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November 16, 2023

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Adyen Launches Capital for Australia Platform Customers

Adyen

"Adyen has launched Capital, a product that enables businesses on Adyen for Platforms offer timely access to funding for their small and medium-sized business (SMB) users in Australia. Capital enables platforms to proactively offer business financing to their SMB users based on historic payments data."

November 2, 2023

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October 30, 2023

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September 12, 2023

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September 7, 2023

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Stripe Rival Adyen Secures Banking License in the UK

CNBC

"Adyen has acquired a banking license in the U.K., which enables its merchants to offer cash advances to small and medium-sized enterprises in the country.Adyen already has a banking license in the Netherlands, which lets it process merchant payments nearly instantly."

July 14, 2023

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July 11, 2023

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Adyen Expands In-Person Payments Solutions with Tap to Pay on Android

PR Newswire

"Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is expanding its in-person payment offering with Tap to Pay on Android. The software-based solution allows businesses to convert any compatible Android device, such as smartphones, tablets, kiosks, and handheld devices, into a payment terminal and accept contactless payments, removing checkout friction for businesses."

July 6, 2023

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June 1, 2023

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Adyen Set to Free Millions in Daily Cash Flow for Customers with Faster Payout Services

PR Newswire

"Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announces the launch of Payout Services. This offering enables Adyen's customers to payout acquired funds in the preferred method of their affiliated users or partners with increased velocity, and represents Adyen's commitment to keeping their customers' needs at the core of their product development."

April 18, 2023

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Adyen Brings Unified Commerce to Malaysia with In-Store Payments Solutions

Adyen

"Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today launches its Unified Commerce solution in Malaysia to help businesses flexibly meet ever-evolving consumer expectations. Powered by Adyen’s single platform, Unified Commerce gives businesses end-to-end control of transactions across sales channels (online, in-app, and in-store), effectively breaking down traditional commerce silos to equip Malaysian businesses with a richer understanding of their consumers in a single overview."

January 6, 2023

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MACH Alliance Announces New Member Adyen

PR Newswire

"MACH Alliance, the group of independent tech companies dedicated to advocating for open, best-of-breed technology ecosystems, announced today that Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has become its latest new member. Adyen provides end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights and financial products in a single global solution for customers like Facebook, Uber, H&M, eBay and Microsoft."

December 13, 2022

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Adyen Brings Unified Commerce to Japan with the Launch of In-Person Payments

Adyen

“Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces the launch of its unified commerce solution in Japan. Unified commerce gives businesses end-to-end control of transactions across different sales channels on Adyen’s single platform, enabling innovative and new customer journeys such as click-and-collect, endless aisle, and cross-channel returns. As Japan moves away from cash and with more businesses expanding their sales channels, there is a tremendous growth opportunity for businesses that have an integrated overview of all transactions. In a survey of businesses earlier this year, Adyen found there is a 24% increase in growth among Japan businesses that connect payment systems across their business compared to those that don’t. However, only 16% of Japanese businesses said that their payments system is connected to other parts of the organization, such as operations, supply chain management or inventory management.”

November 29, 2022

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Adyen Empowers Accounting Platform Moneybird to Offer Financial Services

PR Newswire

“Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces that software as a service (SaaS) platform, Moneybird, is the latest customer utilizing its newly launched suite of embedded financial products. Designed to simplify accounting processes for entrepreneurs, Moneybird facilitates bookkeeping needs ranging from vendor onboarding to invoicing and VAT reconciliation. To further meet their user’s business needs, Moneybird has integrated Adyen’s card issuing and business accounts – taking their offering from balance sheet oversight to fully embedded financial services. Moneybird users can now enjoy the synergies between accounting and banking, which go hand-in-hand to provide complete cash flow management.”

October 24, 2022

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Adyen Powers the Future of Financial Services by Launching Embedded Financial Products

PR Newswire

“Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has broadened its offering by taking live two new embedded financial products – Capital and Accounts – which are now available to platform and marketplace businesses in the US and Europe via Adyen’s single integration. Research conducted in partnership with Boston Consulting Group finds that 64% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are interested in financial services embedded within a platform. To capitalize on this banking-as-a-service opportunity, Adyen has developed an innovative suite of financial products comprising cash advances, business bank accounts, and card issuing. Together with embedded payments, these power the future of financial services by enabling platforms to deliver superior financial experiences to their SMB users.”

October 13, 2022

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Adyen Brings Unified Commerce Offering and Local Acquiring to Mexico

Yahoo Finance/TechCrunch

“Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces that it is launching its unified commerce solution in Mexico. Bolstered by the company’s recently enabled full acquiring capabilities in the country, Adyen can now maintain end-to-end control of the payment flow for transactions occurring in-person and online. Engineered to consolidate data across all sales channels, unified commerce enables businesses to develop a deeper understanding of their consumers in a single overview. The extension of Adyen’s unified commerce offering and local acquiring capabilities in Mexico underlines the business’ commitment to growing its activities in the region.”

October 5, 2022

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Adyen Deepens its Partnership with Tink, Adding Open Banking Payments

AltFi

“Listed payments giant Adyen is partnering with open banking provider Tink in order to offer open banking payments to its customers. The team-up adds payment initiation to the existing relationship between the two fintechs, with Tink already providing an Account Check service to Adyen customers for verifying account ownership. “With the scale of Adyen’s reach, our partnership will rapidly accelerate the global adoption of open banking powered payments,” said Tom Pope, Tink’s head of payments and platforms. Adyen’s launch of open banking payments will start in the UK, with plans to expand into multiple markets in 2023.”

September 15, 2022

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Adyen Selected As First Financial Technology Platform to Launch Cash App Pay

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“Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has partnered with Cash App (Block, Inc.) to offer Cash App Pay, a mobile payment method, to Adyen’s U.S. customers. Businesses working with Adyen will have access to Cash App Pay as an integrated payment method for their U.S. customers. The payment method will be available online shortly and in-store next year. By offering Cash App Pay, Adyen’s businesses will be providing customers with a convenient and simple way to pay using their Cash App balance or linked debit card. This Cash App software integration will also provide Adyen’s business customers access to Cash App’s 80 million annual actives, which make up a third of Millennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. This will provide their customers with access to a seamless, secure checkout experience that can feature high authorization rates and an improved shopping experience.”

August 18, 2022

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Adyen Advances In-Person Payments with the Launch of In-House Designed Terminal Range

Adyen

“Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is pleased to announce the launch of its first in-house designed terminals. Innovated to facilitate diverse payment use cases, the terminal range marks the latest step forward in Adyen’s growing unified commerce offering. Running on the company’s single platform, the new devices remain inherently flexible, in order to address a rapidly advancing payment landscape and ever-evolving customer needs. Adyen remains focused on driving innovation in unified commerce, ranging from enterprises to SMBs via platforms. The devices realize customer wishes to be mobile, discrete, reliable, affordable, with long-lasting battery, and accepting payments spanning a tap, dip, or swipe. The company thoughtfully considered the model’s design details, ensuring the sound, look and feel all speak to Adyen’s standard of excellence across payment experiences…The terminals will launch initially for Adyen customers in the US and EMEA, before a global launch in 2023.”

June 30, 2022

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Oracle and Adyen Help Restaurants Streamline Contactless Payment Acceptance

Insider Intelligence

“Oracle introduced Food and Beverage Payment Cloud Service, a point-of-sale (POS) system that helps restaurants accept contactless payments, per a press release. Under the hood: Oracle is using Adyen for Platforms—the payment processor’s solution that lets platform-based businesses onboard sellers and submerchants and accept payments on their behalf—to help power the service…. Oracle introduced Food and Beverage Payment Cloud Service, a point-of-sale (POS) system that helps restaurants accept contactless payments, per a press release. Under the hood: Oracle is using Adyen for Platforms—the payment processor’s solution that lets platform-based businesses onboard sellers and submerchants and accept payments on their behalf—to help power the service.”

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