[Industry Spotlight] Nuvei: one integration, every market

The Paypers shines an industry spotlight on Nuvei,  emphasising on its payment capabilities that cover all verticals and discusses success partnership stories.

In a world where customers expect commerce to be borderless, friction in payments is one of the last remaining frontiers to true global scale. Consumers want to pay the way they prefer — whether via card, wallet, bank transfer, QR, or local payment methods — in their local currency, with fast approvals and minimal friction. Meanwhile, businesses scaling globally often wrestle with fragmented payment methods, regulatory requirements, acquiring relationships, fraud risk, and reconciliation hassles.  

Many payment providers play in narrow lanes, usually either excelling in a few markets or specialising in a handful of niche verticals. But today’s businesses need more. They need a high-performance payments engine that combines global scale with local precision, all through a single integration. That’s what Nuvei delivers: one platform for every payment, everywhere.  

The infrastructure for every payment, everywhere 

Nuvei is a global orchestrator with excellent local expertise that helps brands in various verticals scale and drive revenue growth. The company announced a new partnership with technology and software developer giant, Microsoft. The collaboration aimed to deliver advanced payment experiences for customers of Microsoft’s products, solutions, and services across multiple key markets. Nuvei’s agile payments technology was set to enhance Microsoft’s checkout experience and open new revenue streams for its customers. 

Nuvei’s journey represents a new payments paradigm and its partnerships with software, travel, or food leaders such as Microsoft, WeCook, and Virgin Atlantic are emblematic.

Moreover, in August 2025, Nuvei also partnered with the iconic jeweller in Greater China, Chow Sang Sang Holdings International Limited. The jeweller aimed for international growth, starting its expansion in North America, and chose Nuvei as their main payment platform. Nuvei recently obtained a Money Services Operator (MSO) license in Hong Kong, which allows it to offer local acquiring and settlement services. Currently, Nuvei offers local acquiring in 50 markets and supports over 150 currencies. 

Trevor Tay, SVP of Global Expansion at Nuvei explains: ‘payments infrastructure, payment preferences, and payment methods vary greatly by country. So, you need a trusted global partner like Nuvei that has deep local expertise to help merchants navigate the various payment options available to optimise the return on investment and the conversion rates that they seek’. 

Nuvei distinguishes itself from other companies by building direct acquiring in markets such as Canada, Japan, or Colombia, which helps partners benefit from lower costs, more consistent performance, faster settlement, and regulatory leverage. With the wide array of alternative and local payment methods integrated, Nuvei’s clients can also leverage a modular architecture where customers can pick and tune which methods and routing to deploy per market, further optimising the payment process and increasing conversion rates.  

Strong partnerships with tech and luxury companies such as Microsoft and Chow Sang Sang demonstrate Nuvei’s capability in software, subscription, platforms, consumer, and enterprise. Its integrations and support for diverse clients (including marketplaces, hospitality, and B2B) show that it can flexibly serve both mainstream and complex industries, bringing similar capabilities and high personalisation.  

Nuvei offers one unified platform across payments, payouts, risk, reconciliation, and data backed by a global proprietary clearing infrastructure, which sets the company apart from its competitors. 

A match made in payments heaven: Nuvei and Microsoft 

Microsoft, a global, diversified, high-tech enterprise chose Nuvei for mission-critical payments across emerging markets, validating the company’s strong dedication to solve real-time payment failures, optimise performance, and keep customers safe during every step of the payments journey. Currently, Microsoft is using Nuvei’s global platform to support both B2C and B2B use cases, adjusted to regional requirements, creating the premises for a global-level partnership. 

Microsoft’s expansion into emerging markets, including Africa, came with both new opportunities and challenges. The company required a partner with strong regional expertise and new technologies to scale that can navigate market complexities such as acquiring local licensing, infrastructure gaps, and fragmented consumer preferences in terms of payments.  

The Microsoft use case shows how Nuvei can serve mainstream technology (software, gaming, and enterprise) with high volume, recurring billing, subscription, or one-time purchases. It also supports over 720 alternative and local payment methods (APMs), through which Microsoft can offer the right local payment options to its customers under a single integration. 

Microsoft benefits from Nuvei’s local acquiring relationships to boost authorisation rates and reduce false declines. Moreover, its advanced risk tools are tailored to the specific needs of Microsoft customers, especially in markets with higher fraud risks and volatile customer behaviour. Speaking about the partnership, Myladie Stoumbou, Senior Regional Director, Partner Development at Microsoft mentioned: ‘Nuvei are one of the best in latency and technology, offering amazing service levels to their customers. That gives us a great foundation to move and expand to new markets in the near future’.

The outcome of the lucrative partnership highlights Microsoft’s smooth expansion into South Africa, with strong issuer collaboration that enables uninterrupted customer service and provides consistently high authorisation rates.

Services and capabilities spotlighted in practice 

As a licensed acquirer operating in over 200 markets, Nuvei is helping Microsoft to:

• Localise payments: offering lower, local IC rates by processing in local currencies, reducing friction across markets;
• Optimise performance: navigating a rigorous vetting process, Nuvei passed latency and approval rate benchmarks with flying colours;
• Enhance resilience: from pre-emptively contacting issuers to solving real-time payment failures, Nuvei acted as a true extension of Microsoft’s team.

A payment partner built for global scale with local precision 

Nuvei is redefining what businesses expect from a payment partner. Global brands like Microsoft, WeCook, and Virgin Atlantic rely on Nuvei not just for reliability, but for high-performance execution in some of the world’s most complex and dynamic markets. From self-ordering platforms and entertainment brands to remittance and digital commerce, leading enterprises choose Nuvei to support scalable growth across regions and verticals.

With continued expansion into acquiring markets like Canada, Nuvei doesn’t fit the mold of a niche provider. It is a global payments engine built for scale, trusted to deliver every payment, everywhere.

For multinational businesses entering new markets or platforms embedding payments into their ecosystems, Nuvei offers a bold, differentiated proposition: one integration, global scale, deep local expertise, and a track record of execution.

Not just a payments provider but a true partner for global growth.

With Nuvei, merchants can stay assured their payments move fast, secure, and ready for every sale, everywhere. Learn how Nuvei powers this year’s Black Friday season here.

 

About Irina Ionescu 

Irina is a Senior Editor at The Paypers, primarily specialising in online payments and fraud prevention. She has a Ph.D. in Economics and a strong economic academic background, with interests in fraud prevention, chargebacks, fintech, ecommerce, and online payments. Reach out to her via LinkedIn or email at irina@thepaypers.com.