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Our story

Unlocking the power of payment. Together.

CCV was founded in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in 1958 by Cor and Bep van de Velden. What back then started as a small-size accounting firm, would grow out to a full-service international payment provider over the years that followed.

From facilitating the first electronic payments in the Netherlands in the 70s, to offering the first mobile payment terminals there and enabling next-gen online payment services throughout Europe from the 00s and onwards; CCV has always been a pioneer in payment.

Our successes are based on our forward-thinking and dedication to entrepreneurship; we always understood the challenges of entrepreneurs and made a conscious effort to make a difference for their business. And we still do today.

Today, CCV is evolving into a new era in payment once again. We are now counting more than 900 employees based in three countries and are serving entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes throughout Europe and beyond.

But in our core, we’re still the genuinely customer- and people-oriented family business that we started out as. We’re privately owned and care about our growth as a company equally much as we care about the growth and well-being of our employees, our customers and society at large.

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Our milestones

For over sixty years, we’ve been empowering businesses and people through payments. And through ingenuity, courage, innovation, perseverance and hard work, we have reached many milestones.

1958

Computercentrum Cor van de Velden (CCV) founded  

1967

CCV is the first to introduce a semi-automated accounting system in the Netherlands

1979

CCV enables first electronic payments in the Netherlands

1989

CCV introduces first payment terminals 

1992

CCV introduces first card-based loyalty programme

1998

CCV introduces first mobile payment terminal in the Netherlands

2000

Start of further expansion through acquisitions in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium  

2003

CCV facilitates first online payments  

2007

CCV starts processing Dutch PIN transactions

2013

CCV builds own data centre  

2018

CCV launches next-generation terminals with Android OS  

2021

Giant step forward with cloud-kick transactions (transactions that are initiated through the cloud instead of a local network)

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Our responsibility

CCV carries great responsibility as a financial institution. Economically, ecologically and socially. With our #WeCare programme, we have set clear targets in each of these areas. Read all about it below and in our statement ‘corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability’.