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Company type | Naamloze vennootschap |
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ISIN | US00783V1044 |
Industry | Payment processor, technology, e-commerce, point of sale |
Founded | 2006 |
Founders | |
Headquarters | Amsterdam , Netherlands |
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Services | Payment service provider, gateway, risk management, local acquiring, point of sale, issuing |
Revenue | €1.19 billion (2022) [1] : 129 |
€649 million (2022) [1] : 129 | |
€564 million (2022) [1] : 129 | |
Total assets | €7.09 billion (2022) [1] : 130 |
Total equity | €2.41 billion (2022) [1] : 130 |
Number of employees | 3,883 [2] (2023) |
Website | www |
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Adyen is a Dutch payment company with the status of an acquiring bank that allows businesses to accept e-commerce, mobile, and point-of-sale payments. It is listed on the stock exchange Euronext Amsterdam. [3]
Adyen offers merchants online services to accept electronic payments using payment methods including credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, and real-time bank transfers based on online banking. It connects merchants to different payment methods, including international credit cards, local cash-based methods, and mobile payment methods. The technology platform acts as a payment gateway and a payment service provider. [4]
Adyen was founded in 2006 by Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff, now the CEO and CTO, respectively. [5] Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company employs around 2,000 people in offices in twenty-three countries. [4]
The name Adyen means 'start again' in Sranan Tongo. [6] This is a reference to this being the second project of the founders after Bibit. [7]
In 2012, Adyen started to expand globally, opening its offices in San Francisco, Paris, and London. In the same year, it obtained its pan-European acquiring a license. [8]
In 2015, Adyen achieved a valuation of $2.3 billion, making it the sixth-largest European unicorn. [9]
In 2016, it obtained an acquiring license in Brazil through a BIN sponsorship. [8] In the same year, Adyen was ranked #10 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. [10]
In April 2017, the company was granted a European banking license, which gives it the status of an acquiring bank. [11] It also obtained acquiring licenses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. [12] [13]
On 24 May 2018, the company announced that it would be making the company public by listing shares publicly in Amsterdam. [14] The IPO took place on 13 June 2018. [15]
In 2019, Adyen opened new offices in Tokyo and Mumbai, and expanded its payment offering in Africa. [16] In the same year, it launched Adyen Issuing, a virtual and physical card-issuing business to complement payments services to merchants. [17]
In 2020, the company benefited from an accelerated digitalization of global ecommerce in the online retail segment, which compensated for the declining travel volumes in enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It launched mobile Android POS devices worldwide in the second half of the year. [18] In addition, it opened a new office in Dubai, expanding its offering in the Middle East. [19]
The company has been profitable since 2011. [20] Its earnings grew from $46 million in 2015 to $87 million in 2016. [20] Its gross revenue grew 99 percent in 2016 to $727 million. [21] [22] [20]
In December 2014, the company announced a funding round of $250 million led by growth equity firm General Atlantic, joined by existing investors Temasek Holdings, Index Ventures, and Felicis Ventures. [23] [24]
In 2016, the company saw transaction volume increase to $90 billion, up from $50 billion in 2015. [25]
In 2017, Adyen surpassed €100 billion in processed volume. [8]
On January 31, 2018, eBay announced that it had signed an agreement with Adyen to become its primary payments processing partner. eBay began intermediation on a small scale in North America starting in the second half of 2018, expanding in 2019 under the terms of the operating agreement with PayPal. In 2021, eBay transitioned a majority of its marketplace customers to Adyen. [26]
In 2020, Adyen had a net revenue of €684 million, a 28% increase year-on-year. [27]
In 2021, net revenue hit €1 billion. [28]
In 2022, the company exceeded €1.3 billion in revenue. [29]
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