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Fintech company operating a wholesale FX platform for banks, payment companies, and NGOs, focused on emerging market currencies.
Based in London, Abbey Cross is a financial technology company operating a wholesale foreign exchange and cross-border payments platform focused exclusively on emerging market currencies. The company provides a centralized B2B marketplace, known as the ABX Sync platform, which connects commercial banks, money services businesses, and NGOs directly to emerging market liquidity providers. By delivering comprehensive market data and routing transactions, this infrastructure is designed to significantly improve price transparency, reduce costs, and enhance execution efficiency for international payments. The enterprise has raised approximately $8.97 million in total venture capital, including a $6.5 million seed round led by Valar Ventures, with participation from notable institutional investors like BNY Mellon, Third Prime, and Gaingels. Abbey Cross was founded in 2021 by Mike Robertson and Clinton Stanton to remove friction from global currency markets and provide deeper liquidity.
Abbey Cross has raised $18.0M across 4 funding rounds.
Abbey Cross has raised $18.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Abbey Cross has raised $18.0M in total across 4 funding rounds.
Abbey Cross's investors include James Fitzgerald, Asaf Snir, Paul Grossinger, Keith Hamlin, Iluminar Ventures, Magma Partners, Morpheus Ventures, Valar Ventures, Cornelius Boersch, Luis Galvez Y, Doug Atkin, Third Prime.
Abbey Cross has raised $18.0M across 4 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $6.5M Seed in March 2024.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2024 | $6.5M Seed | James Fitzgerald | Asaf Snir, Paul Grossinger, Keith Hamlin | Announced |
| Dec 1, 2023 | $7M Seed | — | Iluminar Ventures, Magma Partners, Morpheus Ventures, Valar Ventures, Cornelius Boersch, Luis Galvez Y | Announced |
| Aug 19, 2022 | $2.5M Pre Seed | Keith Hamlin | Doug Atkin | Announced |
| Mar 1, 2022 | $2M Seed | — | Third Prime, Todd Rovak | Announced |
AbbeyCross is a London-based fintech company founded in 2021 that builds the ABX Platform, a wholesale FX payment network focused on emerging market (EM) currencies.[1][2][4][6] It serves global banks, money service businesses (MSBs), NGOs, and EM payment providers by solving inefficiencies in cross-border FX payments, such as high costs, slow speeds, opacity, legacy tech, fragmented regulations, and lack of market standards.[1][2][4] The platform offers ABX Studio for transparent EM FX market data, pricing benchmarks, and analytics, and ABX Sync for executing FX trades and routing payments via a single API connection to multiple partners, covering 140+ currencies, 200+ countries, and 3000+ payout routes.[2][4][6] Recent momentum includes partnerships like Corpay (2024), product launches with Chronicle for faster development, and expansions in EM liquidity and transparency.[3][5]
AbbeyCross was co-founded in 2021 by Mike Robertson (CEO) and Adrian Brown (COO), both with deep expertise in banking and fintech from roles at major institutions like RBS, BNP Paribas, and Buckzy Payments.[1][2] Robertson brings 20+ years in transactional banking and an MBA from Hult, while Brown has 25 years in legal, banking, and fintech, including heading FX products and commercialization.[1] The idea emerged from their firsthand frustrations inside large banks moving money to emerging markets, where operational complexities created a "broken wholesale market."[1][3] After consulting peers, they built a collaborative platform on modern infrastructure; early traction involved pilot banks, tech vendors like Chronicle for a proof-of-concept, and phased 2024 launches of ABX features.[1][3]
AbbeyCross rides the cross-border payments boom, fueled by rising EM demand, innovations in FX infrastructure, and needs for deeper liquidity amid regulatory scrutiny.[1][4][5] Timing aligns with post-2020 fintech shifts toward transparency and efficiency, countering "intolerable" legacy issues in a market growing via stablecoins and new rails.[3][5][6] Favorable forces include fragmented EM providers seeking orchestration and banks/NGOs demanding resilience; AbbeyCross influences the ecosystem by harmonizing standards, fostering networks (e.g., Corpay integration), and positioning as the "global centre of gravity" for EM FX payments.[4][5]
AbbeyCross is poised to dominate EM FX infrastructure through network effects, with 2024 launches signaling strong growth via more partners and stablecoin support.[3][5][6] Trends like regulatory pushes for pricing transparency, EM digitization, and programmable payments will amplify its edge, potentially expanding to full orchestration platforms.[1][4] Its influence may evolve from niche fixer to essential hub, enabling seamless global flows—just as its founders envisioned from bank trenches.