BR-DGE, the breakthrough payment orchestration provider, has today launched ‘How to Keep Your Customers in a Multi-Acquirer World’ – an exclusive whitepaper offering practical insights and advice to merchants and payments providers, centred around the evolved merchant payment acceptance landscape.

The way that businesses handle payments has changed significantly since the days of only offering simple card transactions, with today’s merchants needing to support an array of multiple payment methods, and their payment partners needing to enhance their service offerings if they are to remain competitive.

BR-DGE’s new whitepaper addresses the complexity of the current payments landscape to ensure that merchants, acquirers, PSPs, ISVs and other ecosystem players understand and have a plan for exactly how they can maximise their payments offering for customers. The whitepaper also explores what payment orchestration really is, and why it is quickly becoming a must-have for successful businesses.

Specifically, ‘How to Keep Your Customers in a Multi-Acquirer World’ unveils:

• The benefits and challenges posed by multi-acquirer setups – from better flexibility to fragmented systems and higher costs
• How a payment orchestration platform can simplify payment systems connectivity to help businesses juggle multiple providers with ease
• Perspectives on multi-acquirer environments from industry leaders including:
  • Mastercard
  • PSE Consulting, the payments consultancy
  • Flagship Advisory Partners, a specialised advisory boutique focused on payments and fintech
  • Computop, a payment service provider
• An easy-to-understand guide for businesses looking to stay agile and competitive in the multi-acquirer world
• Practical advice for merchants, acquirers, PSPs and other payment providers covering everything from how to optimise transaction routing to save on costs, to how to scale globally without losing sight of local preferences

Thomas Gillan, CEO of BR-DGE, shared his thoughts on the importance of the whitepaper at this time, saying: “In a complex and often overwhelming multi-acquirer world, merchants are having to tackle the pitfalls of fragmented tech stacks alone and without guidance. At BR-DGE, we’re confident that we have the solution. With this whitepaper, we’re sharing our knowledge and expertise with enterprise-level businesses around the world so that they can unlock transformational strengths and game-changing growth opportunities by leveraging payment orchestration. BR-DGE is proud to consistently delivering best-in-market technology to suit the unique and divergent needs of businesses, wherever they are in the payments value chain.”

The launch of the whitepaper is the latest in a series of wins for BR-DGE, as the company recently revealed strong momentum throughout 2024 following its revenue record of 600% growth in 2023. During 2024, BR-DGE’s total number of clients grew by 75% from 2023, and its total number of partners grew by 25% from 2023. Looking ahead to 2025, BR-DGE is expecting an even stronger year of results and new client wins.

Bringing together over 400 payment technology solutions in one place, BR-DGE works as an independent, trusted and vendor-agnostic partner for the whole ecosystem, creating value and driving better outcomes for payment providers, their merchants and consumers. Founded in Edinburgh in 2018, BR-DGE now processes millions of transactions monthly on behalf of high-volume customers spanning travel, ecommerce, gaming, digital goods and other sectors. With an emerging large order book already in the pipeline, BR-DGE is positioned to become the go-to source and distribution outlet for payments connectivity, routing, and data services.