Currencies Direct

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Period: 11 Aug 2015 - 20 Sep 2023

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Currencies Direct announces partnership with Transact Payments

Currencies Direct, a leading international payments provider, has partnered with Transact Payments, the experts in cards and payments. The new partnership has enabled Currencies Direct to launch a multi-currency debit card, giving customers the ability to spend seamlessly in over 200 countries (wherever Mastercard is accepted).

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Currencies Direct scores £140m investment from Blackstone

Palamon Capital Partners (“Palamon”), a pan-European growth investor, and Corsair, a leading private equity firm targeting services, software, and payments investments in the financial services market, today announced that funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities (“Blackstone”) have agreed to make a £140 million strategic investment in Currencies Direct (the “Company”), a leading global provider of digital foreign exchange (“FX”) and international payment services to private clients and small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Currencies Direct completes £165 million dividend recapitalisation

Currencies Direct (the “Company”), a global leader in digital foreign exchange (“FX”) and international payment services, has completed a £165 million dividend recapitalisation.

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Currencies Direct chooses Onfido to scale customer onboarding

Onfido, the award-winning global identity verification platform, today announced a partnership with Currencies Direct, the leading international payments provider, to power its identity verification for onboarding new customers.

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Currencies Direct unveils batch payments platform

International payments provider Currencies Direct has launched a new platform which will change the face of batch payments.

Currencies Direct launches developers' platform

Currencies Direct, the UK’s leading international payments provider, today announces the launch of its suite of API services.

Currencies Direct switches on xCurrent from Ripple for Indian remittances

Currencies Direct switches on xCurrent from Ripple for Indian remittances

Currencies Direct is to open a new real-time cross-border remittance corridor to India using Ripple's xCurrent payment protocol.

Currencies Direct completes successful pilot of XRP for FX payments

Currencies Direct has successfully completed an international payment over Ripple’s xRapid platform using XRP.

Currencies Direct aims for end-to-end STP with Trace's Transformer

Trace Financial announced today that Currencies Direct, the global money transfer specialists, are using Transformer's powerful message and data transformation capabilities to streamline the handling of inbound and outbound SWIFT messages.

Palamon Capital and Corsair Capital agree £200m Currencies Direct acquisition

Palamon Capital Partners, a pan-European growth investor, and Corsair Capital, a leading private equity investor in global financial services, today announced an agreement to jointly acquire control of Currencies Direct (“The Company”), a leading specialist provider of foreign exchange (“FX”) and international payment solutions to private and corporate clients.

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