Hotwire wins new financial technology briefs

Hotwire has announced that its financial technology practice has won a series of new contracts in the currency and payments sector.

The firm has been hired to conduct PR campaigns for The Currency Cloud, WorldRemit, Kantox and CurrencyTransfer.com, a group of growing European payments businesses that are pursuing future expansion, reports Gorkana.

WorldRemit is an online money transfer company that allows funds to be sent to more than 100 countries, while The Currency Cloud delivers international payments as a cloud-based service. Meanwhile, Kantox is a peer-to-peer foreign currency exchange for the business community.

The agency will aim to deliver global financial services PR campaigns for these clients with the support of its international offices.

Alex MacLaverty, UK group managing director at Hotwire, said: "We are now a core part of the rapidly expanding London FinTech centre and we're incredibly excited to work with these businesses and maximise their potential."

This comes after Hotwire came second in a list of the top tech PR agencies in the UK compiled by PRWeek last year.