Spot for Payments Companies

Get quotes from 50+ payments insurance providers with Spot

We get quotes that follow your payment flow, compare them with you on more than price and help you buy before a bank partner asks.

  • Your payment flow mapped before brokers quote
  • Bank, acquirer and card network requests checked
  • Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums
A payments rep hands a card terminal across a café counter to the owner.

How Spot helps Payments Companies

Show us how money moves through your systems

Your Spot team maps where card data enters, which systems hold or move it, who can touch funds, and which banks, processors and vendors sit in the flow.

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Coalition
Beazley
Chubb

Find the rule behind each bank request

When a bank, acquirer or card network asks for limits or a bond, Spot asks for the precise rule or contract clause, confirms it applies to your role and checks it against your policies.

Cyber liability insurance

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Policy wording
Coverage limits
Compare with
Contract requirements

Confirm with your broker

Limits, exclusions, and endorsements

Compare quotes on breaches, outages and fraud

When the market responds, Spot maps a card-data breach, a routing error, a vendor outage, an unauthorized transfer and an employee act to each proposal.

Chubb
Beazley
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Cyber liability insurance

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How buying insurance works for Payments Companies

  1. 01

    Tell us about your business

    Share what you do, where you work, the policies you have and any contracts that ask for insurance.

  2. 02

    We write up your application

    Spot turns it into an application that describes your business the way insurers need to see it.

  3. 03

    We get quotes from insurers

    Spot handles the procurement, sending it to the insurers and markets that cover businesses like yours and chasing every quote.

  4. 04

    Compare your quotes

    We put the quotes side by side on limits, exclusions and terms as well as price.

  5. 05

    Buy your policy and get certificates

    You choose. Spot places the policy for you, and certificates are ready when a customer or landlord asks.

Payments Companies we help

  • Gateways and processors

    You store, process or transmit cardholder data, so a breach or routing error can reach merchants, acquirers and card networks.

  • Wallets and money movement apps

    Your team or systems can approve transfers and change account details, which is where crime and social-engineering questions start.

  • Payments infrastructure and API companies

    Customers build on your ledger, reconciliation or settlement APIs, and an error becomes their financial loss.

  • Point-of-sale and hardware providers

    Terminals and devices sold alongside your service add general liability to the cyber and technology questions.

Insurance Payments Companies usually carry

The policies companies like yours are usually asked for, and when each one comes up.

  • Cyber liability

    Your product stores, processes, transmits, or can affect the security of cardholder data or connected payment systems.

  • Technology errors and omissions (E&O)

    You provide gateways, routing, ledgers, reconciliation, APIs, settlement instructions, or payment software.

  • Crime

    Employees or systems can redirect funds, approve transfers, change account details, or act on payment instructions.

  • Fidelity bonds

    A bank, card network, program, rule, or contract asks for a bond or fidelity protection.

  • General liability

    You host visitors, operate a physical location, or provide hardware in addition to payment services.

Insurers that quote Payments Companies

Get quotes from 50+ payments insurance providers with Spot.

  • AIG
  • Alliance Risk
  • Amelia Risk
  • Aon
  • At-Bay
  • Beazley
  • Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance
  • And many more

When Payments Companies need insurance

  • 01

    A sponsor bank or acquirer sent requirements

    Note the named insured, service, limits, additional insured terms and evidence they expect before you compare quotes.

  • 02

    A partner asks for a fidelity bond

    Get the exact rule or clause, the bond form, covered persons and limit, and confirm the request applies to your role.

  • 03

    You’re starting to move more money yourself

    Holding or transmitting funds changes your crime and errors and omissions questions. Update the submission before launch.

  • 04

    Your PCI scope is changing

    Use the new data map to complete the cyber application; it shapes what you disclose but doesn’t decide which policy responds.

Questions from Payments Companies

Also known as payments company insurance, payment processor insurance, payment processing insurance, payment facilitator insurance, payfac insurance, money transmitter insurance and digital wallet insurance.

Is a money transmitter bond the same as insurance?

No. A state license bond protects your customers and the regulator, not your company. Your own coverage usually means cyber, tech E&O, crime and fidelity bonds. Spot keeps the license bond request separate from the policies it compares.

Does our PCI scope decide which policy pays?

No. PCI scope concerns cardholder-data functions and validation, not insurance. Spot compares the cyber and technology wording itself.

Does every payments company need a fidelity bond?

No single rule says so. Ask the bank, network, program or regulator named in your documents which rule or clause applies, and Spot checks the bond form against it.

Is a social-engineering transfer covered by crime insurance?

Only when the crime form names that event. Spot asks which funds, people, instructions and transfer methods each crime proposal includes, and when a loss must be discovered.

What should we send so brokers understand our payment flow?

Send a payment flow diagram, your sponsor bank and acquirer agreements, your current policies and the vendors in your stack. Your Spot team turns that flow into the submission brokers take to market.

Get insurance off your to-do list.

Get quotes from 50+ payments insurance providers with Spot. Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums.

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