Clear2Pay, a Belgium-based global technology provider of payment solutions for financial institutions, has acquired Ereon, the Dutch payments consultancy firm.
The Ereon team, primarily active in the Dutch market, will add expertise on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and PSD front, as well as sourcing issues, market entry models, governance and trade finance. It reports that from this expertise both the product specialists and developers, as well as customer facing staff such as pre-sales and project management will benefit and vice versa.
Michel Akkermans, Chairman and CEO at Clear2Pay, said: “We are delighted to be able to add the Ereon professionals to our team. We share the same vision about the future of our industry, and like ourselves they have a unique focus on the payments and transaction services space, where we share a number of customers.”
Gaston Aussems, Co-founder and Partner at Ereon, said: “We see that payments have moved very fast from a national to a global issue with consistent revenue opportunities, even at this moment in time. However, as an industry, we face some huge issues with regards to new regulations, migration of existing platforms and M&A activity, but also opportunities in the sense of new technology. Working within a team which sits at the heart of these developments with some very exciting projects at present, not only in Europe, but around the world, gives us a solid footing for the second phase of our company. As such we are very pleased to grow and share our expertise within the Clear2Pay framework”.
