Case Study: Thorn Baker streamlines and secures high-volume payments with AccessPay

Streamlined payment security for a high-volume recruitment firm: from hours of in-person processing to minutes of remote work

Thorn Baker is a high-volume recruitment firm that pays up to 1,500 temporary workers each week, so its finance team needed a fast, secure, and reliable way to manage payments. Using AccessPay, the company was struggling with outdated smart-card-based banking, an awkward interface, and poor controls for checking payees, which created risks around fraud, misdirected payments, and modern slavery compliance.

AccessPay provided Thorn Baker with an automated payments platform that removed the need for card readers and added built-in Account Name Verification (ANV) checks. As a result, Thorn Baker now runs monthly payroll and weekly BACS payments more efficiently, can approve payments remotely, and has improved safeguards across its payment process, with new users set up in minutes and onboarding described as fast and straightforward.

Thorn Baker

Maddy Richards

Financial Controller