Aera Payment & Identification acquires Digiteal to create a major European Fintech

On April 10th 2024, Aera Payment & Identification and Digiteal united forces to redefine the European Fintech Landscape

We are pleased to announce that Digiteal was successfully acquired by Aera, a leading Norwegian Fintech. This strategic union marks a significant milestone for both companies, reinforcing their commitment to innovation and growth in the ever-evolving European fintech landscape. The synergies between our respective solutions will enable our existing and future customers to benefit from a wider offering.

About Aera & Digiteal

Aera, a company founded by merchants – for merchants, was established to deliver unique payment and ID solutions supporting excellent customer journeys and effective management while ensuring predictability, control and influence in a dynamic payments’ environment. Payments and ID solutions are core building blocks for merchants to ensure control of their own customer journeys, data and costs.

As an authorized Payment Institution and a strong believer in European standards, Digiteal offers easy-to-integrate solutions that cover all needs for e-invoice presentment (Peppol), electronic payments and open banking. Through their billing or accounting softwares, CRM, ERP, IT integrators or Document Service Providers (DSP), hundreds of private & public entities benefit from Digiteal’s added value.

Our customers are our first priority

You are a customer of Digiteal’s and are wondering whether this will change anything for you? Rest assured, not only will it have no impact on the services we provide today, but in the coming months you will be able to benefit from a wider range of financial products!

Both companies’ legal entities remain unchanged, as do their respective purposes, each brand having its own positioning and specializations.
Over the coming months, we will be working closely together to better understand customer needs and tailor the product portfolio to provide a better match for the challenges you face.

By combining Aera’s expertise in payment and ID services with Digiteal’s cutting-edge technologies and skilled team, we aim to revolutionize the payments industry and set new benchmarks for excellence.

Øyvind Apelland, CEO of Aera

“We are thrilled to welcome Digiteal into the Aera family. This acquisition aligns perfectly with our strategic vision and reaffirms our commitment to driving innovation in the financial services market and to support our merchants and customers.

The acquisition will also combine the strong competencies and cultures of the two organisations, to provide an even stronger value proposition to merchants and set the basis for future growth in Europe.”

Cedric Neve, CEO of Digiteal

“Our mission in Digiteal is to help businesses get paid faster, more regularly and at a lower cost. As such, this mission is greatly merchant-oriented. By joining Aera, owned by merchants, we accelerate the realization of this objective together with colleagues having a similar mission. Their focus on retail and our ability to deliver on all the other verticals makes it a perfect match.

With Aera, we aim to improve the competitiveness of European businesses through automation reducing manual processing (e-invoicing, APIs), enhancing the customer experience (faster checkout, biometric customer identification, integrated loyalty) and reduced costs through the deployment of innovative integrated payment solutions. Joining forces will accelerate our journey to become a digital champion and enable the creation of a Digital Single Market in Europe.”