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Central Bank authorises British fintech company Freemarket to operate in Ireland

The London-based cross-border payments company, which established an Irish entity two years ago, has been approved as a payments institution

The Cental Bank of Ireland has approved Freemarket, a British fintech company, to operate in Ireland

Freemarket, a British fintech company, has been authorised as a payment institution by the Central Bank of Ireland in a move that paves the way for the company to begin providing new financial services to businesses both here and further afield.

The London-based cross-border payments company, which recently ranked in the Top 100 of the Financial Times’ fastest growing European companies and in Deloitte’s UK Technology Fast 50 programme, was founded in 2011. It established ...