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Equals Money

Can Equals Money — post-merger with Railsr — become Europe's go-to regulated embedded finance infrastructure for fintechs, neobanks, and digital asset firms that need licensed payments, card-issuing, and multi-currency accounts without building their own stack?

Founded2005
HQ68 Upper Thames Street, 3rd Floor, Vintners' Place, London, EC4V 3BJ, United Kingdom
Latest round2ndary - Private
IndustryFintech / Cross-border payments
The story

Founded as Casco Financial Services Limited around 2005, Equals Money originally focused on foreign exchange and international payments for corporates. Over time it expanded into multi-currency business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management, positioning itself as a UK-regulated alternative to traditional bank FX desks. The 2025 merger with Railsr — itself an embedded finance infrastructure pioneer — marked a strategic pivot from being a payments and FX provider into a full Banking-as-a-Service platform, enabling fintechs, neobanks, and digital asset firms to build regulated financial products on top of Equals Money's infrastructure and licences.

Last 12 months
2024-12
2025-04
2025-06
2026-03
Product timeline
2005
Founded as Casco Financial Services Limited, a foreign exchange and international payments specialist.· pivot
2007
CBInsights records formal founding year; business evolves to focus on multi-currency business accounts and corporate cards.· banking
2024
Equals Group (parent) agrees to be acquired by a consortium (JC Flowers, TowerBrook, Railsr shareholders) for £283 million at 140p per share.· acquisition
2025
Equals Money and Railsr officially combine, merging Railsr's embedded finance infrastructure with Equals Money's payments and multi-currency account platform.· acquisition
2025
Launched BaaS / embedded finance product suite with APIs, white-label solutions, and card-issuing programmes targeting fintechs, neobanks, digital asset firms, and CFD businesses.· banking
Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by Equals Money
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
6 layers disclosed in Equals Money’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Equals Money Payments (self-operated)
Money movement
in the full report
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Card issuing
in the full report
Sponsor bank
in the full report
FX & payouts
in the full report
Accounting gap: significant
7 more providers across 5 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.