{"id":303042,"date":"2026-06-11T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=303042"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:20:09","slug":"smart-choice-technologies-is-the-first-nepali-company-to-be-listed-in-the-global-registry-of-visa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/smart-choice-technologies-is-the-first-nepali-company-to-be-listed-in-the-global-registry-of-visa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Choice Technologies is the first Nepali company to be listed in the Global Registry of Visa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Smart Choice Technologies Limited (SCT), a service provider active in Nepal&#8217;s digital payment system, has been officially listed on Visa&#8217;s &#8216;Global Registry of Service Providers&#8217;. <\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_fa5b54049a85faaf\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>TAG_OPEN_p_14 With this, SCT has become a Visa-accredited Access Control Server service provider. SCT recently received the &#8216;PCI 3DS&#8217; certification. Both of these achievements are expected to be historic milestones in the field of Nepal&#8217;s payment system and security infrastructure. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Prior to this, no domestic company in Nepal had such certified ACS service. As a result, most of Nepal&#8217;s commercial banks had to rely on international vendors. As a result, sensitive financial details of Nepali ATMs and credit card users were stored and managed in data centers abroad. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With this new achievement of SCT, Nepali banks will now be able to avail this important security service in the country.TAG_OPEN_p_12 It has ensured that sensitive financial details of Nepali citizens are safely managed and stored within Nepal&#8217;s national borders. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Manoj Ghimire, CEO of SCT, said, &#8220;SCT&#8217;s infrastructure is not limited to the Nepali market but is of global standard, so any visa member organization around the world can use SCT&#8217;s certified ACS service.&#8221;TAG_OPEN_p_11 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>CEO Ghimire wrote in a LinkedIn post that the service is completely free and open and can be easily used by banks and financial institutions that are not currently part of the SCT network.TAG_OPEN_p_10 <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To keep this technology afloat, SCT has set up a 24-hour help desk.TAG_OPEN_p_9 It will provide immediate problem resolution and ongoing technical support to customers and cardholders around the world. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Smart Choice Technologies Limited (SCT), a service provider active in Nepal&#8217;s digital payment system, has been officially listed on Visa&#8217;s &#8216;Global Registry of Service Providers&#8217;. TAG_OPEN_p_14 With this, SCT has become a Visa-accredited Access Control Server service provider. SCT recently received the &#8216;PCI 3DS&#8217; certification. Both of these achievements are expected to be historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":303039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45117,45077,45167,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-finance-en","category-corporate-2-en","category-technology-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303043,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303042\/revisions\/303043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/303039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}