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Ebury

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Can a Santander-backed cross-border payments platform become the financial operating system for internationally-trading SMEs and mid-market businesses — while simultaneously monetising that infrastructure via embedded finance APIs sold to other platforms?

Founded2009
HQLondon, United Kingdom
Total raised£350M+
Latest roundPE Growth (Santander acquisition, 2019)
ValuationUp to £2 billion (reported IPO target, 2024)
IndustryFintech / Cross-border payments
The story

Founded in 2009 as an FX and international payments broker for SMEs, Ebury progressively broadened into a full transaction banking platform covering payments, collections, hedging, and working capital finance. The 2019 Santander acquisition provided capital to scale into Latin America and Asia and to deepen product coverage. Ebury has since positioned itself as an embedded finance infrastructure provider through 'Ebury Connect', enabling third-party platforms to white-label its payments and FX stack — a notable shift from pure B2B payments into infrastructure-as-a-service.

Last 12 months
2024-03
2024-08
Product timeline
2009
Founded in London as a foreign exchange and international payments specialist for SMEs.· pivot
2019
Banco Santander acquires 50.1% stake for £350M, integrating Ebury into the PagoNxt payments platform.· acquisition
2021
Expanded into trade finance with Supplier Payment Finance product offering unsecured credit lines up to £5M.· lending
2023
Launched Ebury Connect embedded finance suite, enabling platforms to embed Ebury's payments and FX via APIs.· banking
2024
Launched corporate multi-currency cards (virtual and physical) on Mastercard network, available in EUR, GBP and USD.· card
2024
Reportedly appointed Goldman Sachs to lead potential 2025 IPO on the London Stock Exchange at a valuation of up to £2 billion.· ipo
Regulated entities
5
regulatory licences held by Ebury
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
6 layers disclosed in Ebury’s embedded-finance stack
Money movement
SEPA
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Unified APIs
in the full report
FX & payouts
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
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