“Can a global employee benefits and prepaid payments company become the go-to embedded finance infrastructure layer for fintechs and enterprises across the UK and EU?”
Founded as a meal voucher company for employee benefits, Edenred evolved over decades into a global payments infrastructure group operating across employee benefits, corporate mobility, and complementary solutions. The acquisition of PrePay Technologies Ltd (PPT, FCA-regulated since 2003) transformed the group into a regulated e-money institution with a full card issuing and embedded finance stack. Edenred now operates as both an end-user of financial services and a B2B infrastructure provider (via Edenred Payment Solutions / EPS) offering white-label embedded finance, card issuing, e-money accounts, and BNPL infrastructure to fintechs and enterprises across the UK and EU.
Edenred discloses PrePay Technologies Ltd (self-operated) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Edenred does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through PrePay Technologies Ltd (self-operated).
Edenred processes payments through PrePay Technologies Ltd (self-operated) and PPS EU SA (self-operated). Disclosed money-movement rails: ACH, SEPA and Faster Payments.
Edenred's cards are issued through PrePay Technologies Ltd / PPS EU SA (self-operated).
Edenred uses Signzy for KYC and identity verification.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 6 layers in Edenred's stack: Payments / PSP (PrePay Technologies Ltd (self-operated) and PPS EU SA (self-operated)); Money movement (ACH, SEPA and Faster Payments); Banking / BaaS (PrePay Technologies Ltd (self-operated)); Card issuing (PrePay Technologies Ltd / PPS EU SA (self-operated)); Lending (BNPL infrastructure for fintechs (POS lending via virtual cards), Single-use VCN-based instalment payments and Deferred payment card programs); KYC (Signzy).
Edenred is founded in 1962 and headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
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