Microsoft and Checkout.com boost global payments

October 7, 2025

Checkout.com has announced a major strategic technology partnership with Microsoft aimed at transforming enterprise payment performance and strengthening trust across the digital economy.

The multi-year collaboration will see Checkout.com adopt Microsoft Azure’s global cloud infrastructure to enhance the speed, security, and scalability of its payments platform for enterprise merchants.

The partnership combines Checkout.com’s AI-powered payment solutions with Azure’s enterprise-grade cloud capabilities. This collaboration is designed to provide faster and more secure transactions for global merchants.

By leveraging Microsoft Azure’s infrastructure, Checkout.com will enhance its ability to process payments for leading brands such as eBay, ASOS, Vinted, Pinterest, and Klarna.

Checkout.com’s machine-learning-driven Intelligent Acceptance system will further benefit from this integration. The system learns in real time from transaction data, ensuring every successful payment optimisation benefits the entire merchant network. This approach is designed to increase acceptance rates, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue opportunities for merchants worldwide.

Checkout.com chief technology officer Mariano Albera said, “We’re thrilled to collaborate with Microsoft and adopt Azure, bringing this mission-critical platform into our technology stack.

“The Azure platform has leading machine learning capabilities – and Microsoft has long been a pioneer of embedding trust into every layer of cloud innovation so that organizations can build, run and scale critical workloads with absolute confidence. Our combined commitment to relentless innovation sets merchants up for success, enabling them to thrive. And beyond the here and now – enabling them to explore and embrace the agentic commerce models where AI agents search and shop on behalf of consumers.”

Microsoft financial services global head of payments Tyler Pichach said, “The payments industry is a constant source of AI-powered innovation and by collaborating and co-innovating with Microsoft, Checkout.com will be able to further enhance payment performance for merchants around the world. We are proud to be working with a successful, high growth UK-born fintech to scale even faster, across the globe.”