Founded in 1992, today Tsesnabank is one of the largest and most rapidly developing banks in Kazakhstan. The bank's branch network comprises 19 full-service branches and 59 outlets throughout Kazakhstan servicing over 100 000 private and 15 000 corporate clients. The Tsesnabank's customers and international partners acknowledge the bank's deserved reputation as a reliable and stable financial institution. Aiming at the diversification of its retail services range, Tsesnabank has started to implement its own fully functional processing center which will enable it to introduce to the market new retail products based on payment cards and raise the flexibility and the quality of corporate and private customer services. The new technological advantages will also allow the bank to achieve the leading position in the highly competitive retail finance market of Kazakhstan.

Tsesnabank selected the SmartVista solution for its card business automation among other offerings as a result of an international tender process. The chosen solution, composed of end-to-end integrated software modules, will deliver the whole cycle of Visa magstripe and EMV cards issuing and acquiring. Within the project BPC will perform stage by stage migration of the bank's card business from a third party processor to the new platform, and its integration with the sponsor's processing centre. Based on modern technologies, SmartVista will be able to provide business scalability, high performance, flexible mechanisms of integration with other systems and convenient tools to support, develop and integrate the solution as well as to implement new modules and functions. All of these features create the necessary terms for on-going and efficient card business development.

"Currently the rapid development of banking business in Kazakhstan requires both the re-evaluation of the financial organisations' development strategies and usage of the appropriate IT platforms capable of supporting rapid business growth", underlined Sergey Lukianov, Deputy CEO, BPC. "Tsesnabank has chosen SmartVista solution as the most efficient platform, providing all the necessary tools to realise its strategy aimed at the active card business development of the bank".

"Today only the implementation of modern technologies is able to raise the customers' loyalty and attract new clients. Only such high-end solutions as SmartVista can ensure that the bank will be able to flexibly follow the rapid changes of the market requirements as well as the support of new products and services for efficient and quick business development", said Alma Isimbaeva, Director for payment cards department, Tsesnabank.