FAIRFX Group PLC Completion of Acquisition (9968O)

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RNS Number : 9968O

FAIRFX Group PLC

25 August 2017

RNS

25 August 2017

FairFX Group plc

("FairFX" or "the Company")

Completion of Acquisition

Further to the announcements on 8 August 2017 and 24 August 2017 regarding the acquisition of CardOne by FairFX and associated fundraising, the Company is pleased to confirm that the acquisition of CardOne has now completed.

Enquiries:

 
 FairFX Group plc 
  Ian Strafford-Taylor, 
  CEO                            [phone] 
 Cenkos Securities plc 
  Max Hartley/Callum Davidson    [phone] 
 Yellow Jersey PR 
  Charles Goodwin 
  Abena Affum                    [phone] 
 

About FairFX

FairFX is an online international payment services provider, first established in the UK in 2007. The Company has developed a cloud-based peer-to-peer payments platform that enables personal and business customers to make easy, low-cost multi-currency payments in a broad range of currencies and across a range of products all via one integrated system. The FairFX platform facilitates payments either direct to Bank Accounts or, via its prepaid cards, at over 35 million merchants and over 1 million ATMs worldwide. The platform operates on desktop, mobile responsive website or app and as such is accessible across a wide range of users.

FairFX operates within the rapidly growing online multi-currency payments market and provides transactional services to both personal and business customers through four channels being Currency Cards, Physical Currency, online and telephone. The Currency Card and Physical Currency offerings facilitate multiple overseas payments at points of sale and ATMs whereas the online and telephone products support wire transfer foreign exchange transactions direct to Bank Accounts.

For Corporates, FairFX has a business-expenses solution based around its corporate prepaid card allied to a platform designed to allow a corporate to better control expenses and improve transparency whilst removing administrative burdens from staff. The corporate offering also covers UK domestic expense management and as such is a solution for all companies, not just those with overseas travel.

In addition, FairFX has entered into a number of "white-label" arrangements for the use of its P2P matching platform. Customers include easyjet and ThinkMoney. FairFX has also partnered with Concur Technologies, Inc. a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions with over 25 million users globally. Such relationships provide strong support for FairFX's customer acquisition strategy.

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