Visa and Fiserv expand partnership to simplify payment acceptance across Europe

Source: Grayling

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, and Fiserv, a global leader in payments and financial technology, announced an expansion of their long-standing partnership to deliver the Visa Acceptance Platform within Fiserv’s merchant acquiring and processing solutions across Europe.

The collaboration introduces a unified, API-driven acceptance layer designed to simplify integration for acquirers while helping merchants improve authorisation rates, reduce fraud and deliver seamless customer experiences. 

The expanded partnership builds on years of joint innovation across payments, acceptance and AI-enabled services. By combining Visa’s front-end authorisation capabilities with Fiserv’s acquiring and processing stack, the companies are delivering a cloud-based acceptance infrastructure that supports intelligent routing, enhanced data and embedded value-added services.

“This partnership with Visa marks a significant advancement in delivering value to our clients,” said Paul Adams, senior vice president, head of merchant product EMEA at Fiserv.

“By embedding the Visa Acceptance Platform into our merchant acquiring and processing solutions, we simplify payment acceptance, enhance digital capabilities and accelerate time to market for acquirers and merchants across the region.”

Dan Parsons, head of acceptance sales at Visa Europe, said: “I’m really excited about the evolution of our partnership with Fiserv. Together, we are giving acquirers a simpler operating model that helps improve authorisation rates and reduces fraud and chargebacks. For merchants, that translates into richer data and higher approval rates, making it easier to deliver the new experiences their customers now expect – whether that’s shopping online, in store or tapping to travel – with speed and confidence.”

Through the partnership, acquirers will be able to access Visa’s leading acceptance services through a single, API-first integration embedded within Fiserv’s acquiring environment, reducing the need for multiple connections and bespoke development while enabling greater scale and flexibility across markets.

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