Ireland · Payments & e-money
Squareup International Limited
Squareup International Limited is a private company incorporated in Ireland under company number 583287, with its head office in Dublin. The Central Bank of Ireland authorises it as an electronic money institution under reference C184117, and the EBA register dates the authorisation to 18 June 2020. It belongs to the Block, Inc. group of the United States. Trading as Square, it acquires and processes card payments for businesses in Ireland, France and Spain, and also sells point-of-sale software and hardware that are not regulated.
Licences and registrations
Held by Squareup International Limited (LEI 549300S1PT3M9JIUWL37). 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 IrelandLinked by LEI. Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name and country only. | Electronic money institutionE-Money / Stored Value Institution | C184117 | Ireland | Active | 2020-06-18 | — |
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Trading names on the register: Square (EBA-PSD2)
- Licences belong to the legal entity, not to a BIC.
- 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.
- The register entries and their trading names were not matched against sanctions lists. The sanctions facts on this page cover the BIC and its LEI only.
European registers
ECB · monetary financial institutions
List as at 2026-09-25
- Category
- Other monetary financial institution
- Minimum reserves
- Not on the ECB reserve list
- Listed as
- Squareup International Limited
- RIAD code
- IECBI00184117
Entries are matched on the LEI. Each register is quoted as its publisher lists it.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- SQILIE22XXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Reverse billingThe institution is connected to Swift. Messages sent to it are billed to the institution, not to the sender. The “2” in the eighth character of SQILIE22 marks reverse billing.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- BIC first registered
- 2023-10-09
- Last updated
- 2023-10-09
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Block, Inc.
Firm type
Merchant acquiring and processing
Trades as Square
- Ownership
- According to its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) record, Block, Inc. of the United States is both its direct and its ultimate accounting parent.
- Direct parent
- Block, Inc., United States
- Head office
- 5th Floor, Block C, One Park Place, Hatch Street, Dublin 2 Dublin, Ireland (registered office: 70 Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin 2, D02 R296, Ireland)
- Company register
- CRO (Ireland) 583287
Online
- Websites & references
- squareup.com ↗
squareup.com/fr/fr ↗ France country site
squareup.com/es/es ↗ Spain country site
developer.squareup.com ↗ developer docs
ie.issquareup.com ↗ status page
squareup.com/help/ie/en ↗ support centre
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗
Sources · 8 pages consulted
- squareup.com/ie/en/legal/general/payment
- squareup.com/help/ie/en/article/8601-customer-care-regulations
- squareup.com/ie/en
- lb.lt/en/sfi-financial-market-participants/squareup-international-limited
- squareup.com/fr/fr/legal/general/payment-archive-europe
- squareup.com/es/es/legal/general/payment-archive-europe
- squareup.com/us/en/press/square-announces-official-launch-in-spain-after-successful-early-access-progr
- cash.app/legal/ie/en-ie/tos
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The Central Bank of Ireland authorises the firm as an electronic money institution (reference C184117) under the European Union (Payment Services) Regulations 2018. It serves Spain under the freedom to provide services without a branch. The Bank of Lithuania also lists it as an EU e-money institution providing services there without a branch.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bank of Ireland Ireland | Electronic Money Institution | C184117 | In its own name | Active | squareup.com ↗ |
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
- Insurance or guaranteeThe firm says it protects customer funds with an insurance policy that pays out if it becomes insolvent. Its payment terms also allow it to hold funds in segregated pooled accounts at authorised credit institutions.
- Payment schemes and card networks
- Visa Access not stated squareup.com ↗
Mastercard Access not stated squareup.com ↗
American Express Access not stated squareup.com ↗
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 acquires Visa, Mastercard and American Express card payments for businesses and pays the proceeds in euros to bank accounts in the SEPA area. It also sells point-of-sale software and hardware, which are not regulated.
It serves business customers in Ireland, France and Spain under its Irish authorisation, with each country's terms limiting use to that country.
- Sells to
- Small businesses · Enterprises
- Serves customers in 3 countries
- Ireland · France · Spain
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
Head-office record
- BIC
- SQILIE22XXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- SQILBank
- IECountry · Ireland
- 22Location · reverse billing
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 549300S1PT3M9JIUWL37
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- Licence no. · EBA-PSD2
- C184117
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.Register entry: Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name and country only.
- Register-entry ID
- b48ec1ce0983
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.
- Register licences
- 1 entry on 1 register
- Activities
- Payment services
- Card acquiring
- E-money / stored value
- Licensed in
- Ireland
- Country · region
- Ireland · Europe & Central Asia
- Banking supervision
- Not on the ECB's list of supervised entities as of 2026-07-01
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
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
- Block, Inc. · United States549300OHIIUWSTIZME52 ↗
The Block, Inc. group has 4 institutions in the directory, in 4 countries: all hold a BIC.
Including Squareup Europe LTD, Block Inc., Square Au Pty Limited.
See the Block, Inc. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- 70 SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN IRELAND
- Operational address
- 70 SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN DUBLIN 2 IRELAND
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>SQILIE22XXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300S1PT3M9JIUWL37</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>SQILIE22XXX</BICFI>
<LEI>549300S1PT3M9JIUWL37</LEI>
<Nm>SQUAREUP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>DUBLIN</TwnNm>
<Ctry>IE</Ctry>
<AdrLine>70 SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
Every value comes from a public source, such as Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory, GLEIF or the OFAC and EU sanctions lists. Most sources are matched on a BIC or an LEI, not on a name.
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Register entries are not screened against sanctions lists. The sanctions facts on this page cover the BIC and its LEI only.
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 →Credits for this page
- EBA PSD2 Register—European Banking Authority (EBA) · register ↗ 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.
- European registers—Source: European Central Bank (ECB), list of monetary financial institutions and list of institutions subject to minimum reserves. Matched on LEI by Elucidate.
- Images—logos and photos from Wikimedia Commons (credited with their author and licence) or from the institution's own website, where Wikimedia has none. Elucidate keeps a copy of each; the links lead to the source and the original image. Logo: squareup.com (official website).
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