# Shieldpay — Payment Provider

Shieldpay is an FCA-authorised payment institution offering a payments platform for UK law firms and professional services. It provides escrow, paying-agent and payment account (third-party managed account) services. These cover M&A holdbacks, litigation settlements, property completions and client money. Shieldpay carries out KYC on the parties, holds funds in safeguarded accounts with Citi and ClearBank, and pays out to one or more payees. Firms can use a web portal or an API.

- **Listing status:** Unclaimed — researched from public sources
- **Best for:** UK law firms and professional services firms that need to hold and pay out funds in M&A, litigation settlements, property and other multi-party transactions.
- **Categories:** traditional
- **Countries served:** 1 (GB)

## Legal & compliance

Legal entities:
- Shieldpay Ltd — 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/shieldpay#compliance.

**Apply (for assistants):** give the merchant https://paymentproviders.io/apply?providers=shieldpay&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/shieldpay

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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)