“Can a gaming-specific merchant of record become the embedded financial OS for the entire video-game creator economy — payments, payouts, wallets, cards, BNPL, and tax — at every layer of the stack?”
Founded 2005 in Perm as 2Pay, Xsolla relocated to LA in 2010 and rebranded a year later to become a gaming-specific commerce platform centered on its Pay Station merchant-of-record product. Since 2024 the company has been layering embedded finance on top of payments — launching Xsolla Wallet, the Xsolla Money Account with a Xsolla Cash Mastercard for creators, and in 2025 launching a Payment Service Provider model in partnership with Adyen so studios can be their own MoR. The strategic shift is from being THE merchant of record to also being the infrastructure layer behind studios who want to own merchant economics themselves.
Xsolla discloses Xsolla Money Account (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Xsolla does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Xsolla Money Account (in-house).
Xsolla processes payments through Xsolla Pay Station (self-operated MoR), Xsolla Payment Service Provider (powered by Adyen) and Adyen.
Xsolla's cards are issued through Mastercard (network) — Xsolla Cash Mastercard.
Xsolla's lending and capital products are provided by Affirm.
Xsolla runs its ledger on unknown.
Xsolla uses Xsolla (in-house, supports 160+ currencies / 200+ markets) for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 7 layers in Xsolla's stack: Payments / PSP (Xsolla Pay Station (self-operated MoR), Xsolla Payment Service Provider (powered by Adyen) and Adyen); Banking / BaaS (Xsolla Money Account (in-house)); Card issuing (Mastercard (network) — Xsolla Cash Mastercard); Ledger (unknown); Lending (Affirm, Affirm BNPL at game checkout (US/CA, expanding to UK) and Paidy BNPL at game checkout (Japan)); FX & payouts (Xsolla (in-house, supports 160+ currencies / 200+ markets)); Tax (Xsolla Tax Management (in-house, as MoR)).
Xsolla was founded by Aleksandr Agapitov and is founded in 2005, headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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