About Baran Technology
Payment infrastructure for Afghanistan
We are a fintech company operating in Afghanistan. Our platform empowers banks, EMIs and PIs to offer card and wallet payments on every channel.
Our mission
To give every bank, EMI and PI in Afghanistan the infrastructure to offer modern payments to its customers.
Our vision
A payment system in which any card or wallet works on any ATM, POS machine or app, whichever institution is behind it.
01How it works
Your channels on one side, the national switch on the other
The Baran platform sits between an institution's channels and APS, so one integration covers both.
02How we build
What the platform stands on
Microservices
The Adapter API, Payment Engine and Switch are separate services with separate jobs.
ISO 8583
Full support for the message standard of card payment networks.
AWS CloudHSM
Cryptographic keys are kept in hardware security modules.
Reversals
Every supported transaction has a reversal.
03Network