Earthport (AIM: EPO.L), the leading payment network for cross border transactions, has been selected by Citizens Financial Group, Inc (“Citizens”), to provide cross-border payments services.

Citizens is the thirteenth largest bank in the United States and operates more than 1,200 branches across 11 states under the Citizens Bank brand. Earthport has been signed by Citizens to deliver a global payment solution for Citizens customer base, transforming the way in which its customers send payments cross-border.

Earthport customers – which now include Citizens Financial Group - access the worlds’ largest global bank payments network via a single connection to deliver payments to any beneficiary, at any bank, anywhere in the world. As a highly regulated and globally compliant payment platform, Earthport’s market leading suite of highly sophisticated and flexible API’s enable real-time beneficiary account validation; FX and treasury management tools and reporting and analytics.