Checkout.com in strategic technology collaboration with Microsoft

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments provider, has announced a strategic technology collaboration with Microsoft.

As part of the multi-year technology agreement, Checkout.com will adopt Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure to accelerate digital payments performance for its enterprise merchants.

This new alliance underpins both companies’ shared commitment to accelerating innovation in the payments sector – and building trust in the digital economy.

By using Azure’s enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, Checkout.com will deliver faster, more secure and scalable digital payments to mutual customers and merchants worldwide.

Mutual customers will benefit from relentless innovation, in a trusted and secure manner. The strategic move enables Checkout.com to continue to scale as a financial technology innovator, serving brands including eBay, ASOS, Vinted, Pinterest and Klarna.

With Checkout.com’s AI-powered engine learning in real-time, every successful payment optimisation is instantly available to all merchants using Intelligent Acceptance, meaning everyone benefits from the power of the network to improve acceptance rates, lower costs, and unlock revenue.

‘Embedding trust’

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft and adopt Azure, bringing this mission-critical platform into our technology stack,” said Mariano Albera, Chief Technology Officer, Checkout.com.

“The Azure platform has leading machine learning capabilities – and Microsoft has long been a pioneer of embedding trust into every layer of cloud innovation so that organizations can build, run and scale critical workloads with absolute confidence.

“Our combined commitment to relentless innovation sets merchants up for success, enabling them to thrive. And beyond the here-and-now – enabling them to explore and embrace the agentic commerce models where AI agents search and shop on behalf of consumers.”

Tyler Pichach, Global Head of Payments, Microsoft Financial Services, said: “The payments industry is a constant source of AI-powered innovation, and by collaborating and co-innovating with Microsoft, Checkout.com will be able to further enhance payment performance for merchants around the world.

“We are proud to be working with a successful, high-growth UK-born fintech to scale even faster, across the globe.”