Nexway
Industrye-commerce ; payment ; digital distribution
Founded1995
HeadquartersParis - France,
Paris
,
France
Key people
Victor Iezuitov - Chief Executive Officer ; Casey Potenzone - Chief Strategy Officer ; Frédéric Ribau - Chief Technology Officer ; Pierick Coustumer - Chief Operating Officer
Number of employees
100
Websitehttps://www.nexway.com/

Nexway is a French software and service company for ecommerce and payment.

History

Nexway was created in 2002 to distribute software to consumers under the name Téléchargement.fr (meaning “download” in French).  

  • In January 2009, Nexway acquires Boonty.[1]
  • In October 2018, Nexway SAS and its affiliates are grouped within the same holding company Nexway Group AG.
  • In January 2019, the German company Asknet AG acquires 100% of Nexway Group AG.[2]
  • In July 2019 asknet AG renames into Nexway AG. Both companies operate under the same brand since then.[3]
  • In April 2020, asknet AG sells Nexway Group AG to the Swiss holding company BPI Bureau de Promotion Immobilière SA, which becomes the sole shareholder of the Nexway Group AG.
  • In April 2023, the Federal Trade Commission fined Nexways $650k after accusing the company of knowingly processing credit card payments for Microsoft-themed support scammers.[4][5]

References

  1. "Cafe.com Offloads Boonty Distribution Platform To Nexway". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  2. "DGAP-News: asknet AG(TM) and Nexway(TM) are becoming one leading Global Commerce-as-a-Service platform and Merchant services pr". Bloomberg.com. 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  3. Pacaud, Julie (2019-09-26). "Nexway completes rebranding - Facebank AG now largest shareholder". Nexway. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  4. Karabus, Jude. "FTC orders payments firm to pay $650k over tech support scam". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  5. "nexway_order_14_april.pdf" (PDF). 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
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