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]
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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 |
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| 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 |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Adyen offers merchants online services for merchants 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 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]
Growth
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]