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Beanstream was acquired by Bambora

The Swedish fintech innovator, Bambora Group, announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Beanstream Internet Commerce, Inc. Bambora plans to leverage this new business combination to enter the North American market. Bambora’s ambition is to become a global one-stop-shop with the same unique offer, services and customer experience regardless of where their clients are located. The goal? To become one of the industry’s most innovative and growth-focused payment companies globally.

Entered US Market

"Our customers, especially those with a solution or software that they want to round-out by also facilitating payments, have expressed the importance of ease of use and seamless integration. They want to focus on their business specialties and let us focus on payments. As a result, Beanstream USA uniquely delivers on a single platform that allows U.S. clients to seamlessly expand their business to Canadian markets with less or no integration work, making it easy to go into new regions faster." - Ryan Stewart, Head of Product

Beanstream rebranded to Bambora

If you have been following us over the last seventeen years, you know we had been acquired four times and yet have always retained the Beanstream brand. While the colours have changed over the years, the brand name stayed strong. So why did we decided to retire the Beanstream brand? While there are lots of great reasons, the main one is to signal to our customers that this one is sticking. It took a village (or our entire team in North America!) to make this rebrand happen.

Ingenico Acquisition Announced

This acquisition represents a key milestone in the execution of Ingenico Group’s strategy towards payment services with a disruptive approach and:

• Enriches Ingenico’s customer centric offer with complementary technological skills
• Adds a dedicated direct-to-SMB sales’ channel to the Retail Business Unit
• Leverages Enterprise combined portfolios with end-to-end payment solutions, including online acquiring capabilities in Europe and specific advanced functionalities for cross-border companies globally
• Brings scalable assets with a complementary footprint and increases its online and in-store offer in the Nordics, North America and Australia through the addition of new Gateways

Ingencio Acquisition Closed

From a purely hardware company selling terminals to banks & acquirers, Ingenico Group has, over the past decade, continuously shifted its model towards payment services. Bambora is a key milestone in that strategy. Its integration into our group will enable us to scale up our Retail business, which is key on our path to further improve our position as an undisputable leader of the seamless and omnichannel payment experience,” said Philippe Lazare, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ingenico Group. “The whole group joins me in warmly welcoming all the employees of Bambora and I look forward to working closely with them.”

Since October 28, 2020, Bambora has joined Worldline group

Worldline is the largest European player in payment services and the fourth largest player worldwide. Worldline provides its clients with sustainable, trusted and secure solutions across the payment value chain and offers best-in-class payment services ranging from POS, online payments, omnichannel solutions to issuing & acquiring and digital banking to nearly one million merchants and 1,200 banks and financial institutions. With 20,000 employees and powered by the dedication of some of the brightest talents in the payments industry, Worldline is shaping new ways of paying, living and doing business.

Bambora rebrands to Worldline

After joining the Worldline group in October 2020, Bambora has officially transitioned to the new Worldline brand. Worldline’s experience and expertise in the payments industry will help us innovate and enhance our products and technology. Since the company won the world’s first contract for bank card transactions back in 1973, it has been a pioneer in the transformation of payment transactions. Every year Worldline invests more than €300 million in innovation to deepen its partnerships with innovative players from across the global payment ecosystem.