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Behpardakht Mellat

Entity IDIR-CO-2166

SectorFintech

Founded2005

HQTehran

VerificationReported

Last reviewed2026-08-04

Behpardakht Mellat (BPM) is one of Iran's 12 licensed payment service providers, operating as a subsidiary of Bank Mellat. It provides POS terminals, payment gateways, and acquiring services to merchants across Iran. The company is listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange and forms part of the Bank Mellat group, making it one of the few publicly traded Iranian PSPs.

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Operating metrics, period-stamped

Internet-gateway transactions, fiscal yearYear to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

1,394,987,645

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Store-terminal transactions, fiscal yearYear to 20 December 2024Company disclosed

7,934,498,141

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06Fiscal 1403 runs 22 December 2023 to 20 December 2024. With 8,089,821,014 in fiscal 1402, store-terminal transactions fell in fiscal 1403 and grew 6.4 per cent over the two years to 8,606,541,850 in fiscal 1404.

Internet-gateway transactions, fiscal year ten years earlierYear to 21 December 2014Company disclosed

69,957,837

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Fuel-payment terminal transactions, fiscal yearYear to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

752,702,720

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Internet-gateway transaction value, fiscal yearYear to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

14,901,000,000,000,000 rial (rounded by the company)

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Total transaction value since foundingTwenty years of operation from 2005, end date not printedCompany disclosed

199,000,000,000,000,000 rial (rounded by the company)

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Record internet-gateway transactions in one dayOn 22 December 2025Company disclosed

5,366,272

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Record fuel-payment terminal transactions in one dayOn 19 March 2023Company disclosed

2,455,936

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Share of transactions completed successfullyTwenty years of operation from 2005, end date not printedCompany disclosed

98.8 per cent

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Transactions processed since foundingTwenty years of operation from 2005, end date not printedCompany disclosed

More than 88 billion

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Largest single transaction in the year23 July to 22 August 2025Company disclosed

92,000,000,000 rial, on a store terminal

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Record store-terminal transactions in one dayOn 19 March 2025Company disclosed

30,298,422

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06

Store-terminal transactions, fiscal yearYear to 21 December 2023Company disclosed

8,089,821,014

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report, fiscal year to 21 December 2025 · retrieved 2026-10-06Fiscal 1402 runs 22 December 2022 to 21 December 2023. Read from the chart by bar height: the 1402 bar is the taller of the two earlier years.

Shaparak market position (May to June 2025)Month to 21 June 2025Third-party reported

Second largest payment service provider in Iran by both transaction count and transaction value, behind Saman Electronic Payment. The gap to first place was 1.49% on count and 0.05% on value. Behpardakht held the largest share of two acceptance channels: USSD at 48.22% and internet acceptance at 29.80%.

Shaparak monthly economic report via Peivast ↗ · retrieved 2026-08-13Shares are as published by the payment network operator. Tehran Index has not recomputed them.

Monthly revenue (April to May 2026)Month to 21 May 2026Company disclosed

956.3 billion toman of revenue in a single month, per the monthly activity report filed to Codal. No US dollar equivalent is given: Tehran Index has no canonical average rate for this period.

Codal monthly activity report, via Khobregan Sarmaye ↗ · retrieved 2026-08-13Single month, not annualised.

Share of transaction value among payment service providers21 December 2025Company disclosed

23% of transaction value, ranked first of the twelve providers shown; the second-ranked provider held 20.67%. The report does not name the other providers.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Share of transaction count among payment service providers21 December 2025Company disclosed

20.77% of transaction count, ranked first; the second-ranked provider held 20.42%.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Transactions processed in the fiscal yearFiscal year 2025-26, 21 December 2024 to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

10,510,680,290 transactions across all channels.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Active terminals by channel21 December 2025Company disclosed

1,434,650 store card terminals, 68,779 internet payment gateways, 11,916 fuel-payment terminals and 428 mobile payment terminals.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Merchants servedyear to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

1,095,973 merchants, in 1,431 cities.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Store terminals and their transactions, three years22 December 2022 to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

Store card terminals: 995,605 (fiscal 2023-24), 1,268,354 (2024-25), 1,434,650 (2025-26). Transactions on them: 8,089,821,014, 7,934,498,141 and 8,606,541,850. Terminals grew 44.1% over the two years; their transactions fell 1.9% in fiscal 2024-25 and grew 6.4% over the two years.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02Derived from the two printed series: transactions per year-end store terminal fell from about 8,126 (year to 19 March 2024) to 6,256 (year to 20 March 2025) and 5,999 (year to 20 March 2026), down 26.2%. Against the average of opening and closing terminals the fall is 9.1% in the last year (7,009 to 6,368). The report does not compute either ratio.

Busiest month and busiest dayFiscal year 2025-26, 21 December 2024 to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

Busiest month: 23 August to 22 September 2025 (23 August to 22 September 2025), 953,901,193 transactions. Busiest day: 19 March 2025, just before the Iranian new year, 38,669,347 transactions.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Tehran share of store-terminal activityFiscal year 2025-26, 21 December 2024 to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

Tehran province accounted for 23.66% of the value and 20.12% of the count of store card transactions, and 20.27% of store terminals.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Business model & group

Operations during the June 2025 conflict13 to 24 June 2025Company disclosed

The company reports its systems stayed up with 99.99% availability and no outage over the twelve days from 13 to 24 June 2025. Average daily transactions in the period were 27,171,268, 6.18% above the Farvardin average and 5.46% below the Ordibehesht average.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02Company statement, not independently measured. The 32.42% comparison in the same table is against the first 22 days of Khordad, a different base.

Acceptance of Russian Mir cardspublished 2026Company disclosed

The company describes its NFC-enabled store terminals as able to accept Russian visitors' Mir cards through Russia's MirPay app, with the transaction routed from Iran's Shaparak and Shetab networks to Russia's Mir network.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02Relevant to foreign exposure: a working card-network link to Russia, as described by the company. The report gives no transaction volume for it.

Anti-fraud and security certificationsFiscal year 2025-26, 21 December 2024 to 21 December 2025Company disclosed

Launched Raham, an in-house system that scores terminals for suspected fraud and money laundering, and received ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security management in fiscal 2025-26.

Behpardakht Mellat sustainability report 1404 (company-published, unaudited) ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02

Leadership

CEO (Official Gazette board notice)Board resolution of 16 March 2026; notice published 5 October 2026Official record

The Official Gazette notice published in gazette 23745 (Tehran edition) on 5 October 2026 records that the board elected Mohammad-Mahdi Taghipour Anvari as chief executive, from outside the board, for a term to 18 February 2028. The board resolution is dated 16 March 2026 and the notice cites a Central Bank of Iran approval letter.

Corporate family

Bank Mellat

DimaFintech

Tracked entities in the same corporate family. Ownership percentages appear in Ownership & capital only when disclosed.

Ownership & capital

Legal operator (company history page)Company disclosed

The company history page on behpardakht.ir names شرکت به پرداخت ملت (سهامی عام), Behpardakht Mellat as a public joint-stock company, as the payment service provider behind the brand, operating under a Central Bank licence and, after Shaparak was formed, under licences from Shaparak. The passage is quoted verbatim in the source passage.

Behpardakht Mellat, company history page, behpardakht.ir ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-02The history page is the company describing itself on its own site. It names the legal person together with its legal form, a public joint-stock company, and the licensed activity the brand carries on, which is more than a rights line repeating the brand would establish. The brand and the legal name are the same words. The page prints no identifier, so agreement with the national identifier shown in this profile rests on the name. The site footer separately reserves all rights to the same company.

Registered capital (latest Official Gazette capital notice)Latest capital notice, published 7 October 2025; notices checked to 5 October 2026Official record

The most recent capital notice in the Official Gazette, published in gazette 23455 (Tehran edition) on 7 October 2025, records an extraordinary general meeting of 7 September 2025 raising capital from 8,000,000,000,000 rial to 10,000,000,000,000 rial, divided into 10,000,000,000 registered ordinary shares of 1,000 rial, entirely out of retained earnings. Registered capital is a nominal legal figure and is not a valuation.

Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of Iran, legal-notices portal, notice detail ↗ · retrieved 2026-10-05Read directly on the Official Gazette legal-notices portal on 5 October 2026. The 14 most recent notices the portal lists for the company, the latest published 5 October 2026, were each opened and searched for a capital clause; none after this one changes the capital figure. Registered capital is the amount in the company register, not market capitalisation.

Signals & timeline, Behpardakht Mellat mentions

2026-08-03Behpardakht Mellat had 21.69% share of Iran's 2025-26 payment transactions

From the published signal feed; each record links to its source. All signals →

Source ledger, every field, its evidence

Internet-gateway transactions, fiscal yearCompany disclosedYear to 21 December 2025

1,394,987,645