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2014
Founded in Stockholm
€50B+
Volume processed (2025)
580+
Employees globally
12,000+
Active merchants
LATEST ANNOUNCEMENTS

Press Releases

Official announcements from Paymentgate.

NEW

Paymentgate Launches Webhooks v2 — Industry-First Sub-20ms Guaranteed Delivery with Replay & Sequencing

Paymentgate today announced the general availability of Webhooks v2, a complete rebuild of its event delivery infrastructure. The new system offers sub-20ms P99 delivery latency, automatic ordered replay with at-least-once guarantees, per-endpoint retry policies, and a real-time delivery log. The launch addresses the single most-requested feature in Paymentgate's history, cited by over 3,400 merchants during the product discovery phase.

"Webhooks are the heartbeat of every integration. We rebuilt ours from the ground up because our merchants deserved more than best-effort delivery. Sub-20ms is not a marketing number — it's what we measure ourselves against every hour."
— Rhea Kalniņa, CTO & Co-founder, Paymentgate
Product Launch Infrastructure Developer Experience
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PRODUCT

Paymentgate Launches Freyja — Next-Generation AI Fraud Engine with Sub-5ms Decisioning

Paymentgate today unveiled Freyja, its next-generation AI-powered fraud and risk engine. Built on transformer-based sequence models trained on over 18 billion transactions, Freyja delivers sub-5ms risk decisions with a 99.3% fraud detection rate while reducing false positives by 62% versus the previous generation. The engine is available to all merchants on Growth and Enterprise plans starting today.

"Freyja doesn't just block fraud — it learns the shape of every business and adapts in real time. This is a step-change for every merchant processing with us."
— Dr. Liisa Häkkilä, VP Fraud & Risk, Paymentgate
AI / ML Fraud Prevention Product Launch
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MILESTONE

Paymentgate Surpasses $1 Billion Processed in a Single Day for the First Time

Paymentgate announced that on October 3, 2025, it processed more than $1 billion in payment volume in a single 24-hour period — a first in the company's seven-year history. The milestone was driven by peak volume from Nordic e-commerce merchants during the autumn sales season, with zero incidents and 100% uptime across all services.

"Processing over a billion dollars in a day is a testament to our infrastructure team and every merchant who trusted us with their business. This is the milestone I'm proudest of."
— Markus Becker, Co-founder & Board Member, Paymentgate
Milestone Volume
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COMPLIANCE

Paymentgate Achieves PCI DSS v4.0 Level 1 Certification and ISO 27001:2022

Paymentgate announced today that it has successfully completed its PCI DSS v4.0 Level 1 certification audit — the highest level of payment card security compliance — and simultaneously renewed its ISO 27001:2022 information security certification. The dual achievement reflects the company's commitment to setting the industry standard for security, especially as it scales toward enterprise customers.

"Security isn't a feature — it's the foundation. These certifications give our merchants and their customers the assurance that their data is in the safest possible hands."
— Björn Sandström, CISO, Paymentgate
Security Compliance
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EXPANSION

Paymentgate Expands to Baltic Region, Opens Tallinn Engineering Hub

Paymentgate has opened its second engineering hub in Tallinn, Estonia, hiring 45 engineers in Q1 2025 with plans to reach 120 by year-end. The Tallinn hub will lead development of the company's open banking and instant SEPA products, taking advantage of Estonia's deep fintech talent pool and its digital-first regulatory environment.

"Estonia has produced more fintech per capita than almost anywhere in Europe. We're proud to plant roots here and build the next chapter of Paymentgate alongside Baltic talent."
— Moonika Tamm, VP Engineering, Paymentgate Tallinn
Expansion Engineering
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MEDIA COVERAGE

What the Press is Saying

Coverage from Nordic, European, and global financial press.

DI
Dagens Industri
Stockholm · Feb 2026

"Paymentgate sätter ny standard för betalningsinfrastruktur i Norden. Med 99,99% drifttid och ett bedrägeriskydd som träffar rätt nio gånger av tio är plattformen det självklara valet för det nordiska tech-ekosystemet."

"Paymentgate sets a new standard for Nordic payment infrastructure. With 99.99% uptime and fraud protection hitting right nine times out of ten, it's the obvious choice for the Nordic tech ecosystem."

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BIT
Breakit.se
Stockholm · Jan 2026

"Paymentgate är det svenska fintech-bolaget som tyst blivit en av Europas viktigaste betalningsinfrastrukturer. Det är Stripes nordiska motpart — men med ett europeiskt regelverks-DNA som konkurrenterna inte kan matcha."

"Paymentgate is the Swedish fintech quietly become one of Europe's most important payment infrastructures — Stripe's Nordic counterpart, with a European regulatory DNA competitors can't match."

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TF
TechFinland
Helsinki · Dec 2025

"Suomen kasvavat SaaS-yritykset löytävät Paymentgaten. Alusta tukee kaikkia Pohjoismaisia maksutapoja ja tarjoaa API:n, joka on huomattavasti selkeämpi kuin kilpailijoiden."

"Finland's growing SaaS companies are discovering Paymentgate — supporting all Nordic payment methods with an API significantly clearer than its competitors."

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WEU
Wired EU
London · Nov 2025

"Europe's payment infrastructure wars are heating up. Paymentgate has quietly become the most trusted name among mid-market SaaS operators who can't afford a payment failure — and their numbers back it up: 99.99% uptime, €50B processed in 2025."

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DN
Dagens Næringsliv
Oslo · Oct 2025

"Paymentgate er det europeiske svaret på Stripe. Norske netthandelsbedrifter rapporterer om betalingsgodkjenningsrater de aldri har sett maken til — og kundeservicen slår alt de har prøvd."

"Paymentgate is Europe's answer to Stripe. Norwegian e-commerce businesses report authorization rates they've never seen — and customer service that beats everything they've tried."

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TCN
TechCrunch Nordic
Stockholm · Sep 2025

"In our annual European payments infrastructure survey, Paymentgate ranked #1 for developer experience, authorization rate performance, and fraud prevention precision. It is, quite simply, the benchmark every other provider is measured against."

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LEADERSHIP

From the Leadership Team

"We founded Paymentgate because we believed European merchants deserved infrastructure that truly understood them — their regulations, their currencies, their payment methods. Now, more than a decade on, processing over €50 billion a year, I still wake up energised by what we're building together."

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Markus Becker
Co-founder & Board Member · Stockholm

"The payments world is evolving faster than at any point in history — PSD3, instant rails, open banking, AI-driven risk decisioning. At Paymentgate, we're not reacting to these shifts. We architected for them years in advance. That is what it means to build infrastructure, not just a product."

R
Rhea Kalniņa
CTO & Co-founder · Stockholm
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About Paymentgate: Founded in October 2014 by Rhea Kalniņa (CTO), Maja Svensson, and Markus Becker in Stockholm, Sweden, Paymentgate is Europe's leading payment infrastructure platform for SaaS companies, marketplaces, and digital merchants. The platform processes over €50 billion annually for 10,000+ businesses across 40 countries, offering payment acceptance, fraud prevention, payouts, subscription billing, and card issuing through a single unified API. Privately funded and founder-led, Paymentgate employs 580+ people across Stockholm, Tallinn, and remote locations throughout Europe.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Industry Recognition

Independent awards recognising excellence in payments infrastructure.

Best Payment Infrastructure
Nordic Fintech Awards 2025
#1 Developer Experience
EU Payments Report 2025
Security Excellence Award
Fintech Security Alliance 2025
Fastest Growing Fintech
Sifted Top 100 Europe 2024
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Maja Lindqvist
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Stockholm, Sweden
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