What is a Paymaster?
A paymaster is someone appointed by a group of buyers, sellers, investors or lenders to receive, hold, and dispense funds, commissions, fees, salaries (remuneration) or other trade, loan, or sales proceeds within the private sector or public sector.[
The primary purpose of a paymaster is to receive fees in escrow by buyers in a large transaction, and disburse to the sellers and brokers on the transaction.
A paymaster is usually, but not required to be, a lawyer (also known as a ‘lawyer paymaster’). When dealing with commission payments on contracts dealing with large amounts of money (such as Oil, Gas, Steel, Iron, Gold, MTN’s, VG’s, T-Strips, and other instruments), most banks are very wary of handling such large amounts of money. In addition, most buyers and sellers of such transactions want to place the money with a neutral third party for disbursement. In most cases, the buyer and the seller involved in the transaction require a paymaster be named to handle all incoming and outgoing funds.
A paymaster is a neutral third party and does not to have knowledge of any particulars of the transaction. They handle the incoming commissions, and then disburses the funds accordingly. In return for their services the paymaster charges a small fee, which is paid directly to them out of the commission proceeds prior to disbursement.
Our Paymaster account can handle more than 120 different currencies over more than 30 correspondent banks. With the necessary underlying documents we are able to realize transfers of over 100 million USD / EUR. Transfers
