18 Feb 2014 07:00
18 February 2014
Earthport plc
("Earthport", the "Company" or the "Group")
New Payments Routes in LATAM
Earthport rolls out cross-border payments service in Colombia and Mexico
Earthport (AIM: EPO), the cross-border payments service provider, today announces the launch of two payment routes into Mexico and Colombia to broaden its footprint in the Latin American region. The new payment corridors will enable clients to offer faster and more efficient payments into these markets, while allowing them to benefit from greater transparency and improved customer experience.
With $22bn (£14bn) worth of remittance payments a year, Mexico is the fourth largest remittance market in the world after India, China and the Philippines. The addition of this route enables Earthport to serve three of the top four global remittance destinations. With a significant number of emigrants to the U.S., Colombia is the fourth largest remittance destination in Latin America.
There is increasing demand for high volume, low value payments and the Earthport service enables its clients to provide advance disclosure of the principal amount and settlement dates of cross-border transfers, resulting in improved transparency and predictability as well as enhanced customer experience.
Hank Uberoi, Executive Director of Earthport plc, commented, "We were delighted to add a number of countries to our network over the last year, and now bolstering our reach into Latin America further cements our position as the specialist white-label service for low value payments with a global footprint in all continents.
"In addition to leveraging our local clearing capabilities in more than 50 countries, clients using the Earthport service benefit from a payments service that achieves the transparency required under Dodd-Frank 1073."
For further information, please contact:
Earthport plc Hank Uberoi / Paul Thomas/ Chris Cowlard
| 020 7220 9700 |
Panmure Gordon Katherine Roe / Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel
| 020 7886 2500 |
Charles Stanley Securities Mark Taylor / Paul Brotherhood
| 020 7149 6000 |
Newgate Threadneedle Fiona Conroy / Caroline Evans-Jones / Josh Royston / Jasper Randall
| 020 7653 9850 |
About Earthport
Earthport plc, a regulated global financial services organisation, specialises in the provision of a white label cross-border payments service.
Through its innovative payments framework, specifically designed for high volumes of low value cross-border payments, Earthport provides a cost-effective and transparent service for secure international payments. Earthport's clients include banks, money transfer organisations, payment aggregators, e-commerce and foreign exchange businesses. Through Earthport's well established payments infrastructure, clients can clear and settle payments directly to banked beneficiaries in over 50 countries.
The company is headquartered in London and is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange. It operates globally with additional regional offices in Dubai and New York. Earthport plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Payment Service Regulations 2009 for the provision of payment services. To learn more, please visit www.earthport.com and follow us via RSS or on social channels, Twitter @Earthport, LinkedIn, Youtube and Slideshare.