Netherlands · Payments & e-money
CAB Europe B.V.
Trading asCAB Payments Europe/CAB Europe B.V.
CAB Europe B.V. is a Dutch private limited company based in Amsterdam. De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) authorises it as a payment institution under relation number R192360. It is a subsidiary of CAB Payments Holdings plc, the London-listed parent of Crown Agents Bank Limited. It trades as CAB Payments Europe and describes itself as a business-to-business cross-border payments and foreign exchange provider focused on hard-to-reach market currencies. Its clients include financial institutions, corporates, and humanitarian and development organisations. According to the group's website, the firm is regulated separately from Crown Agents Bank Limited and uses that bank as a facilitator for some services.
Licences and registrations
Held by CAB Europe B.V. (LEI 724500RC4B5B8ZQV5O76). 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 RegisterThe Netherlands Bank | Payment institutionPayment Institution | R192360 | Netherlands | Active | 2024-04-25 | — |
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Trading names on the register: CAB Payments Europe/CAB Europe B.V. (EBA-PSD2)
- 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
CAB Payments Holdings PLC
Firm type
FX and business payments
Trades as CAB Payments Europe
- Ownership
- CAB Payments Holdings plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, is the direct and ultimate parent according to the GLEIF record. Helios Fund III held about 45.11% of the parent in March 2026.
- Direct parent
- CAB Payments Holdings PLC ↗, United Kingdom
- Head office
- Gustav Mahlerplein 2, 1082 MA Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Company register
- KvK 88072649
Online
- Websites & references
- crownagentsbank.com ↗
crownagentsbank.com/group/europe ↗ CAB Europe page on the group website (entity contact details and regulatory statement)
cabpaymentseurope.com ↗ former CAB Payments Europe domain, now redirects to the CAB Europe page on crownagentsbank.com - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗
Sources · 12 pages consulted
- dnb.nl/en/public-register/information-detail/?registerCode=WFTBI&relationNumber=R192360
- crownagentsbank.com/group/europe/
- crownagentsbank.com/group-structure/
- crownagentsbank.com/team/
- crownagentsbank.com/terms-conditions/
- cabpaymentseurope.com/
- financialit.net/news/payments/cab-payments-secures-european-payment-service-provider-licence-expand-europ
- financemagnates.com/fintech/payments/cab-payments-secures-european-foothold-with-new-licence-and-amsterdam-of
- finance.yahoo.com/news/helios-fairfax-partners-corporation-provides-082400142.html
- globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/08/13/3344239/0/en/helios-cash-offer-for-cab-payments-holdings-plc-cash
- investormeetcompany.com/companies/cab-payments-holdings-plc/rns/4634027/view
- ajbell.co.uk/news/articles/earnings-and-trading-cab-payments-rebuffs-helios-bid-approach
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
DNB authorises the firm as a payment institution under the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (Wft). The authorisation covers money remittance-type credit transfers, direct debits, card payments, issuing of payment instruments and acquiring. DNB's register shows the licence passported on a services basis to 28 other EEA states. They were added in two groups, on 22 April 2024 and 1 September 2024.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) Netherlands | Authorisation to carry out the business of a payment service provider (PSD2 - Wft 2:3a), Betaalinstelling | R192360 | In its own name | Active | dnb.nl ↗ |
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.
Partners and safeguarding
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Safeguarding
- Segregated safeguarding accountsDNB's register records Stichting CAB Payments Europe as the third-party funds foundation linked to the firm, which DNB includes in its supervision.
Banks and regulated firms the firm says hold its customers’ money, issue its cards, sponsor its accounts or settle its payments, as it discloses them in its terms and notices.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It offers wholesale FX, cross-border payments and last-mile delivery in G10 and hard-to-reach market currencies to European clients, drawing on the CAB Payments group's network.
It serves clients from Amsterdam under its Dutch licence, which DNB's register shows passported on a cross-border services basis to 28 other EEA states.
- Revenue
- GBP 119m
- Sells to
- Financial institutions · Enterprises · Public sector · Other
- Serves customers in 29 countries
- Netherlands · Belgium · Bulgaria · Cyprus · Denmark · Germany · Estonia · Finland · France · Greece · Hungary · Ireland · Iceland · Italy · Croatia · Latvia · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Malta · Norway · Austria · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Slovenia · Slovakia · Spain · Czechia · Sweden
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Merger / acquisition
The Helios Consortium said its unrecommended offer for parent CAB Payments Holdings had support from holders of 52.42% of shares and awaited regulatory conditions.
globenewswire.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
StoneX Group approached parent CAB Payments Holdings about a possible acquisition. The parent's independent board rejected the 95 pence per share proposal.
investormeetcompany.com ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
The Helios Consortium announced a firm cash offer of USD 1.15 per share for parent CAB Payments Holdings. The parent's independent board did not recommend it.
finance.yahoo.com ↗ -
Licence
DNB's register shows the firm's payment services passported to 13 further EEA states from 1 September 2024.
dnb.nl ↗ -
Licence
DNB authorised the firm as a payment institution, and the group announced its launch as CAB Payments Europe in Amsterdam.
financialit.net ↗
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
- R192360
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address
- Elucidate firm ID
- c272d21db55e
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
- Payment Institution
- Activities
- Payment services
- Card acquiring
- Licensed in
- Netherlands · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2024-04-25
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
- Cab Payments Holdings PLC · United Kingdom8945007OZHZDN4LW1G21 ↗
The Cab Payments Holdings PLC group has 4 institutions in the directory, in 3 countries: 2 hold a BIC and 2 do not.
Including Crown Agents Global Markets LTD, Crown Agents Bank Limited, Gbm Securities Limited.
See the Cab Payments Holdings PLC group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Gustav Mahlerplein 2, AMSTERDAM, 1082MA
- Country
- Netherlands
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 one address line
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>724500RC4B5B8ZQV5O76</LEI>
<Nm>CAB Europe B.V.</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>1082MA</PstCd>
<TwnNm>AMSTERDAM</TwnNm>
<Ctry>NL</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Gustav Mahlerplein 2</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.
An institution missing from these registers is not necessarily unregulated.
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Read the methodology →Register for this page
- 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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