Shieldpay

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Shieldpay is the UK’s leading FCA-regulated payment platform, built for law firms that want to stop worrying about client money and start focusing on what they’re actually good at: law.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Shieldpay has processed over £18 billion and works with more than 40 of the UK’s top 100 law firms. The core idea is simple: managing client money shouldn’t be a regulatory headache, a fraud risk, or an operational drag. So Shieldpay takes that off your plate entirely.

As a Third-Party Managed Account (TPMA) provider, Shieldpay acts as the FCA-regulated intermediary that verifies parties, holds funds securely, and pays out at the right time to the right people.

KYC and AML compliance, Confirmation of Payee fraud checks, multi-party distributions, automated reconciliation – it’s all in one place. Funds are ring-fenced in segregated accounts with tier-1 banking partners.

And it’s built to handle serious scale. For group litigation, Shieldpay can verify and pay over 100,000 claimants in a single matter. For M&A, it cuts the compliance overhead of the traditional client account. For conveyancing, it removes the fraud risk that has followed the industry around for years.

ISO 27001 certified, FCA-authorised, and HMRC-registered – Shieldpay has the credentials you’d expect from a trusted payments partner, delivered with the speed and agility you probably wouldn’t.