Nexi, an Italian bank that specialises in payment systems, agreed to acquire a minority stake in Computop, a developer of local and innovative omnichannel solutions for payment processing and fraud prevention applications. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Computop enables Nexi to further strengthen its position in the key growth region of DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), especially Germany, and in the dynamic e-commerce space. Computop brings unique capabilities in payments with at-scale online and omnichannel payments that can be tailored customer-by-customer for the specific needs of local merchants in Germany and Europe, whether they plan to grow their business within Europe or with locations around the world”, Omar Haque, Nexi head of Group E-commerce.