What is a payment acquirer and how does it affect your business?

As online retail has grown, particularly following the pandemic-driven surge in 2020, businesses increasingly depend on effective electronic payment systems to support sales, conversions, and customer experience. Payment acquirers, also known as merchant acquirers, are financial institutions that enable businesses to accept cards, digital wallets, and other payment methods, securely process transactions, manage regulatory obligations, and settle customer funds into merchant accounts. They facilitate communication among merchants, payment gateways, card networks, and card issuers, while providing infrastructure for security, fraud monitoring, PCI DSS compliance, and chargeback risk management. Selecting an acquirer involves considering authorisation rates, supported payment methods and local options, international capabilities, integration options, compliance support, and fees such as transaction, interchange, gateway, service, chargeback, and cross-border charges. Newer fintech providers such as Airwallex position themselves alongside established acquirers by combining acquiring, payment processing, global accounts, multi-currency settlement, fraud tools, and integrations with ecommerce and accounting platforms.

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