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Top 25 Merchant acquiring banks based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 66 merchant acquiring banks headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 4,488 professional contacts across them, including 1,398 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers merchant acquiring banks headquartered in Germany, 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 17, 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 merchant acquiring banks based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 801 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AirPlus provides people-centric corporate payment solutions you can count on.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 739 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With more than customers and 6 billion processed transactions per year, PAYONE is the leading payment provider in Germany and Austria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 449 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unzer digitalizes commerce with payment and software solutions that cover the entire merchant value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VR Payment is one of Germany's leading payment providers and, as a company of the DZ BANK Group, the only bank-owned full-service provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Computop is the strategic payment partner for large, demanding businesses that require secure, scalable, and cross-channel payment processes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir, die Lynck Solution GmbH mit Sitz in Berlin Steglitz, unterstützen Unternehmen dabei, Zahlungen mit den gängigsten Zahlungsmethoden zu akzeptieren – sowohl im eCommerce als…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das ZahlungsWERK ist der Spezialist für das Thema Zahlungsverkehr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “micropayment - professional payment from one source!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Better Payment Germany GmbH offers extensive online payment solutions for merchants of all sizes, from small businesses to corporate clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bezahlexperten: Nicht umsonst haben wir uns diesen Namen gegeben.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Compay GmbH ist eine Tochtergesellschaft der Ideawise Limited Group und fungiert ausschließlich als 100-prozentiger Zahlungsabwickler für den Konzern.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als einer der führenden, unabhängigen Anbieter für elektr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “abilita ist ein Fintech Unternehmen und bietet Onlinehändlern ein Rundum-Sorglos-Paket entlang der gesamtem finanziellen Wertschöpfungskette.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FINEST executives have acquired expertise in all facets of global payment processing, merchant acquiring and risk management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “POS-cashservice – Ihr Partner für sichere Kartenzahlung und Payment-Lösungen Als führender Anbieter von Zahlungslösungen für stationären Handel, Gastronomie und E-Commerce bieten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We understand that for businesses, payments are an absolute cornerstone of success and growth but also play a vital role for efficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vert bietet Lösungen für bargeldlose Zahlungen direkt vor Ort.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PAYPROCESS ist Ihr Spezialdienstleister rund um Kartenzahlung und eCommerce für Ihr Geschäft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Future-Payments GmbH, Ihr Spezialisten für EC-Terminals zur Akzeptanz von Kreditkarten und Debitkarten.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lyra Network - Alles rund um die Bezahlung Die Lyra Network Group zählt zu den international führenden technischen Zahlungsanbietern in den Bereichen POS Terminals und im E- &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deutsche Payment A1M SE is - Global Payment Provider - One-stop shop solution (Asset-light solution for E-commerce)- Payments on demand (so-called Uberization in payments)-…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir sind THE PAYMEN!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Kadner Solutions GmbH besitzt Kernkompetenzen im Zahlungsverkehr und der damit verbundenen Entwicklung und Optimierung verschiedenster Paymentlösungen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: merchant acquiring banks. 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 merchant acquiring banks.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of merchant acquiring banks, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name merchant acquiring banks. 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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Merchant acquiring banks based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 66 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 merchant acquiring banks, 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 Germany whose own description of what they do matches “merchant acquiring banks”. 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 merchant acquiring banks), 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 merchant acquiring banks, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany 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, 1,398 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 17, 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 merchant acquiring banks, 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 merchant acquiring banks are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 66 merchant acquiring banks headquartered in Germany 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?
Airplus, headquartered in Neu-Isenburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most merchant acquiring banks?
Berlin leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Munchen (4) and Frankfurt (3).
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 1,398 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 66 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 17, 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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