January 16, 2016

Currencycloud secures $10m in funding

Viva la payments revolución! Currencycloud secures $10m in funding

‘Hero of FinTech’ creating a world where moving money is easy

LONDON, UK (15 April 2014): Currencycloud, an international payments engine, has raised $10m in a Series B funding round to complement the $9M invested in 2012.  The full round came from existing investors Atlas VentureAnthemis GroupNotion Capital and XAnge Private Equity with Silicon Valley Bank providing a further line of capital.

Making an international payment through traditional channels can be expensive, opaque and complicated due to out dated processes and high margin foreign exchange practices. Currencycloud is a software-as-a-service company, which believes small businesses and consumers deserve a better service, and that technology is the way to deliver it.

Currencycloud’s customers include payments firms (PayoneerKantoxAzimo), banks (Fidor BankMedBank), and e-commerce solutions (Klarna). By connecting via a simple API, they can access a global network providing quick, transparent and secure international payments, benefits that they can pass to their customers. Currencycloud provides full transparency on its margins and wholesale rates. Setup time is minimal.

Currencycloud has achieved strong growth over the last 18 months:  the total number of transactions passing through its network has increased twelvefold year on year and the company is now securely moving billions of dollars around the world per annum.

Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, comments: “Traditional international payments are broken. We’re bringing to this market the levels of efficiency and simplicity that companies like Stripe have brought to consumer payments.”

“While 85 percent of international payments go through banks, more and more businesses are now turning to us to provide their international payments capabilities. Unlike other payments providers, we make cross-border payments transparent and frictionless. New clients can also get set up with our service quickly via our developer-friendly API.”

“As a technology firm, it is in our DNA to continually build our capabilities so that we can offer the best possible service for our customers. With this investment, we can further refine our platform and expand into new geographies. We operate in a truly global sector and want businesses in different parts of the world to enjoy simple, secure and reliable cross border payments.”

Erin Lockwood, Managing Director of Commercial Banking at Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Branch said: “We are excited to be working with Currencycloud and look forward to being a long term partner as the business grows. The company is using technology to solve an important client need, which we believe has huge potential.”

Alex Scandurra, Director of Innovation Strategy & Business Development, Barclays, at ‘City Futures: Financial Services and the Role of Technology in its Future’ 21st January 2014

About Currencycloud

Currencycloud‘s Payment Engine is the power inside countless businesses, driving the transformation of the global payments landscape. The company is reimagining the way money flows through the global digital economy, allowing payment firms to remove the friction and inefficiencies of traditional cross-border payments using its flexible APIs. Launched in 2012 Currencycloud is based in London and is regulated in Europe, the USA and Canada. For more information about the company, please visit www.currencycloud.com.

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Micky Izelaar
press@currencycloud.com
0845 370 7024

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