Ireland · Payments & e-money
Google Payment Ireland Limited
Trading asGPIL · Google Payment · Google Payments
Google Payment Ireland Limited (GPIL) is a private company limited by shares incorporated in Ireland, with its head office in Dublin. Since 24 December 2018 the Central Bank of Ireland has authorised it as a payment institution under the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018, reference C178423. Its terms describe it as a subsidiary of Google International, LLC. Alphabet Inc. is the ultimate parent. Its published terms cover payment processing for sellers on Google marketplaces in the EEA. Google Ireland Limited, a separate company, provides the consumer Google Pay service in the EEA.
Licences and registrations
Held by Google Payment Ireland Limited (LEI 9845003AA4F14A013C44). 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 | Payment institutionPayment Institution | C178423 | Ireland | Active | 2018-12-24 | — |
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Trading names on the register: GPIL (EBA-PSD2), Google Payment (EBA-PSD2), Google Payments (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
Google International, LLC
Firm type
Merchant acquiring and processing
Trades as Google Payments
- Ownership
- The firm's terms describe it as a subsidiary of Google International, LLC, and its LEI record names Alphabet Inc. as ultimate parent.
- Direct parent
- Google International, LLC, United States
- Ultimate owner
- Alphabet Inc., United States
- Head office
- Gordon House, Barrow Street, D04 E5W5 Dublin 2, Ireland (registered office: 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, D02 R296, Ireland)
- Company register
- Companies Registration Office (Ireland) 598776
Online
- Websites & references
- payments.google.com ↗
support.google.com ↗ Google payments center help centre (complaints policy for GPIL) - Official social accounts
- None found
Sources · 8 pages consulted
- registers.centralbank.ie/FirmRegisterDataPage.aspx?firmReferenceNumber=C178423®ister=61
- payments.google.com/payments/apis-secure/get_legal_document?ldo=0&ldt=sellertos&ldr=MT
- google.com/shopping/transactions/static/tos/fr/7_00_tos.html
- support.google.com/paymentscenter/answer/9034575?hl=en
- payments.google.com/legaldocument?family=0.privacynotice&hl=en
- payments.google.com/legaldocument?family=0.buyertos&gl=IE
- dnb.nl/en/public-register/information-detail/?registerCode=WFTBI&relationNumber=R161672
- finextra.com/newsarticle/33167/google-gets-payments-licence-in-ireland
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The Central Bank of Ireland authorises the firm as a payment institution, reference C178423, for issuing and acquiring payment transactions. The Central Bank register shows the authorisation passported on a freedom-of-services basis to 29 other EEA states.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bank of Ireland Ireland | Payment Institution authorised under Regulation 18 of the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018 | C178423 | In its own name | Active | registers.centralbank.ie ↗ |
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
Under its seller terms, the firm processes card and operator-billing payments for sellers on Google marketplaces and charitable donations, and settles funds to sellers' EEA bank accounts.
It serves sellers in the EEA from Ireland, and its authorisation is notified to 29 other EEA states on a freedom-of-services basis.
- Sells to
- Small businesses · Enterprises
- Serves customers in 30 countries
- Ireland · Austria · Belgium · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czechia · Denmark · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Iceland · Italy · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Malta · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
The research found no fines, investigations, security incidents, licence changes or corporate events from the last three years.
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
- C178423
- 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
- 33f9286e7955
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
- Ireland · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2018-12-24
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
- Alphabet Inc. · United States5493006MHB84DD0ZWV18 ↗
The Alphabet Inc. group has 6 institutions in the directory, in 4 countries: 3 hold a BIC and 3 do not.
Including Google Payment Limited, Google Payment Lithuania UAB, Google Asia Pacific Pte LTD, Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited Company, Google Ireland Limited.
See the Alphabet 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
- Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 2, D04E5W5
- 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 one address line
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>9845003AA4F14A013C44</LEI>
<Nm>Google Payment Ireland Limited</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>D04E5W5</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Dublin 2</TwnNm>
<Ctry>IE</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Gordon House, Barrow Street</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.
Register entries are not matched against the OFAC or EU sanctions lists. Where the legal entity also holds a BIC, the matches for that BIC are on its page. Always screen against the official lists.
An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
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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