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Top 25 High risk payment processors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 341 high risk payment processors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,132 professional contacts across them, including 2,434 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers high risk payment processors headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest high risk payment processors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elavon, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Echelon Payment Solutions Group Built by sales partners, for sales partners-merchant by merchant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 299 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Talus is the premier choice for small business payment processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universal Processing was founded in 2003 with a mission to provide clients with open and honest communications, minimal rates and fees, efficient and simple credit card…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission At Merchant Lynx Services, we believe in creating loyal customers by providing exceptional credit and debit card processing services to businesses nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Any time, any place, any payment!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Segpay is a global payment platform, offering custom solutions including payment facilitator, direct merchant accounts and secure online payment gateway services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JOIN OUR TEAM WE ARE ALWAYS SEARCHING FOR TOP TALENT We are a local integrated portfolio of payment processing, risk management, and recovery solutions for merchant organizations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “360 Payments empowers auto shops and businesses to reach their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Payscout is a leading merchant services provider, connecting merchants and consumers via credit, debit, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At American Verification Processing Solutions (AVPS), we specialize in secure, tailored payment processing for high-risk and hard-to-place businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EPX provides merchants accounts and a straight-through, fully integrated, secure payment processing platform, and acts as a payment gateway and acquirer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Who We Are As a Top 50 payment processor, securely handling billions in transaction volume annually, we are committed to providing our partners and merchant customers with secure…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “International Payments Processing (IPP) is a boutique firm that delivers a full suite of payment processing solutions to high-risk small business merchants nationally and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Apruvd we help online businesses maximize their ecommerce revenue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OUR MISSION… At Zen Payments our mission is simple – to be an honest and transparent partner to our merchants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “High Risk" Merchant Accounts Why is it that even though you can be making millions, processing companies call the industry “High Risk”?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paybotic is the cannabis industry’s premier FinTech company, with over a decade of experience creating a full suite of cutting-edge payment processing solutions for the cannabis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RevitPay delivers a unified payments ecosystem built to support complex, growth-focused businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 2015, Flex Payment Solutions has been focused on being your safety net in the ever-changing world of payment processing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Emerchant Authority Team can get you approved today for low-to high risk merchant accounts for B2B, eCommerce, or Retail at reduced rates and fees.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Argyle focuses on small and midsize merchants in high-margin specialty markets requiring more attention, care and monitoring to support processing payments in e-commerce…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Banquest Payment Systems was founded close to 9 years ago and has earned itself a very respectable reputation in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In business since Quality Merchant Services offers superb complete merchant services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With a combined 20 yearss +, EMB is the Nations leading provider of high risk merchant services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: high risk payment processors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names high risk payment processors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of high risk payment processors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name high risk payment processors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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High risk payment processors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 341 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among high risk payment processors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “high risk payment processors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names high risk payment processors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among high risk payment processors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,434 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names high risk payment processors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many high risk payment processors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 341 high risk payment processors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Elavon, headquartered in Atlanta, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most high risk payment processors?
New York leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (14) and Miami (9).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,434 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 341 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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