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A financial acquirer is a bank that does business with merchants enabling them to accept credit cards. A merchant has an account with this bank and each day deposits the value of a day’s credit card sales. Acquiring banks buy (acquire) the merchant’s sales slips and credit the value to the merchant’s account.
