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About Acquipayer

Acquipayer is an AI powered FinTech infrastructure platform that intelligently matches merchants with the most suitable acquiring and payment partners. We focus on the businesses that find payments hardest to set up: iGaming, forex, crypto, subscriptions and other models that most providers turn away or review slowly.

Why Acquipayer exists

For a high-risk or complex business, finding a payment provider usually means applying to one provider after another, filling in the same forms, and waiting weeks to learn that your industry, your markets or your volume was never a fit. What each provider accepts is rarely written down publicly.

We built Acquipayer to remove that guesswork. You describe your business once, online, and your profile is matched against what payment providers actually accept: industries, company jurisdictions, customer markets, volume, chargeback history and licences. You spend your time on the provider that fits, not on the ones that never would.

The people behind Acquipayer

Barry Clark

Co-Founder & Director

Barry Clark

Barry is an entrepreneur and business executive with over 35 years of international leadership experience, including 20 years in the payments industry.

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Throughout his career, he has founded, developed and successfully grown businesses across payment processing, merchant acquiring, e-commerce and international commerce.

With extensive expertise in strategic partnerships, acquiring relationships and business development, Barry combines entrepreneurial vision with a deep understanding of the global payments ecosystem.

As Co-Founder and Director of Acquipayer, he brings his commercial expertise and industry knowledge to developing innovative payment solutions and building long-term international partnerships.

barry@acquipayer.com
Christopher Hodgson

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Christopher Hodgson

Chris is an accomplished serial entrepreneur and MBA graduate with extensive experience founding, owning and developing businesses across multiple industries and international markets.

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Trilingual and commercially driven, he brings a wealth of entrepreneurial experience, strategic insight and an international business perspective. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and scalable business models, Chris specialises in identifying market opportunities, developing innovative commercial strategies and building businesses positioned for sustainable growth.

As Co-Founder of Acquipayer, he brings his entrepreneurial vision and AI-driven approach to transforming how businesses access global payment infrastructure.

chris@acquipayer.com
Sophie Schaad

Legal & Compliance Officer

Sophie Schaad

Sophie is an experienced legal and compliance executive with over 15 years of expertise in the financial sector. A law graduate with early experience in legal practice, she has held senior management roles, including Head of Group Compliance and Head of Compliance at Swiss private banking institutions.

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Since 2022, she has broadened her expertise into payment processing, merchant acquisition and international e-commerce.

Combining regulatory leadership, entrepreneurial experience and a practical understanding of the payments industry, Sophie supports Acquipayer's legal and compliance framework, risk governance and international business development.

sophie@acquipayer.com

Engineering

AI powered FinTech

Acquipayer is an AI powered FinTech. The assessment you complete is read by our AI engine: it interprets your business profile and matches it against the acceptance criteria of payment providers and acquirers, the same way an analyst would, in seconds instead of weeks.

The AI does the matching; the decisions stay where they belong. A match means a provider's criteria fit your profile, and the provider always makes its own underwriting decision after its own checks. Nothing is approved, promised or guaranteed on our side.

What we do, and what we don't

What we do

  • Match your business with payment providers and acquirers that accept your profile.
  • Collect your details and documents once, in one online application.
  • Prepare your application so it reaches the provider complete.
  • Support you through onboarding until your account is ready to go live.

What we don't do

  • We are not a payment provider or a bank, and we never hold your funds.
  • We do not decide approval or pricing. The provider does, after its own checks.
  • We do not share your details with a provider until you submit your application.
  • We do not publish which providers we work with or how they assess merchants.

Who we help

Acquipayer works for any online business, but it is built for the ones that standard checkout providers decline: regulated gambling operators, brokers, crypto businesses, subscription and continuity models, and merchants with a difficult processing history.

How we write our guides

Our guides, industry and licence pages explain how payment processing works in practice. They are based on primary sources wherever possible: regulators' directives and guidance, card scheme publications and official licensing documents. Each guide lists the sources it relies on.

We do not name or rank individual payment providers in our content, and no provider pays to appear in it. When rules change, we update the affected pages.

Contact

For help with an application or your account, email support@acquipayer.com.

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See which payment providers fit your business

Add your business details once. We match your profile with providers that accept it and take you through to going live.

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Nothing is shared with a provider until you submit your onboarding pack. Approval is always the provider's decision.