The Payments Group Holding – Update on the Closing of the Acquisition of The Payments Group

EQS-News: The Payments Group Holding GmbH & Co. KGaA / Key word(s): Mergers & Acquisitions The Payments Group Holding – Update on the Closing of the Acquisition of The Payments Group 27.10.2025 / 10:17 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. +++ Press release +++

The Payments Group Holding –

Update on the Closing of the Acquisition of The Payments Group

 

Frankfurt/Main, 27 October 2025 – The Payments Group Holding (PGH), a holding company based in Frankfurt am Main that was founded in 2012 and renamed in August 2024, is making further progress towards the still pending closing of its acquisition of the PayTech companies operating under the name The Payments Group (TPG). The management teams of TPG and PGH met for a multi-day event in Malta. At the headquarters of TWBS Ltd. and Calida Financial Ltd., intensive work was carried out on the joint strategic alignment, and the basis was laid for concrete discussions already initiated with interested, financially strong investors. These discussions will be taken up this week. TPG, its shareholders, and PGH are aiming for a swift closing.

The goal of the emerging PayTech group is to realize the vision of the “open banking” scene and to enable end customers as early as 2026 to make seamless, real-time, cross-border and cross-currency payments at millions of points of sale worldwide – with the capability to process cryptocurrencies including stablecoins at every stage of the payment process, i.e. “any coin on any chain”. From a technical perspective, TPG, together with its cooperation partners, is already capable of doing so today, as the team impressively demonstrated at the Malta event – a real-time payment with Monerium EUR stablecoins at an online shop in Vietnam, settled in the local currency with just a few steps on a mobile phone.

With this project, the group addresses the global megatrend towards the use of stablecoins as an efficient, value-stable real-time means of payment, store and transfer of value. In parallel, PGH has advanced its feasibility study, launched at the end of August, for issuing its own stablecoin, and will now first await when the implementation of cryptocurrencies including stablecoins into TPG’s payment processes will take place. Stablecoins combine the value stability of leading currencies such as the US dollar and the euro with the many advantages of digital assets like cryptocurrencies, are currently in high demand worldwide, and are experiencing rapid growth.