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| Company type | Naamloze vennootschap |
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| ISIN | NL0012969182 US00783V1044  |
| Industry | Payment processor,technology,e-commerce,point of sale |
| Founded | 2006; 19 years ago (2006) |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam ,Netherlands |
Key people |
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| Services | Payment service provider, gateway, risk management, local acquiring, point of sale, issuing |
| Revenue |  €1.996 billion (2024)[1] |
| €925 million (2024)[2] | |
| Total assets | €11.425 billion (2024)[3] |
| Total equity | €4.232 billion (2024)[4] |
Number of employees | 4,345[5] (2024) |
| Website | adyen.com |
| Footnotes / references [6] | |
Adyen is a Dutchpayment company with the status of anacquiring bank that allows businesses to accepte-commerce, mobile, andpoint-of-sale payments. It is listed on the stock exchangeEuronext Amsterdam.[8]
Adyen offers merchants online services to acceptelectronic payments using payment methods includingcredit cards,debit cards,wire transfers, and real-time bank transfers based ononline banking. It connects merchants to different payment methods, including international credit cards, local cash-based methods, andmobile payment methods. The technology platform acts as apayment gateway and apayment service provider.[9]
Adyen was founded in 2006 byPieter van der Does andArnout Schuijff, now the CEO and CTO, respectively.[10] Headquartered inAmsterdam, the company employs around 2,000 people in offices in twenty-three countries.[9]
The name Adyen means 'start again' inSranan Tongo.[11] This is a reference to this being the second project of the founders afterBibit.[12]
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.[13]
In 2015, Adyen achieved a valuation of $2.3 billion, making it the sixth-largest Europeanunicorn.[14]
In 2016, it obtained an acquiring license in Brazil through a BIN sponsorship.[13]
In 2017, the company was granted a Europeanbanking license, which gave it the status of anacquiring bank.[15] It also obtained acquiring licenses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.[16][17]
In 2018, the company announced that it would be listing its shares publicly inAmsterdam.[18] TheIPO took place on 13 June 2018.[19]
In 2019, Adyen opened new offices in Tokyo and Mumbai, and expanded its payment offering in Africa.[20] In the same year, it launched Adyen Issuing, a virtual and physical card-issuing business to complement payments services to merchants.[21]
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 theCOVID-19 pandemic. It launched mobile Android POS devices worldwide in the second half of the year.[22] In addition, it opened a new office in Dubai, expanding its offering in the Middle East.[23]
The company has been profitable since 2011.[24] Its earnings grew from $46 million in 2015 to $87 million in 2016.[24] Its gross revenue grew 99 percent in 2016 to $727 million.[25][26][24]
In December 2014, the company announced a funding round of $250 million led by growth equity firmGeneral Atlantic, joined by existing investorsTemasek Holdings,Index Ventures, and Felicis Ventures.[27][28]
In 2016, the company saw transaction volume increase to $90 billion, up from $50 billion in 2015.[29]
In 2017, Adyen surpassed €100 billion in processed volume.[13]
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 withPayPal. In 2021, eBay transitioned a majority of its marketplace customers to Adyen.[30]
In 2021, net revenue hit €1 billion.[31]
In 2022, the company exceeded €1.3 billion in revenue.[32]
