• Checkout.com will use advanced AI-powered payment technologies to improve payment performance, reliability, and increase acceptance rates.
• The collaboration includes digital payments across Microsoft's main products, including Xbox , Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

Dubai, UAE – Checkout.com , a leading global provider of digital payment solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to process digital payments for several of its key products in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa ( EMEA ) region. Under this partnership, Checkout.com will provide card payment acceptance services for a wide range of Microsoft business units, including Xbox , Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure .

Microsoft is one of the world’s leading technology companies, with a mission to empower every person and organization on Earth to achieve more. Its products are woven into the fabric of everyday digital life – from the apps users build on Azure , to the documents they publish on Microsoft 365, to the games they enjoy on Xbox . These services form a crucial part of the cloud infrastructure and software that underpins much of the global digital economy. Ensuring fast and reliable access to these experiences makes a high-performance payments infrastructure essential.

This collaboration gives Microsoft access to Checkout.com 's digital payments platform, which was chosen for the performance, scalability, and flexibility required by a company operating on a massive global scale. By directly connecting to Microsoft 's Payments API , checkout.com enables the company to route payments through a unified and adaptable system, ensuring a consistent, reliable, and high-quality payment experience for millions of consumers and businesses worldwide.

Microsoft will leverage Checkout.com ’s digital acceptance services to process its payments in the EMEA region. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will also utilize Intelligent Acceptance , Checkout.com ’s AI-powered optimization engine, which uses real-time data from its global network to intelligently route transactions, reduce failures, and improve performance. Intelligent Acceptance has helped unlock more than $20 billion in merchant revenue, running 26,000 optimizations per minute, supporting enhanced transaction authorization performance and delivering a better payment experience for customers.

“ Microsoft has always been at the forefront of every major technology transformation – from the rise of personal computing to cloud computing, and now artificial intelligence,” said Guillaume Bosaz, CEO and founder of Checkout.com . “Supporting a company with this depth of heritage and forward-looking momentum requires a payments infrastructure that is flexible, adaptable, and designed for continuous innovation. This is a testament to the performance and resilience our platform provides, and we are proud to play a part in powering the commerce layer behind the technologies that millions rely on every day.”

“As a global company, we need payment partners who can support our business segments in a unified, high-performance way to accept payments worldwide,” said Pankaj Gudimilla, General Manager of Treasury at Microsoft . “ Checkout.com offers a modern payments platform, along with strong expertise and robust global digital acceptance capabilities in payments. Their technology supports the performance and reliability we need as we continue to enhance the commerce experience across Microsoft products and services.”

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About Checkout.com​

Checkout.com processes payments for thousands of businesses that make up the digital economy worldwide. Its global digital payments network supports over 145 currencies and provides high-performance payment solutions globally, processing billions of transactions annually. By 2025, the company's total processed electronic payments exceeded $300 billion.

Through its flexible and scalable technology, Checkout.com helps merchants and organizations increase acceptance rates, combat fraud, and transform payments into a key revenue driver. Headquartered in London, the company has 19 offices worldwide. Its client list includes a host of global and regional brands such as Uber, Instashop, eBay, Bootem, Tamara, Dyson, Sony, Shein, Club, Majid Al Futtaim, Alshaya Group, Netflix, and HungerStation.

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