Nuvei, a global payments technology provider, has expanded its long-standing relationship with Microsoft as part of its multi-year plan to modernise its infrastructure and support rapidly scaling enterprise merchants worldwide.
The move comes as the company seeks to enhance performance, reliability and processing capacity. By running its core payment processing APIs on Microsoft Azure and leveraging Azure AI capabilities, Nuvei aims to surpass 10,000 transactions per second and deliver 99.999% availability to enterprise clients.
Nuvei offers a modular and scalable suite of payment capabilities, enabling companies to accept next-generation payments, provide a wide range of payout options, and access card issuing, banking, risk and fraud management services. With connectivity across more than 200 markets, local acquiring in 50 markets, support for 150 currencies and over 720 alternative payment methods, the firm provides unified infrastructure designed to help businesses grow locally and globally.
The upgraded product suite, powered by Azure, introduces an AI-native core processing environment that adapts and optimises transactions in real time. This distributed, cloud-based architecture significantly boosts elasticity, reduces latency and increases the robustness of merchant payment flows during peak traffic. It is designed to support Nuvei’s ambition to facilitate more than $1tn in annual payment volume for global businesses.
As part of this modernisation, Nuvei has integrated Azure core services into its infrastructure, including Azure ExpressRoute for private connectivity, Azure Firewall for network security, Azure Kubernetes Service for container orchestration, Azure Defender for Cloud for advanced threat protection, and Azure Application Gateway with WAF for enhanced application security. These systems operate across four strategic Azure regions—UK South, Sweden Central, US West and US East—to ensure consistent performance and high availability.
Additional enhancements will be deployed over time to strengthen global performance, streamline merchant onboarding and expand Azure AI-powered optimisation. Nuvei stated that these continuous upgrades will compound in value as the system learns from each processed transaction and delivers more consistent outcomes across regions.
Nuvei chair and CEO Phil Fayer said, “Every payment should succeed with speed and accuracy, every time, wherever our customers operate. Running our core processing on Microsoft Azure gives us an AI-native foundation that adapts in real time, optimizes transactions globally, and meets regional data-residency requirements. It strengthens performance today and enables us to deliver new AI-driven capabilities as our clients scale.”
Microsoft global head of payments strategy Tyler Pichach said, “Microsoft Azure’s AI-ready infrastructure complements Nuvei’s enterprise payments expertise. This step positions Nuvei to deliver the resilient, responsive, and optimized payment experiences required for the future of global commerce.”
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