Raiffeisen Bank International & Computop to support omnichannel payments in Eastern Europe

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Global payment processor Computop and Raiffeisen Bank International have announced their collaboration to encourage and support the expansion of omnichannel payments. The partnership is expected to enable merchants connected to the Computop Paygate payment platform to gain access to local acquiring connections in thirteen CEE countries and in Austria.

“The partnership with Raiffeisen Bank International occupies a special position in our portfolio of over 60 acquirer connections,” explains Computop CEO Stephan Kück. “It enables us to facilitate local acquiring in a region which offers great potential. The position of trust of a major Austrian bank, many years of experience and good knowledge of local markets are three essential assets for our customers to become more involved in Eastern Europe.”

Computop and RBI are enabling merchants and service providers to expand their businesses into Eastern European countries. They will be supported with a payment platform and central credit card acceptance through RBI’s regional network. This applies to both traditional retailers and e-commerce merchants and to any company that sells goods using an omnichannel strategy.

Andrii Stepanenko, Raiffeisen Bank International board member for retail banking, said, “For us the partnership with Computop is an ideal combination which strengthens our core competence in the Eastern European market with customers of the leading payment service provider in German e-commerce. Together we can promote the networking of channels towards genuine omnichannel business in this region too.”

According to the Bank, merchants can now take advantage of opportunities to sell to customers in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.