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The Payments Group Holding: E-Geld-Lizenz + mögliche Stablecoins-Lizenz = Lizenz für höhere Prognose bis 2028?
27 August 2025 –
About The Payments Group Holding
The Payments Group Holding (PGH) is a holding company and venture capital provider based in Frankfurt am Main founded in 2012 and renamed in August 2024.
In August 2024, PGH signed a share purchase agreement for the acquisition of four PayTech companies, which is expected to close in summer 2025 subject to certain conditions precedent. After closing of the transaction, PGH will form a group of four operating PayTech companies:
Funanga AG, Campamocha Ltd with its 100%-owned subsidiaries TBWS Ltd and Calida Financial Ltd as well as Surfer Rosa Ltd form a fast-growing, vertically integrated e-Money PayTech group of companies – The Payments Group (TPG). TPG provides proprietary closed and open (branded and white-labelled) prepaid payment services to hundreds of online merchants worldwide. The synergy between these companies positions TPG as the future market leader in embedded financial products and prepaid solutions. Calida Financial Ltd. is the regulated company within TPG, having received an e-money license from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) in August 2024. This license entitles Calida Financial Ltd. to offer innovative e-money services and products across Europe.
TPG employs over 50 people and operates globally. TPG’s customers make use of more than 550,000 POS cash payment points and the global online prepaid card network to process cash and cashless online payments.
Furthermore, PGH operates an AI-focused company builder called ‘AI Product Factory’ together with AI experts via its future 25% stake in German AI Projects GmbH. In addition, The Payments Group Holding holds from its history as a leading German venture capital provider under the German Startups Group brand a heritage VC-portfolio of minority stakes in partly promising German startups via its wholly owned subsidiary German Startups Group VC GmbH.
Investor Relations Contact
Rosenberg Strategic Communications
Dirk Schmitt
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+49 170 302 8833
More information at https://tpgholding.com and https://www.payments-group.com/