Our Mission
The Payments Group Holding is a stock-listed holding company based in Germany with majority shareholdings in four operating FinTech companies and a venture capital provider based in Frankfurt/Main. Its 75% subsidiaries Funanga AG (Germany), Campamocha Ltd (Malta) with its 100% -owned entities TWBS Ltd (Malta) and Calida Financial Ltd (Malta) as well as Surfer Rosa Ltd (Isle of Man) form a fast-growing, vertically integrated e-Money Fintech group of companies – The Payments Group Holding (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 finance and prepaid solutions.
The Payments Group Holding (TPG) employs over 50 people and operates globally. TPG’s customers make use of more than 550,000 POS cash payment stations and the global online prepaid card network to process cash and cashless online payments.
From its history as a leading German venture capital provider under the German Startups Group brand, The Payments Group Holding also holds a heritage portfolio of minority stakes in partly promising German startups via its wholly owned subsidiary German Startups Group VC GmbH.”
Planned structure subject to AGM resolutions and closing of the acquisition
MANAGEMENT
Christoph GerlingerCEO
Christoph is CEO of SGT German Private Equity GmbH & Co. KGaA, which he founded in 2012 which until October 2020 operated under the brand of German Startups Group and was a leading German VC provider in Germany with investments in start-ups such as Delivery Hero, Chrono 24, MisterSpex and Scalable Capital.
In 2020, German Startups Group merged with SGT Capital Pte. Ltd. and became SGT German Private Equity GmbH & Co. KGaA. Christoph has gained over 20 years of management experience in the Internet industry, in which he has founded and brought to life a number of businesses. Amongst these is Frogster Interactive Pictures AG, founded in 2005, which he took public and managed as CEO for seven years. Prior to that, he was Head of Germany for Infogrames/Atari and CFO of CDV, which he took public as well.
Christoph was named one of the 50 most interesting founders by the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, was appointed external expert of the network 'Digitalization' and member of the digital commission by the federal board of the CDU. He holds a graduate degree in Business Administration from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt and is a graduate of the artificial intelligence executive program of MIT Sloan School / CSAIL, Cambridge. He also is alumnus of Singularity University’s 'Executive Program 2017' and 'Future of AI Program 2024' in Silicon Valley, USA. Christoph occasionally releases own articles and gives interviews in various publications.
Supervisory Board
Lawyer
Founder and Managing Director of a corporate finance advisory and investment company
More than 20 years on the board of directors and head of investment management at various investment companies
Over 30 years of experience as a supervisory board member in listed companies
Capital Markets Expert
Long-standing seats on various supervisory boards, 35 years of banking experience in leading positions
More than 10 years as CEO of AXG Investment Bank and Head of Corporate Finance Commerzbank
Significantly involved in more than 40 IPOs
Fund and capital markets expert
Co-founder and supervisory board chairman of Shareholder Value Management AG, an owner-managed investment specialist with focus on value stocks, based in Frankfurt
Roughly 20 years of expertise as executive board member and fund manager
Accredited advocate
The Payments Group
Founded in 2012, The Payments Group (formerly Funanga) and its three pioneering enterprises in the online payment sector — Calida Financial Ltd., TWBS Ltd. (both wholly owned by Campamocha Holding Ltd.), and Surfer Rosa Ltd.—will soon join forces with SGT German Private Equity GmbH & Co. KGaA to form The Payments Group Holding. Together, they will offer a comprehensive range of online payment services, including embedded financial services, prepaid technologies, and global payment and payout solutions. This combination will create a specialist and pioneer in vertically-integrated financial services, unprecedented in the industry. Our business customers will benefit from superior solutions, a strong market position, and extensive synergies among the involved companies.”
