What GPS does

GPS (legal entity operating gps.com.bh) is a Bahraini-headquartered, Manama-based payment processing services provider founded in 2004. The company delivers an integrated suite of services spanning card issuance processing, ATM management, point-of-sale (POS) infrastructure, tokenization, and value-added services. The product positioning implies a B2B model serving banks, card issuers, and financial institutions in the GCC and broader MENA region, although the input data does not enumerate specific client names, geographies served, or contract structures.

The company is a private for-profit entity with 101-250 employees and operates under the regulatory perimeter of the Central Bank of Bahrain. Beyond the high-level service taxonomy (card issue, ATM, POS, tokenization, VAS), no underlying technology stack, core platform architecture, API surface, SDK languages, certifications (e.g., PCI-DSS), or proprietary technology components are disclosed in the source data — the company's own website at the time of capture returned only a verification/loading page, limiting first-party insight.

GPS's business model appears to be transaction- and license-based: revenue mechanics in payment processing typically include per-transaction fees, monthly platform/managed-service fees, ATM/POS hardware margins, and value-added service charges, but no pricing details, contract values, GTM motion, distribution channels, or named customer logos are documented in the input. No funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership team data, partnership announcements, app details, or office locations are recorded in the available material, leaving investor-relevant commercial signals materially undisclosed.

Name

GPS

Website

https://gps.com.bh

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

GPS is a Bahrain-based payment processing services provider founded in 2004, offering card issuance, ATM management, POS infrastructure, tokenization, and value-added services to banks and financial institutions in the MENA region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Manama

HQ country

Bahrain

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

GPS provides comprehensive and integrated payment processing services including card issuance, ATM management, point-of-sale (POS) services, tokenization, and value-added services. The company operates as a one-stop processing partner for businesses requiring multiple payment-related capabilities from a single provider in the Bahrain market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Card Issuance Services
• ATM Management Services
• Point-of-Sale (POS) Services
• Tokenization Services
• Value-Added Services

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Tap Payments: MENA-focused payment processor and acquirer offering online and in-store payment processing, tokenization and value-added services to merchants and issuers in the GCC.
• HyperPay: MENA payment gateway and processor providing online/in-store checkout, tokenization and recurring billing — competing with GPS for the same regional merchant and fintech clients.
• Benefit (Bahrain National Switch): Bahrain's national electronic payments operator, providing ATM/POS switching and retail payment infrastructure; GPS competes/coexists with Benefit in the same domestic market.
• Arab Financial Services (AFS): MENA-based card issuing and payment processing company headquartered in Bahrain; directly comparable to GPS on card issuance, ATM and merchant processing.
• Network International (NMI): One of the largest MEA-based payment processors, offering card issuance, ATM management, POS acquiring and merchant services — a direct functional overlap with GPS in the same GCC footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Checkout.com: Global payment processor with active MENA expansion; overlaps GPS in POS/e-commerce acquiring and tokenization, but at significantly larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Fiserv: Global financial technology provider with a major card-issuance and ATM/POS processing franchise (First Data legacy) that competes with GPS's core issuing and acquiring services in MENA via partners.
• Visa (Processing Services): Global card scheme and processor that defines the technical standards and increasingly offers processing-grade services that compete with regional processors like GPS.

Emerging players

• Paymentology: Cloud-native card-issuing and processing platform targeting fintechs and banks; competes with GPS specifically in the issuer-processing and tokenization product lines.
• M2P Solutions (M2P Fintech): API-first card issuing and payment processing platform expanding into MENA — competes with GPS in the issuer-processing and tokenization layer with a more modern technology stack.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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