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https://www.bankservafrica.com/website/About BankservAfrica
BankservAfrica is the largest automated clearing house in Africa. We build and operate South Africa’s core interbank payments infrastructure. Payments AND transactions are our lifeblood and we understand the need for modernisation in the payments landscape. After all, we have been playing a central role in processing billions of payments in South Africa since 1972.
All four of South Africa’s high volume banks as well as a consortium of the lower volume banks are shareholders and customers of BankservAfrica. BankservAfrica is regulated by the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA) and South African Reserve Bank (SARB)
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