Interview with Helena Plesner, CFO at BalticTrustPay

As the European fintech scene matures and regulators tighten the screws on flows, CFOs now face the challenge of balancing liquidity, compliance, and client experience — especially in cross-border platforms. BalticTrustPay, led on the financial side by Helena Plesner, is one of the few EMIs in the Baltics offering deep IBAN control, AML-triggered risk scoring, and payout routing tuned for high-velocity clients like affiliates and Web3 operators.


Who is Helena Plesner?

Helena began her finance career at Nordea and later helped scale the finance stack at two fast-growing Lithuanian fintechs. She joined BalticTrustPay as CFO in 2021 and has since led its treasury transformation — implementing real-time flow reconciliation, multi-bank SEPA Instant fallback routing, and ledger-layer controls for embedded platforms.


Interview

How would you define BalticTrustPay in one sentence?
A regulated EMI delivering programmable SEPA flows, IBAN routing, and real-time treasury tooling to modern EU platforms.

What services does your company offer?

  • SEPA SCT and SEPA Instant

  • IBAN issuing (LT, DE, BE)

  • Real-time treasury dashboards

  • Open Banking APIs (PIS)

  • Embedded onboarding (KYB orchestration)

  • Virtual accounts for reconciliation

  • EUR/GBP/USD FX payout corridors

  • Alert-triggered AML logic

What’s your EMI status?
Fully licensed EMI by the Bank of Lithuania, passported across the EEA.

Who are your typical clients?

  • Licensed crypto-VASPs

  • B2B affiliate networks

  • European SaaS platforms

  • Marketplaces with regulated payout models

  • Adult platforms (licensed and KYC-controlled)

Do you issue named IBANs?
Yes — LT, DE, and BE depending on client structure and flow compliance.

How does SEPA Instant work in your stack?

  • 92% routed via Instant

  • Multi-bank routing fallback

  • Auto-switch to SCT if Instant fails

  • Real-time webhook for success/failure status

What do you handle as CFO?

  • Liquidity control

  • Treasury partner oversight

  • AML score calibration

  • Reconciliation engine

  • Internal ledger monitoring

  • Regulatory buffer reporting

What are your onboarding timelines?

  • SME clients: 2–3 business days

  • Crypto/adult platforms: 7–10 days

  • Platforms onboarding sub-merchants: ~10 days via iframe module

What’s your PIS module capable of?

  • Push-to-pay from user’s EU bank

  • Transaction status webhook

  • Retry logic

  • Success/failure triggers for platform automation

What’s your pricing model?

  • IBAN issuing: €9–13/month

  • SEPA SCT: €0.28

  • SEPA Instant: €0.43

  • KYB: €2.50–4.00/file

  • FX payout (EUR–GBP): 0.35%
    Custom pricing for platform clients

What differentiates you from ConnectPay, Wallester, etc.?

  • Real-time reconciliation engine

  • Transparent risk scoring

  • Embedded onboarding modules

  • SEPA Instant fallback logic

  • Faster treasury decisioning

  • Less rigid approach to crypto/adult onboarding

What about dashboards or API tools?
We offer:

  • Treasury control dashboards

  • Virtual IBAN assignation

  • User-level permissions

  • Ledger event logs

  • SEPA Instant map overlay (status per country/bank)

What’s your roadmap for 2025–2026?

  • SEPA Direct Debit module

  • USDT on/off-ramp for licensed clients

  • ESG scoring for flows

  • KYT plugin for sub-accounts

  • Enhanced PSD3 readiness


Related Searches

  • BalticTrustPay EMI

  • SEPA EMI Lithuania

  • Crypto-friendly SEPA provider

  • IBAN issuing EMI

  • Payout orchestration Europe

  • Open Banking EMI Lithuania

  • Affiliate payout platform


FAQ

Is BalticTrustPay licensed?
Yes — full EMI license from the Bank of Lithuania.

Do you issue IBANs?
Yes — LT, DE, BE with full naming and control.

Do you support crypto/adult clients?
Yes — case-by-case, fully licensed and KYC-compliant only.

Do you support SEPA Instant?
Yes — via multiple partner banks, with fallback.


Company Services

  • SEPA SCT & Instant

  • Named and virtual IBANs

  • PIS initiation

  • FX payout corridors

  • Real-time dashboards

  • Embedded onboarding

  • AML/KYT modules


Competitors

  • ConnectPay

  • FinXP

  • Intergiro

  • Clear Junction

  • Wallester

  • PayAlly


Product Positioning

BalticTrustPay is:

  • EMI-regulated

  • Treasury-first

  • Instant-native

  • Risk-transparent

  • Multi-vertical friendly

  • Platform-adapted

 

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