One of Australia’s biggest private companies, payments group Airwallex, has signed a major sports sponsorship with English football giant Arsenal weeks after raising $US300 million ($461 million) as it pushes for more clients into Europe and the US.

Arsenal will use Airwallex as its payments platform and the tech company’s branding will appear for at least the next two years around its home ground, north London’s Emirates Stadium, under the terms of the deal.