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Euronet’s epay and Discover® Global Network announce collaboration
Launching in Germany and Greece, the full-service payment provider is now enabling merchants in these countries to accept payments from Discover®, Diners Club International® and its network alliances through a single interface. Additional European countries will follow.
Martinsried (Munich) / 24. March, 2025
epay, the digital payments unit of Euronet (NASDAQ: EEFT), today announced a new agreement with Discover® Global Network to add the global payment network’s cards, including well-known brands such as Diners Club International® and Discover® Card, to its portfolio. This collaboration enables epay’s extensive network of retail partners to offer additional attractive payment methods to its end customers, both in-store and in e-commerce, and to attract new customer groups from 345 million¹ private and corporate cardholders in the Discover® Global Network.
“With this collaboration, we are expanding our diverse payment portfolio to include the large Discover® Global Network. In addition to our existing national and international credit and debit cards, QR payment methods, e-wallets, lifestyle, and super apps with several billion users, we can now offer merchants further popular payment methods through just a single interface, as usual,”
Michael Rupp,
Director of Payment at epay Germany.
“Together with epay we will provide cardmembers a fast, safe, and convenient payment experience. The initiative, which has already been launched in Greece and Germany, will further strengthen Discover Global Network’s presence in Europe with additional countries to follow,”
Rajiv Gupta,
VP International Markets at Discover Global Network.
Discover Global Network includes Discover, issued in the United States, and Diners Club International, which is a globally recognized brand with issuers in more than 45 countries². According to the company’s own research, acceptance is important to users of Discover Global Network cards, with 66% of Cardholders** saying that they would visit a merchant again if the preferred payment type was accepted.³ The integration of Discover Global Network into the payment portfolio of the full-service payment provider gives merchants access to further internationally used payment methods from one single source.
Further information about Discover Global Network at epay: Discover® Global Network – epay.de
¹DGN total Cardholders. Based on data provided to Discover by Network Alliances participants and other third-party sources as of December 31, 2023.
²DCI Issuers included in total count have active Network Participation Agreements (NPA) or Sublicense NPAs which authorize them to issue DCI products. Note that some issuers are not actively issuing.
³C+R Research Study of 1,356 Discover Cardholders, November 2023 commissioned by DFS Services LLC
*Discover® Global Network Cardholders living in Brazil, Croatia, Ecuador, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and United States of America who have travelled internationally over the past 36 months.
About epay
epay, a business segment of Euronet (NASDAQ: EEFT), is a leading global provider of payment processing and prepaid products and solutions. The company has built an extensive network of retail contact points in 64 countries, connecting brands with consumers around the world. The company offers a broad portfolio of services, products and solutions that support the distribution of payment, branded payments and mobile for more than 1,000 brand partners via commerce, e-commerce and m-commerce. As an end-to-end solution provider, epay delivers the technology and infrastructure to enable better payment solutions for partners and their customers worldwide. www.epayworldwide.com
epay has been at home in German-speaking countries for over 27 years and is part of transact Elektronische Zahlungssysteme GmbH, a BaFin-licensed payment institution and independent network operator. From its base in the west of Munich, epay offers a worldwide portfolio consisting of gift cards (prepaid, closed-loop system and digital media), corporate incentives and payment solutions (payment card acceptance, payment terminals, e-commerce, mobile and alternative payment and internet of payment) for omnichannel retailing through its own cash register integration software from a single source. www.epay.de
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