Case Study: BORICA enables seamless Bulgaria euro payments transition with OpenWay Way4

Borica enables 930,000+ euro transactions in 48 hours with OpenWay

Borica, Bulgaria's national payment infrastructure operator, faced the challenge of seamlessly transitioning the country's entire payment ecosystem to the euro without any tolerance for disruption. This required synchronizing the conversion across more than 35 financial institutions while maintaining uninterrupted processing for millions of cards, ATMs, and POS terminals from the very first minute of adoption. The vendor OpenWay provided the solution using its Way4 platform.

OpenWay's Way4 platform served as a unified real-time foundation for the transition, enabling coordinated euro remediation across issuing, acquiring, switching, and fraud prevention. The results included zero unplanned downtime, over 930,000 transactions processed in the first 48 hours, and the first euro ATM withdrawal occurring just 20 seconds after the switch. This successful mission-critical program demonstrated how a national payment infrastructure can undergo large-scale transformation without interrupting services.

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