legions of Indian companies investing in the UK, boosting our FinTech sector and driving economic growth.”
Launched in 2019, QPS has already established itself as the pioneers in the card issuing ecosystem of India and has now set its eyes on the fast growing European market. By optimising its secure open API issuer processing platform, QPS would be focussing on the real needs of the end user and would enable companies to customise their unique card programmes. The company will invest £10m and create 100 new jobs, including several high skilled positions in the Tech and Fintech industry.
Speaking on the launch Founder and CEO Vinay Kalantri, said, “Expanding our business operations to the United Kingdom, establishes us as one of the fastest growing fintech companies from India. We are the latest entrant in this highly competitive and fast growing ecosystem and have managed to scale our operations by purely focus on technology disruption. We believe in innovative our technology based solutions as per the actual needs of the users, rather than developing solutions on the existing technology.”
QPS is focussed on breaking the mould of this legacy ecosystem by constantly evolving its backend technology. With the help of world-class APIs along and a dedicated developer portal with a modern core banking platform, QPS provides an instantly accessible private sandbox environment for its clients. Companies could now have a modern card system showing real time data points on credit limits, reward points, transactions, etc. It also gives companies a unique plug-and-play model that would enable them to launch new features with absolute ease.
Kalantri elaborated, “The United Kingdom is one of the fastest growing fintech markets in the world and is ideal for QPS to showcase its technological prowess. We truly believe that technology could be the defining factor that would enable us to capture 20% of card issuing market within the first 2 years. We are also looking at clocking up revenues to the tune of GBP100 million in the next three years by targeting the overall BFS industry of The United Kingdom. We are truly grateful to the Government of United Kingdom for giving us this opportunity and look forward to a fruitful business association with them.”
QPS is a leading B2B service provider offering a fully managed card issuance and processing platform, which is integrated with the banks as well as payment servers. Incorporated in February 2019 by Kalantri, the company is headquartered in Mumbai and a back-office stationed in Chennai. Listed as 50 Most Promising Entrepreneurs of 2017, Vinay Kalantari has been a part of the Fintech fraternity for more than two decades.
Partnering with other Fintech giants like Sify, Trend Micro, Thales, Mastercard, VISA, and Rupay, QPS delivers an extensive Open API issuing CMS. Presently, QPS has a team of 20 members based in India and one member based out of Dubai. This team has together earned a global clientele in the past two years and QPS aspires to expand its reach in the Middle East, UK, and Europe.
So far, QPS has created their platform for companies like Paypoint, Intelligent Payments, Open, Mbnk Phygital to help them address the credits and manage their cash flows. Considered the most vibrant start-ups in Fintech, QPS aims to provide end-to-end and cutting-edge secure payment solution with real-time customer and data insights that enables innovation and helps businesses adapt, scale and optimize. #technology #software #platform #investment #European /fiinews.com
