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Trustly against Nuvei: bank rails against the acquiring stack
One removed the card from the deposit flow. The other kept it and added everything else around it.
Figures are reported from public filings, company statements and our own coverage. There is deliberately no winner column — this is a comparison, not a recommendation.
The deposit is where an operator loses the most players, and the two most common answers to that are structurally opposed.
Trustly's is account-to-account: the player pays from a bank account, and Pay N Play goes further by removing the separate registration step entirely. That collapses two friction points into one and takes the card scheme out of the flow, along with its costs and its chargeback mechanics.
Nuvei's is breadth. Card acquiring stays, and a large catalogue of alternative methods sits alongside it behind one integration, so an operator entering a new market changes configuration rather than suppliers.
An operator in one Nordic market and an operator across six will not weigh these the same way, which is the point of running them side by side rather than picking one.