Advent International’s Latest Deal in Europe
The fourth M&A phase involves the purchase of payment processors that serve small to midsized (SMBs) merchants, marketplaces and digital wallets.
Area of Interest: Merchant Acquiring
Market Cap Performances by Payment Processors in 2023
Only 9 of the 41 processors posted gains in market capitalization, including 4 of the top 10—Fiserv, Global Payments, Shift4 and Stone.
Fleetcor Processes Payments on Proprietary Networks
The company plans to gain more transactions by going deeper within its existing businesses and geographies to find new opportunities, including expanding services to consumers.
Nuvei Adds Card Issuing
In over half of the markets in which it operates, including the European Economic Area (EEA), Nuvei owns bank licenses and can make direct financial settlement with merchants.
Worldwide Card Acceptance Locations for Global Brands — 3Q 2023
Most micro merchants are counted along with other small merchants that are aggregated together by payment facilitators (payfacs) that serve these customers, accounting for an estimated 30 million acceptance locations worldwide.
Shift4 Supports Amazon’s Just Walk Out Checkout
When a shopper enters a store that uses Amazon’s technology, they tap a mobile wallet or payment card on a reader installed in a Just Walk Out pedestal to trigger a preauthorization of a purchase amount.
Worldline Consulting for Digital Merchants
Worldline supports more than 1 million merchants in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. They generate nearly 30 billion transactions annually, including transactions handled as a third-party processor. The number of digital merchants exceeds 250,000. Those businesses generate more than 2.5 billion transactions annually.
POS Terminals Shipped Worldwide — 2022
Point-of-sale terminal shipments worldwide reached 148.3 million in 2022, up 4.5% over 2021. POS terminals counted include countertop, multilane, tablet and handheld devices with integrated chip and/or magnetic stripe card readers, unattended devices, terminals that can read QR codes and also accept cards and those that can read a biometric identifier and then facilitate a […]
The Largest Merchant Acquirers Worldwide — 2022
Acquirers from two countries hit the 1 billion transaction mark for the first time: Akbank (Turkey) and Alfa Bank (Russia).
Kushki Merchant Acquiring in Latin America
The company has grown at 200% annually over the last two years. It expects to process at least 100 million payments over the next 12 months.
