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Adyen is a Dutch publicly traded payments company offering a unified platform for merchants to accept, process and manage global payments.
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Eurozone businesses must accept the digital euro by 2029, a free payment option aimed at the 47% of card payment value that Visa and Mastercard process. Adyen, a pilot member, says merchant demand is still thin, so the networks are likelier to feel it in their fees before their share.
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Adyen's 2026 fraud report, built on $1.6 trillion in payments, found about half of surveyed merchants saw more good orders wrongly declined. Those lost sales rarely reach the dashboards where fraud teams track chargebacks, so the cost of caution goes largely uncounted.
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