13 Facts About Skrill

Skrill is a digital wallet provider established in 2001 which offers a range of online payment and money transfer services.

Since launch, Skrill has expanded to operate in more than 120 countries with the digital wallet offered in 40 different currencies.

Customers can transfer money to their Skrill wallet using various payment options including by card, bank transfer, and others.

In 2015, Skrill was acquired by the Paysafe Group along with former competitor Neteller and prepaid payment provider paysafecard.

Skrill is operated by Paysafe Payment Solutions Limited, a company incorporated in Ireland and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, for its European regulated activities.

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Skrill was originally founded in 2001 in the United Kingdom as Moneybookers, a digital wallet provider.

In 2015, Skrill was acquired by Optimal Payments, the parent company of rival digital wallet Neteller, for €1.

In 2018, Skrill began to expand the portfolio of services offered to its users, launching an international money transfer service in February 2018, and a crypto service in July 2018 allowing users to buy and trade cryptocurrencies.

In March 2021, Skrill announced a new partnership with the English Premier League football team Leeds United.

In 2011, Skrill first sponsored the PokerStars owned European Poker Tour for its eighth season, sponsoring the event again in 2013 for its tenth season.

Skrill is a digital multicurrency wallet provider for handling online payments, making transfers and storing money.

Skrill offers a loyalty programme called Knect, enabling customers to earn loyalty points that can be exchanged for cash vouchers.

Skrill was named Best Digital Wallet in 2019 by Juniper Research at their Future Digital Awards.