Corporate payments Companies in Europe

Kyriba is a cloud-native treasury and finance platform that sits at the intersection of corporate finance operations and intelligent automation. Rather than patching together spreadsheets and legacy systems, Kyriba consolidates cash management, liquidity forecasting, and working capital visibility into a single operating system for finance teams. Think of it as the command center for CFOs who are tired of fragmented data and manual workflows. The platform handles everything from multi-currency cash positioning to FX hedging and supply chain financing, all orchestrated through APIs that plug into banks and accounting systems. It's built for mid-market to enterprise companies that move serious money across borders and need to know exactly where every dollar sits at any given moment. Kyriba doesn't try to be a banker or a startup darling—it's an industrial-grade tool that speaks the language of corporate treasurers. In the European treasury space, Kyriba competes with legacy software vendors but with a modern cloud architecture that actually scales. It's the kind of platform that gets adopted quietly but becomes mission-critical once companies realize how much time their finance teams get back. The market for treasury automation remains sticky and consolidating, but Kyriba has built a defensible position by solving the unglamorous but essential work of helping large corporations optimize their balance sheets and reduce financial risk.

Salv is a European treasury and payments platform designed for the modern finance team. Rather than juggling spreadsheets and legacy banking interfaces, Salv consolidates cash visibility, liquidity forecasting, and cross-border payments into a single, intuitive interface. The platform connects directly to a company's bank accounts—whether across Europe or globally—and gives CFOs and controllers real-time insight into cash positions, pending transactions, and upcoming obligations. What sets Salv apart is its focus on simplicity without sacrificing depth. While enterprise treasury software often demands armies of consultants and months of implementation, Salv gets finance teams operational in days. The platform handles multi-currency cash management, automates reconciliation, and streamlines payment execution—all critical functions that most midmarket companies currently manage through error-prone manual processes or expensive legacy systems. In a market dominated by entrenched enterprise players like Kyriba and Treasurit, Salv targets the overlooked middle: growth companies and mid-sized enterprises that have outgrown basic banking but don't need Fortune 500-grade complexity. It's positioned as the cash management tool for teams that want control without the headache, and it reflects a broader European fintech trend toward pragmatic, cloud-native alternatives to traditional treasury solutions. For finance leaders tired of workarounds, Salv represents the kind of infrastructure redesign that turns scattered processes into streamlined workflow.

Andrea Pignataro founded ION in London in 1999, after leaving a trading role at Salomon Brothers with a conviction that the software running global markets was held together with too much manual process. Over the following two and a half decades he built ION into one of the largest, most acquisitive players in capital-markets technology — absorbing dozens of specialist vendors, including Fidessa and Broadway Technology, and folding them into a single group. The core business is still the unglamorous plumbing of institutional finance: trading platforms across equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and cleared derivatives; risk management; post-trade processing; clearing and settlement; and market data. Investment banks, hedge funds, and corporate treasuries run parts of their daily operations on ION's systems, often without their own customers ever knowing it. Less visible is ION's regulatory technology line. Products including ION LookOut and Fidessa Surveillance handle trade surveillance, market-abuse detection, and regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions, and ION's compliance tools have placed in FinTech Global's RegTech 100 list for three consecutive years. It's a smaller part of the business than the trading and post-trade platforms, but a genuine one — which is why ION appears under both Capital Markets and RegTech in this directory, rather than just one. The company is headquartered in London, employs more than 13,000 people across over 50 offices worldwide, and remains privately held under Pignataro's control — a scale most consumer-facing fintechs never approach, built almost entirely on customers who are themselves in finance.

Ebury is a London-based fintech that's quietly become one of Europe's most ambitious cross-border payment platforms for small and mid-sized businesses. Built for founders and finance teams who spend too much time juggling currency conversions, hedging risk, and waiting days for international transfers, Ebury strips away the friction that traditional banks left behind. The platform handles the full spectrum of what mid-market companies actually need: sending money across borders at better rates, managing foreign exchange exposure without needing a treasury team, collecting payments in dozens of currencies, and—increasingly—accessing working capital tied to those flows. It's not a flashy consumer app; it's infrastructure that makes international growth less exhausting. Unlike the volume-chasing payment processors or the idealistic startups that oversimplified cross-border payments, Ebury positioned itself as the pragmatic middle ground. It embedded deep relationships with regional banks while building technology that works at scale. The company has expanded beyond its British roots into major European markets, growing a client base that ranges from e-commerce sellers to manufacturing firms that actually need sophisticated FX management, not just cheaper wires. Ebury represents a maturing fintech category: the infrastructure play that's neither a bank nor a simple API, but rather a new kind of financial operating system for companies doing serious international business.

Tradeshift runs the operating system for global commerce—a cloud platform that lets businesses transact with each other in real time, from purchase orders to invoices to payments. It's built for a world where finance teams spend less time on manual reconciliation and more time on strategy, where supply chain visibility is instant, and where cash flow stops being a guessing game. The company sits at the intersection of procurement, invoice management, and working capital, connecting enterprises with their supplier networks. Rather than forcing companies to adopt yet another SaaS tool, Tradeshift embeds itself into the workflows that already exist—automating the grunt work of B2B commerce that still happens through email, spreadsheets, and PDF attachments. Trodeshift's positioning is distinctly European: it understands the complexity of multi-regional supply chains, VAT compliance, and the regulatory layers that global companies navigate daily. While American fintech still obsesses over consumer-facing dashboards, Tradeshift has spent years building the unglamorous but essential plumbing that keeps enterprise trading flowing. In an era where digital transformation is finally table stakes for large corporates, Tradeshift has become infrastructure—the kind that companies discover they can't function without. It's not the flashiest story in fintech, but it's one of the most resilient.

Additiv is a treasury and cash management platform built for the modern corporate finance team. It sits at the intersection of spreadsheets and enterprise software—companies spend billions managing liquidity across multiple banks, currencies, and counterparties, yet most still rely on fragmented manual processes. Additiv replaces that chaos with a unified workspace where teams can forecast cash flows, manage payments, and monitor FX exposure in real time. The platform connects directly to a company's banking infrastructure, pulling live transaction data and balances across all their accounts. From there, teams can model scenarios, automate routine reconciliation, and execute payments without context-switching between tools. It's designed for finance managers and treasurers who've outgrown spreadsheets but don't want the bloat of legacy treasury systems. In a market dominated by legacy players like Kyriba and FIS, Additiv positions itself as the cloud-native alternative—faster to implement, easier to use, and built for companies that actually want to control their cash position rather than just report on it. The company sits squarely in the corporate finance modernization wave that's reshaping how mid-market and enterprise companies think about liquidity. Unlike niche point solutions, Additiv attempts to be comprehensive enough to replace multiple tools while remaining nimble and intuitive.