Gr4vy and Airwallex Partner to Expand Global Payment Control for Enterprise Merchants

 Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced a new partnership with Airwallex, a leading global financial and payments platform for modern businesses, adding Airwallex as a payment connection. The integration gives enterprise merchants direct access to Airwallex’s card acquiring capabilities through Gr4vy’s orchestration platform, along with access to Optimize 360, Airwallex’s AI-powered payment optimization engine.

As merchants expand into new markets, payment infrastructure tends to become fragmented. Adding new acquirers, meeting local requirements, and maintaining performance often means stitching together multiple systems or reworking parts of the stack. This integration gives merchants a more direct way to introduce global acquiring, while also helping them improve payment performance through smarter routing, retries, authentication, and tokenization. For merchants already integrated with Gr4vy, this creates a faster path to Airwallex’s optimization capabilities without needing a separate direct integration.

“Adding Airwallex gives our merchants a strong global acquiring option, but more importantly, it gives them control,” said John Lunn, CEO of Gr4vy. “With Gr4vy, merchants decide how and when to use each provider, based on performance, cost, or region.”

That control extends to how payments are authenticated and optimized. The integration supports 3D Secure, covering both Airwallex-managed authentication and the ability to pass through external authentication data. It also gives merchants access to Airwallex Optimize 360, which applies real-time intelligence across fraud protection, network acceptance, and payment recovery to help improve approval rates, reduce friction, and manage cost more effectively.

The connection also enables the passthrough of device fingerprinting and enriched transaction data into Airwallex, giving merchants better visibility into transactions and more control over risk. Combined with Optimize 360’s ability to learn from issuer behaviour, shopper trends, and payment performance across 35+ markets, merchants can make more informed payment decisions while adapting to changing market conditions.

“Enterprise merchants shouldn’t have to choose between global reach and payment performance,” said Ivo Jenni, Payments Product General Manager, at Airwallex. “Our partnership with Gr4vy gives merchants access to Airwallex Optimize 360 through the orchestration layer they already use, helping them benefit from smarter routing, retries, authentication, and cost optimization without taking on another integration project.”

The Airwallex connector is fully integrated into Gr4vy’s infrastructure, allowing merchants to enable it directly through the Gr4vy dashboard using their Airwallex credentials. The partnership reinforces Gr4vy’s role as an orchestration layer for enterprises expanding globally, while giving merchants a simpler way to access Airwallex’s optimization capabilities and improve transaction performance across their existing payment stack.