“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?”
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.