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Acquired Com

Can a UK-focused payments infrastructure provider build a vertically-specialised acquiring and checkout platform that displaces generic PSPs in sectors like lending and financial services?

HQUnited Kingdom
IndustryInfrastructure / Payments
The story

Acquired.com is a UK-based digital payments infrastructure provider offering merchant acquiring, hosted checkout, and payment orchestration services. The company has expanded beyond generic card acceptance to serve specific verticals such as lending, providing specialised disbursement and collections tooling. Its partnership with Finaro signals an ambition to expand merchant acquiring capabilities geographically or via additional acquiring rails.

Last 12 months
The stack
Payments / PSP
Acquired.com (self-operated)Finaro
Lending
Lending payment disbursement (Visa Direct, Mastercard Send, Faster Payments)Lending collections (Direct Debit, Open Banking, Card)
Accounting gap: none