PayU

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PayU
Company type Private
IndustryFintech, Payments Service Provider
Founded2002
FounderJose Velez, Martin Schrimpff, Arjan Bakker, Grzegorz Brochocki, Nitin Gupta, Shailaz Nag
Number of locations
17
Key people
Anirban Mukherjee (CEO)
Number of employees
1500
Parent Naspers
Website corporate.payu.com

PayU is a Netherlands-based payment service provider to online merchants. [1] [2] The company was founded in 2002, [3] and is headquartered in Hoofddorp. It allows online businesses to accept and process payments through payment methods that can be integrated with web and mobile applications. [4] [5] As of 2018, the service is available in 17 countries. [6] The firm is owned by the Naspers Group, which also owns a stake in one of its sister companies, Tencent. [7] [8]

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History

PayU is the result of multiple payment gateways in various regions of the world that have been acquired and brought into the PayU group. [9] [10] [11] In 2014, all online payment companies that were part of Naspers started operating under the PayU brand.

In 2022, it fired about 150 employees, approximately 6% of its workforce. [12]

In 2023, PayU sold its global payments business, other than those in its core markets of India, Southeast Asia and Turkey, to Rapyd for $610 million. [13]

Investment and acquisitions

Operations

Europe

In November 2006, PayU SA was established and the Polish firm Platnosci.pl was merged into the group. The company also has a partnership with Iwoca to make financing for SME firms easier. [30] In 2010, the company expanded to the Czech Republic. In 2011, the company expanded to Romania. In 2012, it began its operations in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Slovakia and Hungary. [31]

Latin America

In 2002, Pagosonline was founded in Colombia by Jose Velez, Martin Schrimpff and Santiago Spinel.[ citation needed ]

In 2010, PagosOnline sold a majority stake to Buscapé, which was a part of the Naspers Group. [32] In 2011, Naspers acquired the majority stake in DineroMail. [33] In 2013, Naspers acquired the rest of the shares of DineroMail. [34] In 2012, Naspers acquired Pagosonline, replacing the former two with a new payment platform that eventually was rebranded PayU Latam, which begun operations in Panama and Peru. [35] During the course of 2013 and 2014, PayU Latam and DineroMail merged. [36] [37] In 2016, Bcash and PayU, were merged under the PayU brand in Brazil. [38]

Africa

PayJar was founded in South Africa in 2010 as part of the Naspers group to help other Naspers companies process online payments. In 2011, PayJar was rebranded to PayU. [39] In 2015, PayU expanded its operations to Nigeria. [40] [41]

India

In 2011, Ibibo in conjunction with co-founders Nitin Gupta and Shailaz Nag, rolled out a payment gateway, PayU, in the Indian market to permit websites to integrate e-commerce transactions through online payments. [42] [43]

Products and services

PayU is a regulated financial institution. It holds licenses from central banks and local regulators. PayU's products include a PCI-DSS certified payment gateway, [44] [45] an anti-fraud system and an online Visa/MasterCard acquirer. [46] [47] [48]

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