Top Merchant Acquirers in Europe—2024

The acquirers listed here handled 216.16 billion global brand and domestic-only debit, credit and prepaid card transactions to purchase goods and services in 2024. This was up 9.6% over 2023. The purchase volume of those transactions grew to $6.635 trillion. For the complete ranking, data and tables, please log in and download Issue 1287. Bancontact, […]

NewPOS Countertop Terminal

Expected end users for the New9830 include small and midsized retailers, restaurants, clinics and hospitality providers.

Banked A2A Payments Network

US-based Banked is a payment company that has spent the last five years building A2A capabilities that leverage real-time banking rails in Australia (New Payments Platform), UK (Faster Payment System, Clearing House Automated Payment System) and the US (FedNow, Real-Time Payments, ACH).

Affirm’s AdaptAI Helps Merchants Target Offers

AdaptAI provides customized promotions and credit offers to specific consumers who merchants want to target. Use cases could include a 12-month 0% APR for first-time buyers or a 36-month plan linked to a seasonal event.

Chargeflow Chargeback Management for PSPs

Chargeflow’s evidence-as-a-service technology prepares the letter merchants need to demonstrate to issuers that a sale was legitimate. The automated system replaces the costly manual review process many merchants rely on to answer issuers.

FIS Money Movement Hub

The technology detects and resolves problems at file, batch and entry levels, enabling the correction of errors before clients log in, which eliminates manual reworking and resubmissions.

Forter Payment Optimization

The most successful ecommerce merchants calibrate fraud management, which is a risk analysis, with payment optimization, which is a growth analysis. Forter offers ecommerce merchants support in both areas. The Forter Trust Platform has been used to fight ecommerce fraud since 2014. It delivers identity intelligence, isolating suspected criminal activity by analyzing legitimate transactions from […]

Splitit’s Embedded White- Label BNPL for Merchants

Among providers of buy now, pay later (BNPL) and installment loan payment options, Splitit is different. The company’s service is embedded in the merchant’s checkout page on a white-label basis, and the pay-over-time option comes from the line of credit tied to a cardholder’s credit card. Competitors typically present their own consumer-facing brand and underwrite […]

Barclays’ Payment Acceptance Business to Brookfield

Alternative asset management firm Brookfield has entered a partnership with Barclays Bank in the UK to carve out its payment acceptance business, including processing contracts, POS terminals and gateways, as well as services pertaining to foreign exchange, data and analytics.