Irish fintech Nomupay gets $40 mln investment from SoftBank
Nomupay started operations in 2021 after buying licences from payments company Wirecard, which collapsed a year earlier in Germany's biggest post-war fraud scandal.
Nomupay has since raised $120 million, with the last round of $37 million in January valuing it at $200 million.
"We will integrate the Japanese payment methods that are provided by SoftBank, which means the rest of the world can now access Japan, and then we will jointly expand into other markets," Nomupay CEO Peter Burridge told Reuters.
Nomupay is a payment processor focusing on local and cross-border payments and operates in an industry dominated by the likes of Stripe and Adyen (ADYEN.AS), opens new tab.
"We aim to be profitable by the end of the year," Burridge said.
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