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Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by whazor on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:27AM (#16289014)
I have heard of it as it's a Dutch company and I am Dutch. They are doing really well in the sense of having many payment methods, as in Europe every country prefers a different method. The CEO has a lot of experience in payment integrations and financial transactions, even before starting Adyen. Furthermore, in the Netherlands they are also rolling out payment machines that are cheap and support many payment options (also think about Apple Pay etc).
Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by cyberferret on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:06AM (#16289155)
Cool. As a native Dutch, perhaps you can shed some light. I saw on the video that the pronunciation of the name is more like "Ardee-yun". Is that correct? Also, is it a Dutch word? If so, I'm interested in learning what it means (if anything).
Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by Alexandervn on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:21AM (#16289210)
From their about page, it's 'Surinamese for “Start over again”'. It seems to be pronounced as "Ah-dee-yen".
Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by Fnoord on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:35AM (#16289439)
Thank you for that explanation!

To me it sounded very much like Limburgs dialect (specifically Kerkraads dialect) "adieë wa" (only first part, but sometimes the second part is omitted anyway) [1]

English Wikipedia also has an entry for the company Adyen, btw [2].

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groet_(etiquette)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyen

Re:EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen by _susanoo on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:20AM (#16289204)
Adyen doesn't mean anything in Dutch. We, or atleast I as a native Dutch person, pronounce it AD (as in Latin ad) - YEN (as in the Japanese currency).