Awards, Accolades & Achievements

Currencies Direct’s head office and global trading centre is based in the City of London. It has offices across 5 continents, with a 2,000 strong franchise network of business partners and affiliates.

Currencies Direct is one of Europe’s largest independent foreign exchange specialists, and was one of the first to recognise the need in the market for an expert secondary foreign exchange provider to traditional banks. Our private wealth management (high net worth individuals) payment proposition has received many recommendations and service awards from the Industry including the prestigious ‘BT Entrepreneur award’ and has been recognised as one of the fastest growing Companies in UK.

How we've grown
1996 Currencies Direct established
1999 First overseas office opened in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, Spain
2002 Second Spanish office opened in Puerto Banús, on the Costa del Sol, Spain
2003 Currencies Direct expands to Sydney, Australia to meet the needs of clients emigrating down under
2004 Sydney office granted Australian Financial Services License.
Third Spanish office opened in Mojácar on the Costa Almeria, Spain
Office opened in Cape Town, South Africa
2005 Currencies Direct office opened in Mumbai, India
2006 Currencies Direct opens new office in City of London - European Trading Hub and Azibo Group Head Quarters.
2007 Currencies Direct opens its first office in Georgia, North America
Second Australian office opens in Melbourne, Australia
2007 Currencies Direct restructures Operating Board
2007 Currencies Direct launches “Aurora Enterprise” – Integrated FX and Payment platform
2007 Currencies Direct launches new office in Dubai, UAE
2007 Currencies Direct Americas Incorporated.
2007 Currencies Direct Canada Incorporated for 2008 Trading.
2007 Currencies Direct acquires a majority stake in Universal Vat Services.
2008 Currencies Direct opens office in Ontario, Canada.
2008 Currencies Direct launches on-line trading platform, i-payfx.
2009 Currencies Direct and its parent company, the Azibo Group launch FX4Charity at the House of Lords.
2009 Currencies Direct becomes Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for the provision of payment services
2009 Currencies Direct launches new corporate image and look and feel to reinforce its position as a global leading payments innovator and service provider.
2010 Currencies Direct, after many years providing foreign exchange solutions within the card space, launches its own branded Currencies Direct Euro Prepaid MasterCard
2010 Currencies Direct joins SWIFT network
2010 Currencies Direct achieves a level 1 credit rating on Dun & Bradstreet
2011 Industry veteran Keith Hatton joins Currencies Direct as Group CEO
2011 Currencies Direct opens office in Algarve, Portugal
2011 Currencies Direct opens office in Manchester, UK
2012 Currencies Direct South Africa accredited as an 'Authorised Financial Services Provider'
2012 Currencies Direct India scales up operation and moves to bigger premises