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Nuvei to buy Payoneer in cross-border payments deal

Nuvei to buy Payoneer in cross-border payments deal

Money Moves

Privately held Nuvei agrees to acquire Payoneer for $7.40 a share, about $2.75 billion in cash, five years after Payoneer went public.

Today: Nuvei agrees to buy Payoneer

Overview

Payoneer went public in 2021 at a $3.3 billion valuation. On June 15, 2026, it agreed to sell itself to Nuvei for about $2.75 billion in cash, less than its debut price.

Nuvei, a Montreal payment company that Advent International took private in 2024, is buying a rival that moves money the other way. Nuvei helps merchants accept payments. Payoneer helps freelancers and small exporters get paid across borders. Together they would handle over $500 billion in payments a year.

Why it matters

Millions of freelancers, online sellers, and small exporters in 190-plus countries rely on Payoneer to get paid. New ownership decides what that service costs and how it works.

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Key Indicators

$2.75B
Deal value
All-cash equity value Nuvei agreed to pay for Payoneer.
$7.40
Price per share
Cash offered for each Payoneer share, a premium to its recent trading price.
$3.3B
2021 IPO valuation
Payoneer's value when it went public via a blank-check merger; the sale price is below it.
$500B+
Combined annual payment volume
Payments the merged company expects to process each year.
2.4M+
Combined customers
Businesses served across more than 190 countries and territories.

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Timeline

2005 June 2026

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  1. Nuvei agrees to buy Payoneer

    Today Deal

    Nuvei announces a definitive agreement to acquire Payoneer for $7.40 a share in cash, about $2.75 billion. Both boards approved it unanimously.

  2. Advent takes Nuvei private

    Ownership

    Private equity firm Advent International completes its acquisition of Nuvei at an enterprise value near $6.3 billion.

  3. Payoneer goes public

    Markets

    Payoneer lists on Nasdaq through a merger with a blank-check company at a $3.3 billion valuation.

  4. Payoneer founded

    Origin

    Yuval Tal starts Payoneer in New York to help people get paid across borders without a traditional bank account.

Historical Context

3 moments from history that rhyme with this story — and how they unfolded.

January 2023

Nuvei acquires Paya (2023)

Nuvei bought U.S. payment processor Paya for about $1.3 billion to push deeper into business and government payments. It was one of several deals in Nuvei's growth-by-acquisition playbook.

Then

Nuvei added integrated payments for software platforms and recurring billers in the United States.

Now

The deal showed Nuvei's pattern of buying scale and capabilities rather than building them, the same logic behind the Payoneer purchase.

Why this matters now

It is the clearest recent template for how Nuvei expands and how it tends to absorb the companies it buys.

March 2019

FIS buys Worldpay (2019)

Financial technology firm FIS agreed to buy payment processor Worldpay for about $43 billion, one of the largest payments mergers ever. The wave of deals that year reshaped who controls global payment rails.

Then

FIS gained scale in merchant acceptance and online commerce.

Now

By 2023 FIS sold a majority of Worldpay to private equity at a far lower value, showing how hard these combinations are to make work.

Why this matters now

It is a caution: payments megadeals promise scale, but integrating acceptance and money movement often proves harder and worth less than the press release suggests.

June 2021

Payoneer's SPAC debut (2021)

Payoneer went public by merging with a blank-check company at a $3.3 billion valuation, during a boom in such deals. Its shares later fell well below the debut price.

Then

Payoneer raised cash and gained a public listing without a traditional IPO.

Now

Like many blank-check listings of that era, the stock disappointed, setting up a sale below the original valuation.

Why this matters now

It explains why the $2.75 billion price counts as a discount and why some shareholders may resist the deal.

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