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Bancontact Company

Card scheme · Wallet operator

BelgiumBelgiumFounded 2017
Revenue
€36mturnover (Omzet, FY ended 31 Dec 2025) · as of 2025-12
Employees
50full time equivalents at 31 Dec 2025 (45 full time and 6 part time employees on the payroll)
Headquarters
Brussels, BE

What it does

Belgian domestic debit card scheme, renamed Bancontact Company in March 2026 when it brought its brands under one name. Contracts with merchants directly through Bancontact Pro, and is itself a payment institution supervised by the National Bank of Belgium. Bancontact Pay is the app face of the same card scheme, not an account-to-account rail.

1tracked executive
Who runs it

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