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Founded in 2009, Block provides payment services to merchants, along with related services. The company also launched Cash App, a person-to-person payment network. In 2024, Square's payment volume was almost USD 250 million.

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.

Adyen is a payment company that provides merchants with a single platform to accept e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments in multiple countries using various payment schemes and methodologies. Adyen started out providing only gateway and payment processing services to merchants but soon expanded into merchant acquiring services as well. Adyen obtained a banking license to improve settlement of merchant accounts.

Global Payments is a leading provider of payment processing and software solutions and focuses on serving small and midsize merchants. The company operates in 30 countries and generates about one fourth of its revenue from outside North America, primarily in Europe and Asia. In 2019, Global Payments merged with Total System Services in an all-stock deal that gave Total System Services shareholders 48% of the combined company’s shares. The merger added issuer processing operations.

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 that 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.

One97 Communications Ltd is a digital ecosystem for consumers and merchants. The company is in the business of providing a) payment and financial services which mainly include payment facilitator services, facilitation of consumer and merchant loan distribution to consumers and merchants, wealth management, etc. b) marketing services which consist of aggregator for digital products, ticketing business, providing voice and messaging platforms to the telecom operators and enterprise customers and other businesses. The group generates the majority of its revenue from customers domiciled in India.

Edenred is a France-listed prepaid corporate services provider operating in 45 countries. The company was listed in 2010 following a spinoff from hotel group Accor. Edenred's main business, Ticket Restaurant, offers prepaid meal vouchers that employers provide their employees as an additional benefit. The company is also involved in other areas, such as prepaid fuel cards and payment and expense management systems. Edenred is also moving beyond its historical services, adding well-being, gift, EV, toll, and business-to-business accounts payable automation services.

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.

kakaopay Corp is a mobile payment and digital wallet service provider. It provides easy payment, easy remittance, and other financial services. It operates in two segments: Financial Services and Non-financial Services.

GMO Payment Gateway is a major Japanese provider of cashless and online payment infrastructure, serving many sectors including digital content and telecommunications, utilities, retail and hospitality, financial services, healthcare, and education. It serves a wide array of clients, from government agencies and municipalities to enterprises and merchants, across online and offline channels, including e-commerce platforms, physical stores, and unattended machines. Its services encompass payment processing, settlement solutions, and ancillary offerings such as early or deferred settlement services, transaction lending, buy now, pay later, online advertising, and internet security. GMO is expanding into adjacent financial technology operations, and gradually across Asia and North America.

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.

Shift4 Payments Inc is provider of integrated payment processing and technology solutions. The company offers software providers a single integration to an end-to-end payments offering, a powerful gateway and a robust suite of technology solutions (including cloud enablement, business intelligence, analytics, and mobile) to enhance the value of their software suites and simplify payment acceptance. The company derives maximum revenue from United States.

Lakala payment Co Ltd is a third-party payment company in China. It provides personal payment, merchant payment, credit reporting and other business including online and offline" by means of hardware and software.

Euronet Worldwide Inc is a provider of electronic financial transaction solutions. It offers payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers, and individual consumers. The company's product offerings include comprehensive ATM, POS, card outsourcing, card issuing and merchant acquiring services, software solutions, money transfer services, etc. Its reportable operating segments are EFT Processing, epay, and Money Transfer. Maximum revenue is derived from its Money Transfer segment, which provides money transfer services across the world under the brand names Ria, AFEX, IME, and xe. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the United States, followed by Germany, India, France, Greece, and other regions.

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.

StoneCo Ltd is a provider of financial technology solutions. It serves MSMBs solutions, at fair prices, and provides the customer experience to help them manage their businesses and sell more. Its Stone Business Model combines end-to-end, cloud-based technology platforms; differentiated hyper-local and integrated distribution approaches; and white-glove, on-demand customer service. It has two segments Financial Services segment, which includes payments solutions, digital banking, credit, insurance solutions as well as the registry business. In the Software segment solution includes POS/ERP, TEF and QR Code gateways, reconciliation, CRM, OMS, e-commerce platform, engagement tool, ads solution, and marketplace hub. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Financial Services segment.

PagSeguro Digital Ltd is a Brazilian-based company that acts as a provider of financial technology solutions focused on Micro-Merchants, Small Companies and Medium-Sized Companies (SMEs), in Brazil. The company provides a range of solutions and tools such as cash-in and cash-out options and provides access to working capital to help to manage its cash flow. It delivers an end-to-end digital ecosystem to address day-to-day financial needs, including receiving and spending funds and managing and growing businesses for clients. The company also offers the Free PagSeguro Digital Account delivering Cash-In Solutions, Online and In-Person Payment Tools, Online Payment Tools; and Web Check Outs offer tokenization, handling of shipping information, and others.

Flywire Corp provides a secure payment platform, offering its clients a streamlined process to receive reconciled domestic and international payments more cost-effectively and efficiently. The company's solutions are built on three core elements, namely a payments platform, a proprietary payment network, and vertical-specific software backed by its deep industry expertise. Geographically, the majority of revenue is from the Americas.

Payoneer Global Inc is a financial technology company purpose-built to enable the world’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMB(s)) to grow and operate their businesses around the world by reliably and securely connecting them to the digital economy. The company started to empower commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries, and currencies with its diversified cross-border payments platform.

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.

PicS NV is a digital payments company. The company operates a peer-to-peer (P2P) transfer platform that enables individuals to send money via mobile devices. It provides digital wallets, instant payments (Pix), P2P transfers, credit cards, loans, investments, insurance, and SMB payment solutions. The company has four reportable segments: Consumer Banking, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Audiences and Ecosystem Integration, and Institutional. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from the Consumer Banking segment, which generates revenue from various transaction activities occurring in the digital wallet, such as Pix, peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers, and bill payments.

Deluxe Corp is principally a payments and data company. Its reportable segments are: Merchant Services, B2B Payments, Data Solutions, and Print. Maximum revenue is derived from its Print segment, which provides printed personal and business checks, business essentials, as well as branded promotional, print, apparel, and digital storefront solutions. The Merchant Services segment provides electronic credit and debit card authorization, payment systems, and processing services. The B2B segment offers treasury management solutions, integrated accounts payable disbursements, and fraud and security services, and the Data Solutions segment offers data, analytics, and marketing services, as well as financial institution profitability reporting and business incorporation services.

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

SLR Investment Corp is a closed-end externally managed, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be treated as a business development company. It provides U.S. middle market businesses and intermediaries with bespoke debt financing solutions to fund working capital, acquisition, refinancing and growth capital requirements. The company's investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. The company invests principally in leveraged middle-market companies in the form of senior secured loans, financing leases, and to a lesser extent, unsecured loans and equity securities.

Lianlian DigiTech Co Ltd provides digital payment services and value-added services. Its business clients consist of small and mid-sized merchants and enterprises. Its reportable segments include Global payment, domestic payment, value-added services, and others, which represent a small amount of revenue from other sources, including rental income, interest income, and factoring income. Key revenue is generated from the Global payment segment.

Boku Inc is a carrier billing company. Its technology enables mobile phone users to buy goods and services and make online payments using their mobile devices. The company's operating segment is Payments. It generates maximum revenue from the Payments segment, which is engaged in the provision of a payment platform that enables mobile phone users to buy goods and services and charge them to their mobile phone or prepaid balance. Its geographical segments are the Americas, APAC, and EMEA(Europe, the Middle East & Africa). The majority is from APAC.

Fast Finance Pay Corp is a FinTech company that offers payment processing solutions, ff24 Payments, and standard banking processes, combined with white-labeling banking capability. Its ff24 Payments offers payment processing solutions, whether for one-off purchases or recurring subscriptions and is aimed at large and small online merchants as well as operators of the growing number of websites. It derives its income from the freemium subscription model. The ff24 Pay offers banking and instant transfer solutions for a wide range of the world's important currencies.

LINE Pay Taiwan Ltd is a company offering ways to to make payments with credit cards. LINE Pay can be used in Taiwan and Korea.

SZZT Electronics Co Ltd is engaged in the development, production, and sale of security payment terminals. The company offers a variety of differentiated financial payment solutions such as the terminal, business software, platform operations and computer hosting. In addition, the company also supplies infrastructure services for internet companies.

Digital Garage Inc integrates three technologies--information technology, marketing technology, and financial technology--into one solution that it provides to its business customers. The company operates three primary business segments. The incubation segment invests in and develops startups and new businesses. The marketing segment provides advertising and promotion solutions that reach consumers. The financial segment offers payment solutions to monetize Internet businesses. The marketing and financial segments provide most of the company's revenue. Digital Garage operates primarily in Japan.

Priority Technology Holdings Inc is a provider of merchant acquiring and commercial payment solutions to small and medium business enterprises in the United States. The company has three reportable segments which are SMB Payments, B2B Payments, and Enterprise Payments. SMB Payments segment which generates the majority of revenue provides full-service acquiring and payment-enabled solutions for B2C transactions, leveraging Priority's proprietary software platform, distributed through ISO; the B2B Payments segment provides AP automation solutions to corporations, software partners, & industry FIs: and Enterprise Payments segment provides embedded payment & treasury solutions to enterprise customers to modernize legacy platforms & accelerate software partners' strategies to monetize payments.

Hightech Payment Systems SA is the group that provides solutions and services involving electronic payment. The group offers are structured in the following business units - HPS Solutions, HPS Processing, HPS Services, Safety, and Other Products. HPS Solutions designs, develops, markets, installs, and supports a suite of multi-channel electronic payment solutions. PowerCARD software suite offers comprehensive, configurable and scalable solutions to meet the user needs. The company's software and services are sold covering many geographical areas such as Europe, Americas, Africa and the Middle East and Asia. The group's majority revenue is generated from the sale of HPS solutions.

Lesaka Technologies Inc provides payment solutions, transaction processing solutions, and financial technologies. The company operates three reportable segments: Merchant, Consumer and Enterprise. Merchant, which focuses on both formal and informal sector merchants. Consumer, which focuses on individuals who have historically been excluded from traditional financial services and to whom it offers transactional accounts (banking), insurance, lending (short-term loans), payments solutions and various value-added services; and Enterprise, which comprises large-scale corporate and government organizations, including but not limited to banks, mobile network operators (MNOs) and municipalities, and, through Recharger, landlords utilizing Recharger's prepaid electricity metering solution.

PayPoint PLC is a United Kingdom-based company that provides consumer transaction services. The company's solutions help clients control household finances, essential payments, and in-store services. The company's operations involve processing high-volume transactions, managing retailers and clients, selling funds, and transmitting data. PayPoint's network covers convenience stores and numerous outlets, where clients can use the company's solutions to make energy meter prepayments, bill payments, benefit payments, mobile phone top-ups, cash withdrawals, and other services. Its operating segments are; PayPoint which derives key revenue, and Love2shop. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the UK.

NHN KCP Corp is engaged in the online payment business. NHN KCP organizes its business operations into four segments: Payment Gateway Service, VAN Service, Smart Service, and Additional Services. Payment Gateway Service comprises general payments, periodic accounting, electronic payments by ARS. VAN Service includes online payment processing by credit card, IC card, and points card. Smart Service consists payment service by smart devices. Its additional services comprised mobile phone authentication service and mobile student ID. The company is one of the principal market share holders in the internet shopping mall transactions and the online VAN services in Korea.

PaySign Inc is a provider of prepaid card programs, comprehensive patient affordability offerings, digital banking services, and integrated payment processing designed for businesses, consumers, and government institutions. The Company creates customized payment solutions for clients across industries, including pharmaceutical, healthcare, hospitality, and retail. The company's revenues include fees generated from cardholder fees, interchange, card program management fees, transaction claims processing fees, and settlement income.

i3 Verticals Inc provides mission-critical enterprise software solutions to public sector entities. These comprehensive cloud-native solutions address a broad range of government functions, including courts and public safety, public administration, utilities, transportation and schools. The company generates the majority of revenue from software and related services, including the sale of subscriptions, recurring services, ongoing support, licenses, and installation and implementation services specific to software.

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.

Tyro Payments is an Australian financial technology company engaged in providing routing payments solutions and business banking products to merchants. The firm mainly caters to small to medium-size enterprises in the hospitality, retail and health sectors. It is also expanding its reach into adjacent new markets such as trade, accommodation and services. Tyro’s value propositions include extensive industry-specific solutions, ease of integration with point-of-sale systems, broad acceptance of payment types and a variety of ancillary features. Despite Tyro’s historic focus on in-store sales, it is also building up online gateways to facilitate e-commerce transactions and build out a multichannel payment solution. Geographically, it operates only in Australia.

Repay Holdings Corp is engaged in providing integrated payment processing solutions to verticals that have transaction processing needs. It allows customers to pay through Mobile App, Text, Interactive Voice Response, Virtual Terminal, Hosted Payment Page and Online Customer Portal among others. It operates in two segments Consumer Payments and Business Payments.

Yeahka Ltd is a payment-based technology platform in China that provides payment and business services to merchants and consumers. It derives revenue from one-stop payment services, merchant solutions services, and in-store e-commerce services. One-stop payment services provide merchants with their acceptance of non-cash payments from consumers, by connecting the merchants with the payment networks; Merchant solutions services leveraging on the established customer base acquired from the provision of the one-stop payment services, the Group also provides series of value-added merchant solutions services; In-store e-commerce services leveraging on the established customer base with merchants acquired from providing one-stop payment services, and others.

CAB Payments Holdings PLC offers cross-border payments and banking services for hard-to-reach markets around the world. Along with its subsidiaries, the company operates in three principal business lines, addressing various combinations of client groups, distribution networks, and services: Foreign Exchange (FX), which derives maximum revenue, Payments, and Banking Services. Foreign Exchange (FX) business provides access to clients to various markets and currencies, and enables them to trade in a way that suits their business needs, via web app, GUI or FIX API; Payments business provides international payment solutions; and Banking Services, engages in wholesale banking, providing transaction and deposit accounts, in addition to trade finance solutions.

DANAL Co Ltd is a South Korea based company engaged in providing wired and wireless telephone payment services in South Korea. The company offers digital content payment services; and smartphone barcode payment services, as well as cell phone billing, cell phone ringtone downloads, and ringtones.

Hecto Financial Co Ltd is engaged in providing online payment based system. It provides services such as Real-time bank transfer, Virtual Account, Mobile phone billing, Gift Vouchers and Online payment through credit card.

Fonix PLC is a provider of mobile payments and customer engagement solutions for businesses across media, charity, gaming, e-mobility, and other digital services. This technology enables consumers to pay and interact directly through their mobile devices using simple, familiar channels. It operates under one operating segment, which is the facilitating of mobile payments and messaging. It derives the majority of its revenue through commission or facilitation fees by providing Mobile Payments services. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the United Kingdom and the rest from other parts of Europe.

Kginicis Co Ltd is primarily engaged in the provision of electronic payment gateway services and the internet and computer operation-related business. The company offers a comprehensive line of payment services including credit, debit, purchasing card, electronic fund transfer processing, gift card, loyalty card, stored value cards, point-of-sale equipment, and related services; merchant accounting and customized reporting.