Aevi, the independent in-person payment orchestration platform, has partnered with Nomupay, a cross-border acquiring and payout provider, to reduce the integration overhead of international commerce for merchants, financial institutions, ISVs and payment providers.
The deal connects Aevi’s cloud-native SmartPOS and orchestration layer with Nomupay’s card acquiring, local alternative payment methods and cross-border payout services. Merchants using either platform will, in theory, be able to enter new markets through a single integration rather than rebuilding acquiring relationships, hardware configurations and regional software stacks for each geography.
The deal
Nomupay joins the Aevi ecosystem as a host connector, a technical role that allows it to extend in-person payment capabilities to its own merchant base while simultaneously serving as an acquiring gateway for Aevi customers moving into Asia-Pacific. Nomupay has existing infrastructure in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, the Philippines and parts of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa region, giving the partnership a plausible claim to Southeast Asian coverage that Aevi describes as depth “few orchestration providers can reach.”
Victor Padee, chief revenue officer at Aevi, said that businesses expanding internationally should not have to rebuild their payment infrastructure every time they enter a new market. Alex Leigh, group director of channels and partnerships at Nomupay, framed the partnership as reducing complexity rather than adding providers, noting that the combined offer allows customers to enter new markets through a single integration with access to local payment methods and payout capabilities.
Neither company disclosed commercial terms, customer numbers, projected transaction volumes or a go-live date for specific markets. Aevi also did not publish third-party evidence for its claim to be the only independent in-person payment orchestrator with this depth of APAC coverage.
Market context
The in-person payment orchestration segment is maturing rapidly. The structural shift Aevi and Nomupay are responding to is real: merchants operating across multiple regions increasingly want to separate the orchestration layer from any single acquiring relationship, replicating in physical commerce the flexibility that gateway-agnostic models have long offered in e-commerce. That separation reduces acquirer lock-in and, in principle, allows merchants to route transactions dynamically for cost or resilience reasons.
The competitive field, however, is not empty. Several established payment processors and specialised orchestration providers are pursuing similar unified commerce models, and the major card networks have invested in tokenisation and routing tools that partially address the same merchant problem. The harder commercial question for Aevi is whether an independent orchestrator can sustain its position as acquirers and processors build or buy equivalent orchestration capabilities directly.
Southeast Asia adds a genuine differentiator to this announcement. The region is characterised by a high density of local payment schemes, including QR-code-based rails and instalment products, that are poorly served by Western acquiring infrastructure. Any provider that can credibly aggregate those methods into a single merchant integration addresses a structural gap. Nomupay’s direct licences and partnerships in the region, if operationally robust, are a tangible asset rather than a marketing claim.
For merchants in retail, fuel, convenience and financial services, the near-term test will be whether the combined integration delivers the promised speed to market, and whether the orchestration layer can handle the reconciliation complexity that comes with mixing card, alternative payment method and payout flows across multiple acquiring relationships and currencies. The partnership’s credibility will be judged on live deployments rather than the announcement itself.
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