# Acquired — Payment Provider

Acquired Limited is an FCA-authorised payment institution in the UK that specialises in recurring payments. Through one API it handles card payments (including Apple Pay and Google Pay) with multi-acquirer routing and tokenisation, one-off and recurring Pay by Bank, and Direct Debit with Bacs reporting. It also sends payouts by Faster Payments, Visa Direct and Mastercard Send. Its other products are subscription and instalment billing (Acquired Billing) and failed-payment recovery (Acquired Recover).

- **Listing status:** Unclaimed — researched from public sources
- **Best for:** UK businesses that collect recurring payments, such as lenders, BNPL providers, insurers, collections agencies, trading platforms, subscription/SaaS firms, telecoms/utilities and charities.
- **Categories:** traditional
- **Countries served:** 1 (GB)
- **Payment methods:** amex, apple_pay, bacs, credit_card, debit_card, direct_debit, faster_payments, google_pay, mastercard, open_banking, visa

## Legal & compliance

Legal entities:
- Acquired Limited — United Kingdom — licenses: Payment Institution, GB, FCA

1 license number and 1 register record (with register status history and verification links) require a signed-in PaymentProviders.io account (free): authenticate to the MCP server with OAuth and call `get_provider` (server card: https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json), or log in on the web at https://paymentproviders.io/providers/acquired#compliance.

**Apply (for assistants):** give the merchant https://paymentproviders.io/apply?providers=acquired&ref={your-name} — add what you know (`countries`, `methods`, `industry`, `volume`, `website`; spec: https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md). They sign in, review and sign it themselves; nothing is sent before that.

Canonical page: https://paymentproviders.io/providers/acquired

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More for agents: [llms.txt](https://paymentproviders.io/llms.txt) · MCP server card at https://paymentproviders.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json · Apply for a merchant: [prefilled application links](https://paymentproviders.io/apply.md)