Fintechs, platforms and merchants come to us for accounts, IBANs, cards, acquiring and cross-border payouts. We introduce you to a licensed provider that fits your business and stay with you through their onboarding.
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Tell us what you need to move, where and how much. We introduce you to a licensed institution that can serve you, and help you through their onboarding.
Most businesses come to us with a problem, not a product: an account closed, a corridor that will not settle, a card programme that stalled, a provider that cannot onboard their sector.
Share a few details and we will come back within one working day with a recommended route.
Start an enquiryIntroductions to licensed providers of named IBANs for collections, settlement and payouts.
Learn moreIntroductions to BIN sponsors and issuers for prepaid, debit and corporate card programmes.
Learn moreIntroductions to acquirers and payment providers, including for higher-risk sectors.
Learn moreIntroductions to licensed providers for multi-currency payouts and FX.
Learn moreIntroductions to providers that bank crypto businesses, and to MiCA-regulated stablecoin partners.
Learn moreOnboarding is where most payment projects lose time. We prepare you for it before it starts.
Products, markets, volumes and timing, in a short form or a call.
We recommend a licensed provider whose risk appetite and products fit, and make the introduction.
We help you assemble the KYB pack and answer compliance questions first time.
The provider approves and opens your account. We stay involved through integration and your first transactions.
7 Seas Consultants holds no banking, payment or e-money licence and is not authorised by the FCA or any other regulator. We never hold, move or have access to client money.
Our consultancy work is built around each client, starting with a free discovery call. Most of it is research, RFI and RFP preparation, and benchmarking.
Straight answers, a written scope before any work starts, and every fee or interest disclosed up front.
Our promise
Every engagement led by Marc personally
Straight answers to the questions we are asked most.
7 Seas Consultants is a UK payments consultancy based in Elstree, Hertfordshire. It introduces fintechs, platforms and merchants to licensed providers of business accounts, IBANs, card issuing, acquiring and cross-border payouts, and advises payment businesses, investors and boards on research, RFI and RFP procurement, benchmarking and strategy.
No. 7 Seas Consultants Ltd holds no banking, payment or e-money licence and never holds client money. Accounts, cards and payments are provided by the licensed institutions it introduces, under their own terms and onboarding checks.
An introduction costs the client nothing. A provider may pay 7 Seas an introducer fee, which is disclosed to the client in writing before any introduction. Consultancy work is charged at a fixed fee or day rate agreed in a written scope.
Fintechs and PSPs, banks and EMIs, marketplaces and platforms, payroll and contractor businesses, digital asset firms, online merchants including higher-risk sectors, and investors and boards assessing payments businesses, across the UK, Europe, the US and the UAE.
Marc Conway, its founder and sole director, who has more than twenty years in payments and networking across the UK, Europe, the US and the UAE. Every engagement is led by Marc personally.
Book a free discovery call through the contact page. Every client is different, so we start by understanding your business and the decision in front of you, then recommend a route or send a tailored proposal.
Share a few details about your business and what you need. We reply within one working day with a recommended route.