Australia · Money service business
Worldremit PTY LTD
WorldRemit Pty Ltd is an Australian proprietary company based in Sydney. AUSTRAC registers it as a remittance provider under registration number IND100272713-001. It is part of the Zepz group, and its direct parent is WorldRemit Ltd of the United Kingdom. It serves consumers in Australia who send money abroad through the WorldRemit app and website, and in November 2025 AUSTRAC directed it to appoint an external auditor.
Licences and registrations
Held by Worldremit PTY LTD (LEI 254900WXVI7N2NINDY20). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 24 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
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| Remittance Sector Register (RSR)AUSTRAC | Independent remittance dealer or remittance affiliate (not distinguished on public register)Money Transmitter / Remittance | Not published by the register | Australia | Active | — | — |
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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
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
WorldRemit Ltd
Firm type
Money remittance
Trades as WorldRemit
- Ownership
- According to its GLEIF record, WorldRemit Ltd of the United Kingdom is both the direct and the ultimate accounting parent of the firm, within the group that trades as Zepz.
- Direct parent
- WorldRemit Ltd, United Kingdom
- Head office
- Level 11, 64 York Street, 2000 Sydney, Australia (registered office: Level 3, 60 Martin Place, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia)
- Company register
- ABN 23 154 871 011
Online
- Websites & references
- worldremit.com ↗
zepz.io ↗ group website (Zepz)
worldremit.com/en ↗ international WorldRemit site
Wikipedia ↗ group article - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · Facebook ↗ · Instagram ↗ · YouTube ↗
- Apps
- App Store ↗ · Google Play ↗
Sources · 13 pages consulted
- worldremit.com/en-au
- assets.ctfassets.net/sb7j5o4oxtgv/5PwqBHr6FU5SU5dG3WP5oh/fba1537205a93bd954081b381683a861/230426_WRTermsAU.pdf
- worldremit.com/en-au/about-us/terms-and-conditions
- worldremit.com/en-au/about-us/keeping-your-money-safe
- worldremit.com/en-au/worldremit-group
- worldremit.com/en-au/about-us/privacy-policy
- austrac.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release/payment-platforms-warned-about-child-sexual-exploitation-ris
- austrac.gov.au/about-us/record-our-actions/written-notices-appoint-external-auditor
- austrac.gov.au/new-and-media/news/austrac-directs-audit-payment-platform-over-amlctf-concerns
- abc.net.au/news/2025-11-19/child-sexual-exploitation-crackdown-online-payments-austrac/106018652
- zepz.io/press/zepz-appoints-barrie-morris-as-interim-ceo-as-mark-lenhard-steps-down/
- zepz.io/
- prnewswire.com/news-releases/fireblocks-and-zepz-join-forces-to-scale-stablecoin-remittance-adoption-for
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
AUSTRAC registers the firm on the Remittance Sector Register as a remittance provider, registration number IND100272713-001. The firm's website discloses no other Australian licence.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) Australia | Remittance Sector Register registration (remittance services) | IND100272713-001 | In its own name | Active | worldremit.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
- Segregated safeguarding accountsThe firm says it keeps customer money that has not yet been paid out in a special account that holds only customers' money. It does not name the bank that holds this account.
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
Customers in Australia send money abroad to over 130 countries. Recipients can be paid by bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile money or airtime top-up, and customers pay by bank deposit, debit card or credit card.
The firm is the WorldRemit contracting entity for customers who ordinarily live in Australia, and it sends money to over 130 countries.
- Payment volume
- USD 17bnmoney transferred for customers (Zepz group, WorldRemit and Sendwave brands)
- Sells to
- Consumers
- Serves customers in
- Australia
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Barrie Morris Interim Chief Executive Officer, Zepz (group level)
- Chair
- Melissa Birge Chair of the Zepz Board of Directors (group level)
Recent events 1 enforcement or investigation item
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
Zepz, the firm's group, announced that CEO Mark Lenhard would step down and appointed CFO Barrie Morris as Interim Chief Executive Officer.
zepz.io ↗ -
Enforcement
AUSTRAC directed the firm to appoint an external auditor after a supervisory campaign on payment platforms and child sexual exploitation risks.
austrac.gov.au ↗
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
- 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
- a3cf41ef2874
Profile
- Type
- Money service businessRemittance, currency exchange, cheque cashing and money orders. Usually registered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor rather than licensed prudentially. Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- AML registration onlyRegistered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor (FinCEN, FINTRAC, HMRC, AUSTRAC, Hong Kong Customs…) without a prudential licence.
- Main licence class
- Money Transmitter / Remittance
- Activities
- Money remittance
- Licensed in
- Australia · East Asia & Pacific
- First registered
- Not published
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
- Worldremit Ltd. · United Kingdom213800BO4SXT9R8PHV43 ↗
The Worldremit Ltd. group has 3 institutions in the directory, in 3 countries: 1 holds a BIC and 2 do not.
Including WorldRemit Belgium, Worldremit LTD.
See the Worldremit Ltd. group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Level 11/64 York St, Sydney, 2000
- Country
- Australia
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>254900WXVI7N2NINDY20</LEI>
<Nm>WORLDREMIT PTY LTD</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>2000</PstCd>
<TwnNm>Sydney</TwnNm>
<Ctry>AU</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Level 11/64 York St</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
- Remittance Sector Register (RSR)—Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) · source ↗ as at 24 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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