The Swiss Surfer Behind $2 Billion Payments Startup Checkout.com

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The Swiss Surfer Behind $2 Billion Payments Startup Checkout.com
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Guillaume Pousaz, chief of a transaction-processing startup with a soaring valuation, says the future of banking will be built on payments companies

The newest face of the payments frenzy that has investors cheering and bank bosses scrambling is a 37-year-old Swiss surfer who dropped out of college to ride waves up and down the California coast.

Guillaume Pousaz spent roughly a decade transforming a low-tech payments firm he acquired into Checkout.com, a London-based transaction processor for fast-growing internet companies. Fresh off a nine-figure fundraising, the company is beefing up its presence in the U.S. and getting into other financial services, such as issuing...

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