e-zwich

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e-zwich is Ghana's interoperable biometric smart-card payment system, operated by GhIPSS. It connects stored value with merchant and cash-access terminals, supporting uses such as salary and allowance payments and giving recipients a card to receive, hold and spend electronic money.

Use cases:
Initiation:
Users
319K
Markets
1
TPV
$399M
Transactions
511K

Estimated Monthly Usage, Aurato Research, November 2026

Historical trends

Capabilities

Payments can connect across different schemes or rails; payment completion can work without an active network connection. Local bank-account requirements vary by payment route. A formal non-chargeback dispute route is conditional.

Markets

Schemes

PSPs

No PSP implementations have been mapped for this method yet.

Compliance

Regulator
Bank of Ghana

Standards