Secure Trading Group has announced that it has taken on a new referral partner within the money remittance industry to help connect the gateway and acquiring arms of the business with ambitious remittance companies.

Vala is a London-based provider of global money transfer software, including a white-labelled remittance system incorporating mobile, web apps and a backend dashboard, a payroll platform allowing businesses to pay overseas staff in their local currency, and an e-wallet platform. 

Vala’s clients will benefit from Secure Trading’s payment gateway, which, with no downtime for the past 18 years, is unrivalled in terms of reliability. ST Group’s merchant acquiring arm, acquiring.com, will provide internationally-flexible merchant services, allowing merchants to transact in over 100 currencies and settle in 14.

They can provide their clients with reliable, trusted payment solutions at a low cost

“We work with remittance companies who require comprehensive, end-to-end payment solutions for their diverse customers,” Tali Av-Zuk of VALA said.

“Secure Trading will provide the high level of customer service and technical support that we are looking for in a payments provider for our remittance software solutions.”  

Craig Brightly, head of sales at Secure Trading added: “Partnerships such as this are beneficial for all parties involved: Vala, as a software provider, ensure that they can provide their clients with reliable, trusted payment solutions at a low cost; Vala’s merchants will benefit from flexible, international payment options; and Secure Trading are introduced to more ambitious businesses in need of payment solutions.”

“Money remittance is an industry that our international merchant solutions can make a huge difference for merchants in,” Ryan Cachia, managing director of acquiring.com said. “We are actively looking for more partners like Vala to work with in the future.”