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Stripe is a San Francisco-headquartered financial technology company founded in 2010 that powers online payment processing for businesses worldwide. The platform enables millions of companies, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises like Amazon and Shopify, to accept card payments, manage subscriptions, and handle payouts. Stripe supports over 135 currencies and integrates with e-commerce tools for seamless revenue growth.

PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

Kaspi.kz JSC is the payment, marketplace, and Fintech ecosystem in Kazakhstan. The firm provides interconnected technologically seamless products and services that help people to pay, shop and manage their finances. Its operating segment includes the Payments Platform that connects its customers, which consist of both consumers and merchants, to facilitate cashless, digital transactions, the Marketplace Platform, which derives maximum revenue, connects merchants and consumers enabling merchants to increase their sales and consumers to buy a broad selection of products and services offered by a variety of merchants, and Fintech Platform that enables customers to manage their personal finances online and access consumer finance and deposit products through the Kaspi.kz Super App.

Checkout.com is a global payment processor supporting transactions in over 150 currencies through a unified API. It delivers in-country acquiring across more than 50 countries, advanced fraud detection powered by machine learning, and comprehensive reporting dashboards. The platform accepts all major credit and debit cards alongside local methods such as iDEAL, Alipay, and Klarna. Checkout.com maintains offices in London, New York, Singapore, and 16 other locations worldwide. Launched in 2012, it serves enterprises like Sony, Revolut, and McDonald's with scalable infrastructure for high-volume payments.

Mollie is a payment processing platform enabling seamless integration of methods like iDEAL, Bancontact, SOFORT, Giropay, PayPal, Mastercard, VISA, and SEPA Direct Debit into websites and apps via a unified API. Amsterdam-headquartered since its founding in 2004, the company simplifies online transactions for European merchants with reliable infrastructure.

Nexi is a payment services provider offering merchant acquiring, card issuing, and digital banking services across Europe. Nexi’s services cover the entire payment chain excluding the card scheme. It offers its acquiring and issuing services either in partnerships with banks, providing point-of-sale terminals, processing, or issuing services on their behalf or directly to merchants.

Paymentus Holdings Inc provides electronic bill presentment and payment services, enterprise customer communication and self-service revenue management to billers through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), secure, omni-channel technology platform. The platform integrates with a biller's financial and operational systems to provide secure and flexible processing of payments, including credit cards, debit cards, eChecks, and digital wallets, across multiple channels such as online, mobile, IVR, call centers, chatbots, and voice-based assistants. The company generates the majority of its revenue from payment transaction fees processed through its platform. Geographically, it derives the maximum revenue from the United States.

DLocal Ltd is focused on making the complex simple, redefining the online payment experience in emerging markets. Through its technology platform, One dLocal, the company enables world-wide enterprise merchants to get paid (pay-in) and to make payments (pay-out) online in a safe and efficient manner. The company earns revenue from fees charged to merchants in connection with payment processing services for cross-border and local payment transactions. The company's geographical segments include Latin America and Non-Latin America with a majority of its revenue being generated from Brazil in Latin America region.

Evertec Inc is a transaction processing business in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its business segments are Merchant Acquiring, Payment Services - Puerto Rico & Caribbean, Latin America Payments and Solutions, and Business Solutions which derive maximum revenue. The company serves a diversified customer base of financial institutions, merchants, corporations, and government agencies with mission-critical technology solutions that enable them to issue, process, and accept transactions securely. It derives maximum revenue from Latin America Payments and Solutions. Geographically, it operates in Puerto Rico, Caribbean, and Latin America.

Fawry For Banking Technology And Electronic Payment is engaged in providing operations services specialized in systems and communications, management, operating and maintenance of equipment's and computers networks services and internal systems of banks, networks, and centralized systems, establish operating systems for banking services through the internet, phone and e-payment services and circulation of secured documents electronically, and renting properties.

Juspay is a Bengaluru-based digital payments infrastructure provider, founded in 2012, that powers payment processing for clients including Amazon, Flipkart, Google, IndiGo, Swiggy, and banks such as HSBC. The platform has evolved from payment orchestration into a full-stack UPI platform and core payments infrastructure for banks and enterprises, processing more than 300 million transactions daily with annualized total payment volume exceeding $1 trillion. Juspay operates globally, with offices in San Francisco, Dublin, São Paulo, Singapore, and Dubai, serving more than 500 enterprises and banks across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and North America.

Opn is a Bangkok-headquartered fintech platform, rebranded from SYNQA in 2022, delivering payment processing, blockchain solutions, and digital transformation services across Asia since 2013. Powered by Omise, it supports thousands of merchants with gateways for cards, wallets, and bank transfers. Opn enables embedded finance for platforms in e-commerce and ride-hailing.

PPRO is a London-headquartered fintech firm offering payments orchestration infrastructure that connects businesses, banks, payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants to over 150 local payment methods in 120 countries through a single API. The platform delivers checkout optimization, acquiring services, fraud screening, and risk tools deployable without coding. Partners such as Citi, PayPal, and Stripe utilize PPRO to streamline operations, increase conversion rates, and manage complex payment flows across regions including Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.

Worldline is a payment service provider offering merchant acquiring, payment processing, and payment infrastructure solutions to merchants and banks.

Paysafe Ltd is an integrated payments platform. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. The company provides payment solutions through three primary lines of business: Integrated Processing, Digital Wallet and eCash Solutions. It derives a majority of revenue from the USA followed by Germany, the UK, and all other countries.

Payment Financial Technologies Ltd owns the PaymenT brand which is a payment platform. It is a means of payment that allows businesses to offer financing to their customers easily, quickly, and conveniently and receive immediate payment for the products and services sold.

Visa is the largest payment processor in the world. In fiscal 2025, it processed almost $17 trillion in total volume. Visa operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 160 currencies. Its systems are capable of processing over 65,000 transactions per second.

Mastercard is the second-largest payment processor in the world, having processed close to $10 trillion in volume during 2024. Mastercard operates in over 200 countries and processes transactions in over 150 currencies.