Trust Payments + Shuttle

Trust Payments is a UK-headquartered payment technology company that provides acquiring, processing, and gateway services across the United Kingdom and European Union. With its own acquiring licenses in the UK and EU, Trust Payments offers direct local processing that avoids the cross-border interchange penalties that platforms face when routing European transactions through non-European acquirers. The company has built particular expertise in sectors that many processors avoid, including travel, gaming, and other verticals classified as higher risk, making it a valuable processing partner for platforms operating in regulated or complex industries. Trust Payments also provides native Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and PSD2 compliance, handling the 3D Secure 2.0 flows required for European card transactions.

Shuttle integrates with Trust Payments to give platforms access to specialist European acquiring within a multi-PSP framework. Through Shuttle’s Embedded Payments, platforms can put their UK and EU merchants on Trust Payments for local acquiring while merchants elsewhere use different processors. This is particularly impactful for authorization rates: European card transactions processed by a local acquirer like Trust Payments can see higher approval rates than the same transactions routed cross-border. Shuttle’s Voice Checkout can take phone payments for merchants configured on Trust Payments. Payment links run through Trust Payments for the merchants configured against it.

For platforms expanding into or already operating in the UK and EU, adding Trust Payments through Shuttle provides a performance advantage. Trust Payments manages the evolving regulatory requirements of European payments, such as SCA exemptions, PSD2 reporting, and open banking. Through Shuttle, platforms can put their European merchants on Trust Payments and merchants elsewhere on a global processor, achieving both local optimization and worldwide coverage through a single integration. This dual-processor strategy is especially relevant post-Brexit, where UK and EU acquiring have diverged and optimal coverage often requires separate acquiring relationships in each jurisdiction.