
When Your PSP Buys Your Billing Engine: What Adyen’s $335M Orb Acquisition Means for Subscription Merchants
Adyen agreed to acquire enterprise billing platform Orb for $335 million, with the deal closing July 1, 2026. Adyen’s long-term goal is to converge billing and payments into a single platform. For subscription merchants, the structural hedge is an independent routing architecture: multi-provider routing with local acquiring in each market, operating regardless of which vendor runs the billing engine.