Terms and Conditions (12.01.24 v1.2)

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. THIS IS PART OF A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT THAT WILL AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

1. Parties and Agreement

1.1. The agreement (comprising the payment order form (the “Order”) and these terms and conditions (“T&C”)) is between you and Ria Financial Services Limited whose company registration number is 4263192 and whose registered office is situated at Part 7th Floor, North Block, 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU (“RIA”) (hereinafter “RIA”, “we”, “our”, or “us”). RIA is acting as the agent of Euronet Payment Services Limited (“EPS”) whose company registration number is 6975932 and whose registered office is Part 7th Floor, North Block, 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the “UK”). EPS is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) of the UK under the Regulations (as defined at clause 1.7 below) as recorded on the FCA register under register number 504630.

1.2. Definitions not provided in these T&C are set out in the Order.

1.3. You agree that your agreement with RIA comprises the Order and these T&C, between you and RIA.

1.4. The Service. RIA will provide you with the RIA money transfer service (a money remittance service) (the “Service”) through its network of authorised representatives (the “Correspondents”) to transfer funds (the “Transfer”) to your chosen recipient (the “Beneficiary”).  You are required to inform the Beneficiary about the Transfer and the relevant details included in the Order.

1.5. Charges. The charges and fees you have agreed to pay in relation to the Transfer are set out in the Order.  Please be advised that your Beneficiary’s receiving bank may impose fees on a Transfer, which are the sole responsibility of you or the Beneficiary (as the case may be).

1.6. Full and accurate information.  You confirm that you have provided RIA with full and accurate information to the best of your knowledge as required for the purposes of the Service and / or requested by RIA.  You acknowledge that failure to provide full and accurate information may result in RIA not carrying out the Transfer to the Beneficiary.

1.7. Regulations.  The Payment Services Regulations 2017.

1. Transfer Information

2.1. The Transfer will normally be paid to a Beneficiary in cash but may, if so requested by you and where available, be paid to a Beneficiary’s bank account (an “Account”).

2.2. A Transfer will normally be available for collection by the Beneficiary during the hours of operation at the selected Correspondent’s location. The address and hours of operation of Correspondents locations in your or the Beneficiary’s area are available from RIA Customer Services (contact details are set out in Clause 12). However, Transfers may be subject to delay due to availability of funds at the relevant Correspondent location, conditions in the Beneficiary’s destination country or regulatory requirements. RIA makes no representation as to when the Transfer will be available for collection by the Beneficiary, except to the extent set out in Clause 6.

2.3. If you have requested delivery to an Account, RIA makes no representation as to when the bank maintaining the Account will credit the Account with the funds comprising the Transfer, except to the extent set out in Clause 6.

2.4. Any requests for Transfers received by a Correspondent at or after 15:00 GMT on a Business Day will be treated as requests received on the next Business Day. For the purposes of these T&C, a “Business Day” is a day on which the Correspondent providing the Service to you is open for business excluding weekends and bank holidays.

2.5. The Transfer does not constitute a deposit or electronic money. Neither you nor the Beneficiary holds a payment account with RIA.

2.6. We may refuse to perform a Transfer at any time for any reason. Where we refuse to perform a Transfer, unless it is unlawful for us to do so, we will tell you, and if possible we will let you know our reasons for our refusal and if the refusal is due to any factual errors, we will tell you what these are and how to correct them. We will have no liability to you for failure to perform or incorrect performance of a Transfer where the reason for this was our refusal to proceed with that Transfer or any part of it.

2.7. Our total liability to you in connection with a Transfer is limited to the full amount of the Transfer together with any charges for which you may be responsible and any interest which you may be required to pay as a consequence of any non-performance or incorrect performance by us of the Transfer.

2.8. In the event that you have at any time selected digital delivery of your receipt, you can change this option to receive your receipt in paper form at the time of submitting an Individual Payment Order.

1. Identification

3.1. You may be required to present valid identification (“ID”) in order to receive the Services from RIA and complete a Transfer. From time to time, RIA may require you to present updated and/or further documentation and/or information in order to receive the Services from RIA and complete a Transfer and enable RIA to complete its anti-money laundering and compliance process. Failure to provide such information as RIA may from time to time require from you (acting reasonably) and in all cases to RIA’s reasonable satisfaction may result in RIA not supplying the Services or carrying out the Transfer(s).

1. Foreign Exchange

4.1. You may request that the Correspondent provides you with information on the currency/currencies available in the Beneficiary’s destination country.

4.2. In addition to the RIA fees applicable to the Transfer, where you request a currency conversion RIA will apply a currency exchange rate (the “Exchange Rate”) to convert the funds comprising the Transfer to the currency of the Beneficiary’s destination country as set out on the Order.

4.3. Any monies arising from the difference (if any) between the Exchange Rate and the exchange rate received by RIA will be kept by RIA and/or its Correspondents.

4.4. If at the time of collection of the Transfer the Beneficiary requests that the Transfer is paid out in a different currency to the one specified by you and stated in the Order, the Correspondent may charge an additional fee. This exchange is a separate transaction under separate terms between the Beneficiary and the Correspondent and does not form part of the Service or your agreement with RIA.

1. Refund/cancellation information

5.1. If you wish to cancel a Transfer, you must contact RIA or the RIA agent location where you placed the Transfer. Following such a cancellation request, and unless payment to the Beneficiary has already been made (whether in cash or to an Account) RIA shall, within 15 Business Days, refund to you the amount to be transferred pursuant to the Transfer and the fee for the Transfer less applicable fees and service charges related to the cancellation (if any) on the condition that you provide RIA with a copy of (i) the valid Order and (ii) present and valid ID. An Order shall only be valid if the corresponding transaction is processed through RIA’s computerised system and contains the computer generated imprint of the Correspondent’s name and address and the correct order number. A Transfer may not be cancelled or refunded to you once the funds have been paid to the Beneficiary.

5.2. If a Transfer is not paid to a Beneficiary within 21 or 30 days (depending on the relevant RIA Correspondent involved in the Transfer), RIA will automatically cancel the Transfer and notify you accordingly. Thereafter, the funds comprising the Transfer will not be available for collection by the Beneficiary and will be held by RIA on trust and you should contact RIA to arrange collection.

1. Transfers and the payment services regulations

This clause 6 (and its sub-clauses) explains certain important rights and obligations, including our liability to you, under the Regulations which apply to any Transfer governed by the Regulations which you ask us to perform for you. A Transfer will be governed by the Regulations where the Beneficiary is located within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and it is carried out in either euro, sterling or a currency of another EEA state that has not adopted the euro as its currency. The EEA comprises all member states of the European Union, together with Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein.

6.1. Failure to perform or incorrect performance of a Transfer

6.1.1. We may be liable to you under the Regulations where we fail to perform or incorrectly perform any Transfer that you authorised us to perform.

6.1.2. Where you believe we may have failed to perform or incorrectly performed such a Transfer, you should let us know as soon as possible and, if you request, we will make immediate efforts to investigate the matter and let you know the outcome of our investigation.

6.1.3. Subject to clauses 2.7 and 6.1.4, where we have failed to perform or incorrectly performed such a Transfer, we will without undue delay make good and correct the error and deliver the amount of the unperformed or incorrectly performed Transfer.

6.1.4. You will not be entitled to the remedy mentioned in clause 6.1.3:

(a) if you do not inform us by notice in writing without undue delay (and in any event not later than 13 months after the date on which the incorrect Transfer was performed) on your becoming aware that failure by us to perform a Transfer authorised by you or incorrect performance by us of a Transfer authorised by you may have occurred; or

(b) where we are able to show that the authorised amount was received at the appropriate time by the person to whom you instructed us to send the funds; or

(c) if the failure to perform or incorrect performance was due to you providing us with incomplete or incorrect information or was otherwise due to your fault.

6.2. Where a Transfer is governed by the Regulations, RIA will ensure that, at the latest, a Transfer paid as cash will be available for collection by the Beneficiary or a Transfer to an Account will be credited to the bank maintaining that Account, by the end of the second Business Day after the date of the Transfer.

6.3 Safeguarding. Immediately upon receipt of the funds for the execution of a payment transaction under the Regulations, and regardless of whether such funds are received directly from You or from a different payment service provider (the “Relevant Funds”), RIA will safeguard said Relevant Funds by ensuring that they are covered by a comparable guarantee given by an authorised insurer or an autorised credit institution. Relevant Funds will be safeguarded for as long as they are held by RIA, i.e. until funds are collected by the Beneficiary at destination or are paid out to the Beneficiary’s payment service provider.

 Please, note that Relevant Funds are not protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.

1. Data Protection/RIA SMS Service

7.1. You agree that:

7.1.1. RIA may use information provided by you (for example, your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, occupation, date of birth, and details of the Transfer (including the purpose) and Beneficiary) to provide you with the Service, for RIA’s internal research and customer analysis and for RIA’s legal, compliance and/or regulatory requirements and objectives. This may be for example to conduct compliance transaction analysis and monitoring (RIA may hold and use that information to review transactions which are placed "on hold" as a result of RIA's compliance filters being triggered and that information may be passed to and reviewed by a third party as a result of those filters being triggered);

7.1.2. If you have consented and you have not withdrawn your consent in accordance with clauses 7.2 or 7.3, RIA may use information provided by you to contact you in relation to our services and offers that we think are of interest to you;

7.1.3. RIA may provide the information provided by you to affiliated companies, Correspondents and/or third parties for the purposes set out in (i), which may involve transfer and/or storage of your information outside the EEA. For example, RIA may transfer the information provided by you: (a) to the destination territory of the Beneficiary via the RIA system to facilitate the Transfer and such information may be viewed and otherwise processed by the Correspondent to facilitate the Transfer; and (b) to RIA affiliate storage databases in the United States of America; and

7.1.4. In accordance with RIA’s data retention policy information provided by you and held by RIA may be held by RIA for five (5) years.

Further details of how we process information provided by you in relation to the Service, are available at www.riamoneytransfer.com.

7.2. You may exercise your rights in relation to your information and withdraw your consent to contact you by email at any time by contacting RIA’s Compliance Department at: Part 7th Floor, North Block, 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU.

7.3. Once you have authorised RIA to contact you through the RIA SMS service, this will remain active unless deactivated by you. RIA may use the SMS Service to notify you of details related to the Service and the Transfer and/or for marketing purposes (for example details of our services that we think are of interest to you). You will be solely responsible for any third party charges in relation to the RIA SMS service. To deactivate the RIA SMS service, please contact the location where you registered for the RIA SMS service or email (enclosing a copy of your ID) or telephone RIA Customer Services.

7.4. You confirm that you have requisite authority to give RIA the personal data (for example, name, address and bank account details) of the Beneficiary to enable RIA to facilitate the Transfer. This will include RIA giving this information to the relevant Correspondent (who may be located outside the EEA) for the purposes of the Transfer.

1. Complaints

8.1. We value all our customers and take our obligations seriously. We have established internal procedures for investigating any complaint that may be made against us in relation to any Transfer. In accordance with our complaints procedure, any complaint you may make relating to any Transfer must be made or confirmed to us in writing to RIA’s Compliance Department at 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU.

8.2. If you are still dissatisfied following our response to any complaint, you may have a right to refer your complaint concerning the Transfer to the Financial Ombudsman Service (www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk), post: Financial Ombudsman Services, Exchange Tower, London, E14 9SR; telephone: 0800 023 4567; email: complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

8.3. If you would like further details of our complaints policy relating to Transfers please contact RIA’s Customer Services.

1. Rights of Third Parties

9.1. A person who is not a party to the agreement will not have any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any provision of the agreement.

1. Severability

10.1. In the event any provision (or part provision) of the agreement (whether in the Order or these T&C) is held by any court or authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed not to form part of the agreement, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of the agreement will not be affected.

1. Language, Governing Law & Jurisdiction

11.1. Where RIA provides you with a translation of the English version of the Order or these T&C, you agree that the translation is only for your convenience. The English version of the Order and these T&C are the authoritative versions and will govern the provision of the Service by RIA to you.

11.2. The agreement is to be construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales and any dispute with respect to the agreement is to be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

1. Contact Us

12.1. RIA Customer Services contact details are: telephone: +44 207 4672539; post: Part 7th Floor, North Block, 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 7EU; email: eurocs@riamoneytransfer.com.

Currency exchange terms

Ria Financial Services Limited (Ria) is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 04263192.Registered office: Part 7th Floor, North Block. 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU. Euronet Payment Services Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 06975932.Registered office: Part 7th Floor, North Block. 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU Ria is an authorised agent of Euronet Payment Services Ltd and is a registered with HMRC as a Money Services Business with registration number 12147525.

Terms and Conditions applicable to the currency exchange service of Euronet Payment Services Limited trading as RIA, (hereinafter “RIA”).

The exchange rates used in the transaction and published on the Rate Board displayed in each store offering the service, may be consulted by the Customer (understood as the person who appears on this receipt), Customers also being able to ask for those currencies that are not listed on said Rate Board. In any case, the Customer is duly informed of the applicable exchange rates, commissions and applicable fees, data that, before completing the transaction, that will appear duly reflected on this transaction receipt. Transactions of purchase/sale of foreign currency and purchase of traveller’s checks that individually or in parts exceed the limits established by the regulations in force at any time will require documentation from the Customer to confirm their identity and address, either permanent or temporary in UK (when the document provided shows a foreign address) as well origin of the funds, along with the signed declaration form that will be delivered to RIA duly completed. RIA reserves the right not to provide the Service, and shall not be liable for defective performance, due to the Customer providing incomplete or inaccurate incomplete or inaccurate data provided by the Customer.

Buyback Service:

The Buyback Service shall be limited to the sale of good quality foreign banknotes to RIA, coins being excluded, and may only be requested in person at a RIA Store by a Customer who has carried out a previous Transaction in which he/she has purchased foreign banknotes from RIA paying in GBP. This service is only offered at RIA Stores in UK and cannot be requested online (the Customer can check the list of RIA Stores in UK contacting RIA). At the Customer’s request, RIA shall buy back from the Customer, at any of its UK Stores, between 1% and up to a maximum of 50% of the amount of the foreign banknotes (in good condition and legal tender) itemized on this Transaction which qualify for the Buyback Service and subject to the following conditions: (i) the minimum value of a Transaction qualifying for Buyback is £750.00; (ii) between 3 and 30 calendar days must have elapsed from the date of the receipt, (iii) the Buyback shall be paid in cash (in GBP) at the same exchange rate described on this receipt. The Customer must attend in person at any Ria Store, with the same identification document as the one used for the purchase of the foreign currency and provide the original receipt of the Transaction. This service is only available for customers with a valid ID registered in the system. Only one Buyback transaction may be allowed per Transaction, and RIA may buy back several currencies of the currencies itemized on the Transaction receipt that grants the right to apply for the buyback service RIA shall not charge Customer any commission for the Buyback Service. RIA shall not charge Customer any commission for the Buyback Service.

Privacy:

The Customer, by agreeing to these terms, expressly consents that: (i) any personal data provided during the execution of the service provided by RIA, are subject to treatment by RIA; and (ii) the data is communicated to other companies of the RIA group and to third parties service providers, and such companies may be located within the European Economic Area or in other countries that may not offer a level of protection equivalent to that of said Space, in order to manage this request for the sale of foreign banknotes and comply with RIA’s legal obligations, as detailed on the RIA website (Legal documents (riamoneytransfer.com). The processing of the Customer’s data is necessary for the provision of the foreign banknote service and if said data processing is not consented, the service cannot be provided. The Customer may at any time exercise the rights of access, rectification, opposition, suppression, limitation of treatment and portability, notifying Euronet Payment Services Limited with address at 7th Floor, 55 Baker St. London W1U 7EU, or via email dpo@riamoneytransfer.com under the terms established in the additional information. You can check the additional and detailed information on Data Protection in our Privacy Policy given on the RIA website (Retail Privacy policy (riamoneytransfer.com).

Complaints and Claims:

If you have any questions or wish to make a complaint, you can submit it in person at any RIA Store or contact Customer Service, 0207 467 2539, option 2, RiaUKCE@riamoneytransfer.com, 7th Floor, 55 Baker St. London W1U 7EU and telephone 0207 467 2539, option 2. If the Customer does not agree with the final resolution of the complaint by the Customer Service, the Customer may contact The Financial Ombudsman Service, Exchange Tower, London, E14 9SR