i-payout Expands U.S. Licensing and Advances European EMI Strategy

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 16, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- i-payout, a global provider of payment and payout technology, has expanded its U.S. money transmitter licensing footprint and is advancing its strategy to obtain a European Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license. The company's efforts are aimed at increasing control over payment flows, reducing reliance on intermediary relationships, and broadening the payment services it can support.

Founded in 2007, i-payout operates in a range of industries, including marketplaces, the gig economy and freelance workforce, gaming and esports, affiliate marketing, direct selling, insurance, clinical research, market research, refunds and reimbursements, and other high-volume payment programs. The company's technology combines payment orchestration, recipient onboarding, identity verification, compliance capabilities, APIs, digital wallets, and program-management tools within a unified enterprise payment environment.

As part of its U.S. regulatory strategy, i-payout has received approval from the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico for its Money Services Business license. This approval further expands the company's regulated U.S. footprint. i-payout is working toward completing its required U.S. licensing coverage by the end of 2027, with the goal of increasing the number of markets it can support directly and providing greater flexibility in how payment services are delivered to enterprise customers.

The company's European EMI strategy is intended to strengthen its ability to support a wider range of regulated payment services across multiple European markets and further enhance its ability to serve enterprise customers with international payment requirements. i-payout's licensing initiative is part of its broader international expansion strategy, aiming to give customers broader reach, greater control over payment delivery, more payment capabilities, and an increasingly unified infrastructure for managing payouts at scale.

For businesses managing large recipient populations across multiple countries, i-payout's infrastructure is designed to provide multiple ways to deliver funds, including local bank payments, virtual and physical cards, digital wallets, real-time payment capabilities, and other alternative payment methods, depending on market availability and program requirements. The company is also investing in technology to strengthen risk management, transaction monitoring, and financial crime compliance, implementing Hawk's AI-powered financial crime technology to enhance transaction monitoring and risk-assessment capabilities.

Eddie Gonzalez, Founder and CEO of i-payout, stated, "For nearly two decades, i-payout has been building technology that helps companies move money efficiently around the world. Our customers include businesses that may need to pay thousands or even millions of people across different markets. Expanding our U.S. money transmitter licensing footprint gives us greater control over the infrastructure supporting those payments and positions us to provide our customers with more capabilities as their businesses grow."

The company's strategy combines regulatory infrastructure, payment technology, compliance controls, and multiple payout methods within a configurable enterprise platform designed to help businesses move money to recipients domestically and internationally. By expanding its licensing and regulatory footprint, i-payout aims to support increasingly complex payment programs and provide a more direct, efficient, and scalable global payments infrastructure.