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Viva.com acquires a majority stake in fiskaltrust

Wednesday 19 February 2025 09:38 CET | News

Viva.com, a Greece-based company powering merchant payment acceptance, has announced that it made a strategic investment in fiskaltrust, a fiscalisation compliance company.

Through this move, Viva.com aims to build on its banking offering and launch a new solution in Europe that merges payments, and fiscalisation services for sales invoices and receipts, card issuing, deposits, and loans. The unified infrastructure focuses on bringing together the fragmented payments and tax regulations European landscape, removing operational complexity. Additionally, the solution intends to address the needs of business software vendors, such as ERP, Invoicing, POS, CRM providers, booking, and reserve platforms, and enterprises, assisting them with single-integration plug-ins to augment their transactions and payments management. At the same time, the service intends to scale users’ presence across multiple countries.

Viva.com acquires a majority stake in fiskaltrust

Furthermore, the strategic initiative has until now commenced in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, with Viva.com planning to introduce the solution in more European countries.

The strategic investment in fiskaltrust comes just a few weeks after Viva.com integrated Viva Payments into Viva Bank, one of Viva.com Group’s subsidiaries. The legal merger was set to conclude soon after, followed by the operational merger in March 2025. The strategic move intended to allow Viva.com to scale its service portfolio by delivering loans and deposit accounts safeguarded under the Deposit Guarantee Scheme across Europe.

Viva.com’s development strategy

Integrating payment acceptance with automated, tax-compliant invoicing and recipient is set to allow Viva.com to support businesses in meeting fiscal requirements while optimising efficiency and minimising costs. Also, the solution aligns with the EU’s e-Invoicing Directive (Directive 2014/55/EU), augmenting invoice issuance, payments and VAT reporting, and assisting the EU’s transition to digital tax compliance. By leveraging the service, merchants and partners are set to be able to deploy checkout solutions across European borders without facing additional costs.

Moreover, commenting on the news, representatives from Viva.com mentioned that their company focuses its efforts on becoming a pan-European enabler of payments, credit products, and fiscalisation while addressing the complexities of the continent’s fragmented landscape and mitigating local monopolies that can hinder development. The investment in fiskaltrust further expands Viva.com’s footprint across Europe and assists the company in accelerating its growth plans.


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Keywords: acquisition, product launch, payments , merchants, financial services
Categories: Payments & Commerce
Companies: fiskaltrust, Viva.com
Countries: Europe
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