- CEO
- Bernardo Mingrone
- Full Time Employees
- 8,609
- Sector
- Technology
- Industry
- Software - Infrastructure
- Address
- Corso Sempione 55 Milan MI Italy 20149
- IPO Date
- Feb 19, 2020
- Business
- Nexi S.p.A. is a leading European paytech company that provides digital payment services and infrastructure to banks, merchants, small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, institutions, and public administrations. Founded in 1939 as Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane and renamed Nexi in 2017, the Milan-headquartered group operates across more than 25 countries primarily in Europe, including Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Nordics, Central Europe, and emerging markets like Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, and Greece; it delivers merchant services and solutions such as point-of-sale terminals, acquiring processing, ecommerce gateways, Tap to Pay on iPhone, SoftPOS, and value-added services including BNPL via partnerships like Klarna, WeChat Pay acceptance, and tourism analytics; cards and digital payments encompassing issuing, management, and processing of credit, debit, prepaid, and contactless cards, smartphone/wearable payments, Bancomat Pay, instant SEPA, ACH, money transfers, and digital wallets like wero/EPI; as well as digital banking solutions featuring electronic invoicing, bill payments, ATM management, clearing and settlement, current account management, open banking, and integrated software platforms like NOVA with Engineering Group. Recent developments include strategic partnerships in 2025 with Visa and Mastercard for business money transfers, CBI and EBA CLEARING for request-to-pay with public administrations, ECB via Giesecke+Devrient for digital euro offline prototypes, Reserve Bank of New Zealand for RTGS upgrades, AIB/Bank of Ireland/PTSB for Zippay P2P in Ireland launching 2026, Crédit Agricole Italia extending to 2029 covering 3 million cards and 100,000 POS, Planet for hospitality payments, and WeChat Pay for Swiss merchants; merchant book acquisitions like Sparkasse in 2024; rebranding of Concardis/Nets entities to Nexi in key markets; launches of Nexi Central Europe operations and Nexi Digital Finland; a €220 million EIB financing for innovation; Tap to Pay expansions; and sustained revenue growth with margin expansion as confirmed in H1 2025 results.