2021年6月17日

今天,Volt——领先的开放支付网关,引发了一系列2350万美元基金扩张到新界和构建其全球即时支付足迹。投资,最大的系列开放银行业的记录,由EQT企业。现有投资者Augmentum和燃料企业也参加了,还有几个天使投资人与广泛的支付行业经验和影响力。这些包括:罗伯特牛栏主席(Adyen创始人之一)和加布里埃尔·德·Montessus非执行董事(FIS Worldpay集团总裁)。世界正在经历一场戏剧性转向数字支付;电子商务交易仅在2024年预计将达到6万亿美元。大流行创造了一个支付行业的拐点;面对前所未有的网络需求,商人和psp在重新考量的技术基础设施支撑着他们的业务。同时我们的钱是如何改变。在历史上我们有依赖维萨和万事达作为全球电子商务的支柱,未来是不同的。 At EQT Ventures we believe that account-based instant payments are set to dominate the global payments landscape, because they’re: 1) Faster: payments arrive instantly, no more waiting days or weeks for card processors to pay out. 2) Cheaper: no card or interchange fees (i.e no card acquirers, issuers or schemes involved), resulting in significantly lower transaction costs vs. other payment methods. 3) Safer: payments are authorised by the consumer with their bank, reducing fraud and chargebacks costs. This is no longer a bold prediction, payment giants such as FIS expect account-based instant payments to be their main revenue stream by 2024. There are 58 countries rolling out their instant payment schemes, and across the globe, merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) are prioritising instant payments. Enter Volt, building the global instant payments platform — an orchestration layer that unifies instant schemes around the world to a single point of access. Volt has quietly and rapidly established itself as Europe’s leading open payments gateway. It offers seamless access to Open Banking payments in Europe, connecting over 5,000 banks across the UK and EU, and with this round they will expand further internationally. Their unique operating model removes single point of failure, provides unrivalled reach and smart routing based on performance, conversion and reliability. It also, translates and operationalises the real-time payments infrastructure, creating a highly flexible and scalable solution, and delivering a unified experience for Merchants and Payment Service Providers. In our first call with Tom, Jordan and Steffen we were immediately captivated by the combination of their merchant centricity, deep payments experience and bold global ambitions. They’ve built successful payments start-ups from scratch (IFX), led international expansion for the largest PSPs (Adyen) and recruited some of the world’s leading payment execs (PCN). Raw ingredients that together with their model puts them in a strong position to become the global category winner. With this funding round, Volt will be accelerating its international expansion and product development. We’re incredibly excited and honoured to be joining Tom, Jordan and Steffen in their journey towards building the global instant payments network.