Ireland · Payments & e-money
Booking Holdings Financial Services International Limited
Booking Holdings Financial Services International Limited is an Irish private limited company based in Dublin. The Central Bank of Ireland authorised it as an electronic money institution under reference C447372 on 20 April 2022. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc. It forms part of Booking Holdings Financial Services (BHFS) together with a UK sister company, Booking Holdings Financial Services UK Limited. BHFS provides the Payments by Booking service, which handles guest payments for business partners of Booking.com B.V.
Licences and registrations
Held by Booking Holdings Financial Services International Limited (LEI 5493000F1JUO0REUGQ83). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EBA PSD2 RegisterCentral Bank of Ireland | Electronic money institutionE-Money / Stored Value Institution | C447372 | Ireland | Active | 2022-04-20 | — |
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- Each licence applies in the country of the regulator that granted it.
- Registers are tracked in 37 countries. Licences granted elsewhere are not recorded here.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% Booking Holdings Inc.
Firm type
Merchant acquiring and processing
Trades as Booking Holdings Financial Services (BHFS)
- Ownership
- The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Booking Holdings Inc., which is listed on Nasdaq.
- Direct parent
- Booking Holdings Inc. ↗, United States 100%
- Head office
- 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, D02 R296 Dublin, Ireland
- Incorporated
- 17 Jul 2020
Online
- Websites & references
- bookingholdings.com ↗ Booking Holdings group page describing Booking Holdings Financial Services (group level)
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 5 pages consulted
- admin.booking.com/hotel/hoteladmin/privacy.html?lang=xu&policy=bhfs
- bookingholdings.com/about/financial-services/
- fintechireland.com/news-insights/booking-holdings-authorised-to-provide-e-money-and-payment-services-and-upd
- thecurrency.news/articles/161660/how-ireland-slots-into-bookings-fintech-ambitions/
- lei.bloomberg.com/leis/view/5493000F1JUO0REUGQ83
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The Central Bank of Ireland authorises the firm as an electronic money institution under the European Communities (Electronic Money) Regulations 2011. Besides issuing e-money, it may execute card payments and credit transfers, issue payment instruments and acquire payment transactions.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bank of Ireland Ireland | Electronic Money Institution | C447372 | In its own name | Active | — |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
BHFS provides the Payments by Booking service to accommodation partners of Booking.com B.V. It collects guest payments for the partners and processes payments to them.
The firm does not publish a list of the countries it serves. It holds an Irish electronic money institution authorisation.
- Sells to
- Small businesses · Enterprises
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Other
The Currency reported that the firm's Irish accounts said it intended to begin trading as an e-money institution in 2025.
thecurrency.news ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
- Licence no. · EBA-PSD2
- C447372
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name and country only
- Elucidate firm ID
- 1967d4f9f21d
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-moneyPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Main licence class
- E-Money / Stored Value Institution
- Activities
- Payment services
- Card acquiring
- E-money / stored value
- Licensed in
- Ireland · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2022-04-20
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Booking Holdings Inc. · United StatesFXM8FAOHMYDIPD38UZ17 ↗
The Booking Holdings Inc. group has 4 institutions in the directory, in 4 countries: 2 hold a BIC and 2 do not.
Including Booking Holdings Financial Services UK Limited, Agoda Company Pte. Ltd., Booking.com.
See the Booking Holdings Inc. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- 4th Floor, 78 Sir John Rogersons Quay, Dublin 2, Not Available
- Country
- Ireland
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in two address lines
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>5493000F1JUO0REUGQ83</LEI>
<Nm>Booking Holdings Financial Services International Limited</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>Not Available</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Dublin 2</TwnNm>
<Ctry>IE</Ctry>
<AdrLine>4th Floor, 78 Sir John Rogersons</AdrLine>
<AdrLine>Quay</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>CBPR+ identifies the instructing and instructed agents by BIC only. An institution without a BIC can be the debtor, creditor or an intermediary agent.
The values are as published by the register. Check them against your own records before use.
Sources & method
Register entries come from the public registers of financial regulators, standardised into one taxonomy. LEIs are matched through GLEIF, and a BIC is linked only through a shared LEI.
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- EBA PSD2 Register—European Banking Authority (EBA) · source ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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