“Can a CEE payment service provider roll up card issuing, cross-border payouts, and embedded finance into a single global B2B platform?”
Qenta is an Austrian-headquartered payment service provider offering QPAY/QMORE/QCALL/QFILE/QTILL checkout solutions to merchants across CEE, alongside an embedded finance offering for branded cards and accounts. The U.S. entity (Qenta Inc., parent: Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. I) has expanded inorganically by acquiring Noble Money (2022), Apto Payments (card issuing platform), and PiPiT Global (2025), positioning itself as a multi-region payments + embedded finance roll-up.
Qenta discloses Qenta (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Qenta does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Qenta (in-house).
Qenta processes payments through QPAY – Checkout Page (self-operated), QMORE – Checkout Seamless (self-operated), QCALL – Checkout Terminal (self-operated), QFILE – Checkout Automated (self-operated), QTILL – Checkout Enterprise (self-operated), QPC Payment Center (self-operated) and Pay by Link (self-operated).
Qenta's cards are issued through Apto Payments (in-house, via acquisition).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Qenta's stack: Payments / PSP (QPAY – Checkout Page (self-operated), QMORE – Checkout Seamless (self-operated), QCALL – Checkout Terminal (self-operated), QFILE – Checkout Automated (self-operated) and 3 others); Banking / BaaS (Qenta (in-house)); Card issuing (Apto Payments (in-house, via acquisition)).
Qenta is headquartered in Graz, Austria.
Qenta has raised $1.4M in total (latest round: Private Equity Round, 2022).
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