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Ingenico

Terminal manufacturer

FranceFounded 1980Manufactures in-house

Revenue: €3.4bn(2019) · as of 2019
Employees: 3,000+employees across 32 countries (company statement, 10 February 2026)
Headquarters: Suresnes, France
Website: ingenico.com

What it does

Terminal maker selling to banks, acquirers, PSPs and large retail chains rather than signing merchants itself, with the installed base mid-transition from Telium and Tetra to the Android AXIUM range.

Ownership

Owned by: Apollo Global Management

Terminals under its own name · 40

Builds for others · 2

Deals

Feb 2022·acquired by Apollo Global Management — Worldline divested its TSS (Terminals, Solutions & Services, the former Ingenico) business unit to Apollo
Oct 2020·sold Visma — Visma bought Paybyway Oy, the Lappeenranta online payment facilitator behind the Bambora Payform service, from Bambora AB, which Ingenico Group had owned since 2017. Visma Pay's own company history (https://www.vismapay.fi/yritys) records the sale: "Visma ostaa yrityksen Bambora AB:lta ja verkkomaksupalvelun nimeksi annetaan Visma Pay". Payform was renamed Visma Pay, and the company took the name Visma Payments Oy in 2021.
Feb 2020·acquired by Worldline — terminals + acquiring combination
May 2018·acquired Payone — Ingenico announced negotiations in May 2018 and signed in July 2018 to merge BS PAYONE with Ingenico Payment Services GmbH in a non-cash deal giving Ingenico control of 52%; it closed in January 2019. The joint venture had about 330,000 acceptance points and €125bn annual volume.
Jan 2018·acquired Paymark — Ingenico bought 100% of New Zealand's national card-switching network from its four bank owners, ANZ New Zealand, ASB, BNZ and Westpac, with revised long-term services agreements with each taking effect at completion
Jul 2017·acquired Bambora — Ingenico bought the Nordic online and small-business acquirer Bambora from Nordic Capital for €1.5B, targeting €30M of run-rate synergies over three years. It was the terminal maker's biggest step into payment services.
Jul 2014·acquired GlobalCollect — Ingenico entered exclusive negotiations in July 2014 to buy 100% of the Dutch online PSP GlobalCollect for an enterprise value of €820M and closed on 30 September 2014. The deal gave Ingenico cross-border eCommerce acquiring connections alongside its terminal business.

Developments

17deployments at tracked providers

Where its hardware runs

5tracked executives

Who runs it

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