“Can a merchant-first payment orchestration layer built for Southern European mid-market merchants become the default multi-acquirer infrastructure for omnichannel businesses across 90+ markets?”
Founded in 2018 in Amsterdam, Paybyrd took a build-from-scratch approach to omnichannel payment infrastructure, targeting mid-to-large merchants in Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Brazil) and beyond. The platform evolved from a pure payment gateway into a multi-acquirer orchestration layer, adding BNPL, DCC, tokenization, and POS coverage. Its embedded finance angle centres on white-label payment infrastructure for platforms and marketplaces, illustrated by the Mangopay partnership and its 'Platforms' product tier.
Paybyrd discloses Mangopay as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Paybyrd does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Mangopay.
Paybyrd processes payments through Paybyrd Payments (self-operated) and Mangopay.
Paybyrd's lending and capital products are provided by Floa and Klarna.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Paybyrd's stack: Payments / PSP (Paybyrd Payments (self-operated) and Mangopay); Banking / BaaS (Mangopay); Lending (Floa, Klarna, Floa BNPL — Pay in 3 (FLOA3X), Floa BNPL — Pay in 4 (FLOA4X) and 4 others).
Paybyrd is founded in 2018 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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