About Us
Company Profile
Earthport Plc (Earthport) has been making national and international Bank payments and collections since 1998. Earthport is a public company and is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange. Earthport owns, provides and hosts an international money movement platform called the Universal Payments Network, which links an international network of segregated Client Bank Accounts. Using this platform, Earthport makes secure, low cost international bank payments and collections worldwide.
Earthport is registered as a Money Service Business with HM Revenue and Customs and holds a Small E-Money Issuer Certificate from the Financial Services Authority (FSA). All client money is kept in segregated Client accounts which follow FSA regulations. Earthport has applied to the FSA for a full e-Money licence and has committed to achieving PSD compliance by November 2009.
Earthport is also a member of SWIFT, the international bank clearing system used by nearly all banks worldwide. Membership is via a Members Administered Closed User Group (MACUG) sponsored by Barclays Bank in the UK and provides Earthport with the benefits of SWIFT.
Why Choose Us?
We have spent several years, and in excess of £70 million, developing our Universal Payments Network so that our clients do not have to develop their own international payment and collection solutions.
Our objectives are to:
- Minimise your investment in time and money by offering you access to our Universal Payments Network and thus, provide you with a cost-effective, secure, highly reliable/scalable international payments solution;
- Tailor our UPN based solution to suit your specific business requirements;
- Assist you in making the right decision in terms of compliance with anti-money laundering legislation and keep you updated in terms of the impact of new payment industry regulations and legislation.
With vast payments industry experience and a world class attitude to solutions through partnership, we want to put your organisations global payment needs into production, going through the details with you at every step.
What We Offer
At Earthport, we understand the importance of maintaining banking relationships that have been developed over a period of years. So, as an Earthport client, you continue to use your current banking relations for everyday financial activity.
Earthport's service simply gives you an additional easy-to-use, low cost, secure/reliable choice for making international payments or collections.
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