Interswitch, an African integrated payments and digital commerce company, has earned a prominent place on the CNBC and Statista list of the World’s Top Fintech Companies.

Published on CNBC’s global platform, the list spans payments, lending, insurtech, digital banking, and blockchain, among others.

Interswitch’s inclusion in the payments category places it among a select group of firms recognised for delivering meaningful innovation, maintaining system reliability, and demonstrating sustained impact in their markets.

Commenting on the announcement, Interswitch Founder and Group Managing Director/CEO, Mitchell Elegbe, said the recognition reflects Interswitch’s deliberate and disciplined approach to building payment infrastructure that meets real economic needs.

He said: “Our focus has never been just about speed or scale for the sake of it. We have been intentional about building the systems and laying the rails that make payment and commerce work seamlessly. This recognition is timely, and it speaks to the work of every Interswitch stakeholder who has remained committed to our journey.”

From enabling government-led payment digitisation to delivering secure contactless frameworks in transportation, and from expanding real-time lending rails to offering accessible APIs for developers and startups, he said Interswitch has maintained its role as a trusted infrastructure provider across industries.

Over the past year, Elegbe said the company has built infrastructure and platforms that have enabled the payment ecosystem across the continent. Its works also include deepened platform security, scaled onboarding for its cloud-native services, and reinforced its capacity to handle billions of transactions across switching, card services.