Caxton FX

Caxton FX is a UK-based foreign exchange, international payments and prepaid card provider based at Portland House in Westminster, London, England. It is a registered money service business with HM Revenue and Customs and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

History

The company was founded in 2002 by Rupert Lee-Browne a management consultant for financial and media groups with a background in IT and media start up companies.

The company focuses on three main services: foreign exchange deals, an online FastPay currency transfer service and three different pre-paid currency cards. The company also provides analysis, reports and forecasts on foreign currency markets and international and national economies.

In 2007, Caxton FX launched euro and US dollar currency cards and in 2009 launched a Global Traveller card.

In September 2011, Caxton FX issued four year non-transferable company bonds to raise £4m of working capital. The bonds were offered to retail investors as a means of raising funds and as an alternative to a bank loan for the company.

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William Caxton

William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer, and printer. He is thought to be the first English person to work as a printer and the first to introduce a printing press into England, which he did in 1476. He was also the first English retailer of printed books; his London contemporaries in the trade were all Flemish, German, or French. In 2002, he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll.

Biography

Early life

William Caxton's parentage is uncertain. His date of birth is unknown, but records place it in the region of 1415–1424, based on the fact that his apprenticeship fees were paid in 1438. Caxton would have been 14 at the date of apprenticeship, but masters often paid the fees late. In the preface to his first printed work The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, he claims to have been born and educated in the Weald of Kent. Oral tradition in Hadlow claims that Caxton was born there; the same with Tenterden. One of the manors of Hadlow was Caustons, owned by the Caxton (De Causton) family. A house in Hadlow reputed to be the birthplace of William Caxton was dismantled in 1436 and incorporated into a larger house rebuilt in Forest Row, East Sussex. Further evidence for Hadlow is that various place names nearby are frequently mentioned by Caxton.