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Adyen N.V.
Company type Naamloze vennootschap
ISIN NL0012969182
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Industry Payment processor, technology, e-commerce, point of sale
Founded2006;18 years ago (2006)
Founders
Headquarters
Amsterdam
,
Netherlands
Key people
  • Pieter van der Does (CEO)
Services Payment service provider, gateway, risk management, local acquiring, point of sale, issuing
RevenueIncrease2.svg €1.19 billion (2022) [1] : 129 
Increase2.svg €649 million (2022) [1] : 129 
Increase2.svg €564 million (2022) [1] : 129 
Total assets Increase2.svg €7.09 billion (2022) [1] : 130 
Total equity Increase2.svg €2.41 billion (2022) [1] : 130 
Number of employees
3,883 [2]  (2023)
Website adyen.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

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]

Contents

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]

History

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 2017, the company was granted a European banking license, which gave it the status of an acquiring bank. [10] It also obtained acquiring licenses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. [11] [12]

In 2018, the company announced that it would be listing its shares publicly in Amsterdam. [13] The IPO took place on 13 June 2018. [14]

In 2019, Adyen opened new offices in Tokyo and Mumbai, and expanded its payment offering in Africa. [15] In the same year, it launched Adyen Issuing, a virtual and physical card-issuing business to complement payments services to merchants. [16]

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. [17] In addition, it opened a new office in Dubai, expanding its offering in the Middle East. [18]

Growth

The company has been profitable since 2011. [19] Its earnings grew from $46 million in 2015 to $87 million in 2016. [19] Its gross revenue grew 99 percent in 2016 to $727 million. [20] [21] [19]

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. [22] [23]

In 2016, the company saw transaction volume increase to $90 billion, up from $50 billion in 2015. [24]

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. [25]

In 2021, net revenue hit €1 billion. [26]

In 2022, the company exceeded €1.3 billion in revenue. [27]

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References

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