Vinted Pay
“Can a European C2C marketplace internalise enough of its payment stack — via its own EMI and wallet — while keeping a long-term acquiring partner, to capture float economics without taking on full BaaS overhead?”
Vinted launched in 2008 as a Lithuanian C2C second-hand fashion marketplace and scaled across Europe with Mangopay handling wallet, payment processing, and payouts. In 2023 the company obtained its own EMI licence in Lithuania and stood up Vinted Pay as an in-house payment business, signalling a deliberate shift from pure outsourcing to a hybrid model — operating its own regulated wallet while still using Mangopay rails underneath. The 2026 UK EMI authorisation and renewed Mangopay deal codify that two-layer architecture: Vinted Pay holds the customer-facing money relationship; Mangopay continues to provide marketplace acquiring and multi-currency payouts.