Hamilton is building a focused B2B payments business for SMEs and mid-sized companies across Central Europe, with a long-term objective of operating through its own Polish payment institution structure.
Hamilton Payment Services PLC is a UK public limited company building a cross-border B2B payments business focused on international payments, FX execution and treasury-related corporate solutions for SMEs and mid-sized businesses across Central Europe.
Many SMEs across Central Europe still rely on traditional banks for international payments and FX conversion despite inefficient pricing, high transaction costs, slow onboarding and outdated operating processes.
This creates a clear opportunity for a more efficient, specialist B2B payments model combining lower cost, better execution and a modern client experience.
Hamilton is building a focused B2B platform for:
The business is being developed around a disciplined, capital-efficient model: until its own licence is obtained, Hamilton operates through an advisory and execution-structuring approach supported by established regulated payment partners.
Led by a founder with nearly 30 years of FX and payments experience across brokerage, payment intermediation and treasury-related corporate advisory.
Designed around pre-licence minimum burn logic and milestone-based deployment of capital.
Built around a Polish payment institution route within the European Union and a regional scaling logic.
Hamilton is led by Imre Uzonyi, an FX and payments specialist with nearly 30 years of market experience. Since the late 1990s, he has worked across FX brokerage, payment intermediation and treasury-related corporate advisory.
Through his existing partner ecosystem and affiliated intermediary activity, hundreds of clients have already been onboarded historically and more than 40,000 transactions have been executed. This provides Hamilton with unusually strong founder-market fit and a highly practical go-to-market starting point.
The structure is intended to preserve strategic flexibility for investors while locating the future licence in an EU jurisdiction suitable for passportable payment services and regional scale.
UK holding and investor-facing entity.
Future regulated payment institution entity intended to support regional scale within the EU framework.
Hamilton is currently focused on its pre-licence build phase, including regulatory preparation, legal and compliance work, minimum operational build-out and fundraising for the next key milestone.
The current funding objective is a pre-licence bridge round designed to move the business through the most important value-inflection points on the path toward licensing and scale.