Embedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 280 companies across 10 categories.
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Founded 2006 by veterans of Bibit (an earlier Dutch payments business sold to RBS) as a unified global acquirer/PSP for enterprises — explicitly built to replace the patchwork of regional banks/processors merchants had to stitch together. Launched Adyen for Platforms in 2016, pivoting from pure enterprise PSP toward becoming the embedded-finance backbone for marketplaces and SaaS platforms. Obtained a Dutch banking license in 2017 and US/UK/EU licenses thereafter, then layered Issuing (2019), business Accounts, and Capital on top — the strategic bet is that operating its own bank and acquiring stack lets it compress acquiring+issuing+banking into a single rail no competitor (Stripe included) can fully replicate without third-party sponsor banks.
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<img src="https://www.embeddedfinanceindex.com/api/badge/adyen/install" width="1" height="1" alt="" style="display:none">280 companies disclose Adyen in their stack in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, including pathway, Specter, HelloFresh, Booking Holdings, Bilt, Wise, Zenoti, Ebay transaction, Flow, Lightspeed and 2 others.
Adyen is an embedded-finance provider in PSP, FX / Payouts, BaaS, Card Issuing, Spend / AP, Tokenization, KYC, Open Banking and 2 others. It ranks #2 of 537 PSP providers by disclosed buyers.
Yes. Adyen trades as AMS:ADYEN, listed since 2018.
The most-disclosed PSP alternatives to Adyen are Stripe (777 buyers), PayPal (152 buyers), Checkout.com (113 buyers), Worldpay (89 buyers), mollie (62 buyers) and Braintree (56 buyers).
Adyen was founded by Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff and is founded in 2006, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Adyen has raised ~$266M (pre-IPO) in total.
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