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Cash
£128m
USD 173,096,000
-14.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£38m
USD 51,563,000
-40.2% lowest in 3 filed years
Employees
6
+50% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£7.7m
USD 10,419,000
-68.2% first positive since 2023
Net assets
3-year trend · vs Financials median
Accounts
3-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £166,430,028 | £236,294,174 | £345,624,490 | +46.3% | |
| Operating profit | -£6,187,637 | £13,267,272 | £6,961,039 | -47.5% | |
| Profit before tax | -£4,681,519 | £24,343,362 | £7,732,096 | -68.2% | |
| Net profit | -£4,455,601 | £24,300,382 | £7,636,364 | -68.6% | |
| Cash | £101,710,072 | £150,608,883 | £128,457,143 | -14.7% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £229,008,472 | £84,266,953 | £53,321,707 | -36.7% | |
| Net assets | £210,943,677 | £63,970,869 | £38,265,677 | -40.2% | |
| Equity | £210,943,677 | £63,970,869 | £38,265,677 | -40.2% | |
| Average employees | — | 4 | 6 | +50% | |
| Wages | — | £1,337,154 | £1,665,306 | +24.5% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £1,187,520 | — | — | |
| Directors' pension contributions | — | £54,919 | — | — | |
| Highest paid director | — | £669,373 | £1,283,117 | +91.7% |
Figures converted to GBP from USD at 0.742 per USD (Frankfurter spot rate) — hover any figure for the original. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -3.7% | 5.6% | 2.0% | |
| Net margin | -2.7% | 10.3% | 2.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | -2.7% | 15.7% | 13.1% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 68.6% | 82.9% | 89.6% | |
| Current ratio | 1.43x | 1.13x | 1.04x | |
| Interest cover | -6.65x | 1.11x | 1.63x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“A letter of support is in place from Checkout Payments Group Limited ('the Company's parent') to enable the Company to meet its financial obligations as they fall due, up to and including December 2027.”
Significant events
- “In November 2025 there was a cyber incident whereby a group gained unauthorised access to a legacy cloud file storage system. This incident did not impact our live payment processing platform, nor were any merchant funds or card numbers accessed.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSC CLS (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2025-07-21 | — | — |
| MATHIEU, Emilie | Director | 2023-09-26 | Jul 1980 | French |
| PAULUS, Ashley Marie | Director | 2025-10-03 | Jul 1988 | American |
| VALLIS, John Henry | Director | 2024-08-21 | Jul 1968 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2024-03-26 | 2025-07-21 |
| ALTWEGG, Mathieu Andre Guy | Director | 2012-06-11 | 2015-10-03 |
| ASHER, Adrian Charles | Director | 2022-11-28 | 2024-08-21 |
| BARDORF, Wolfgang | Director | 2022-11-28 | 2023-09-26 |
| BENCHIMOL, Mike | Director | 2020-12-04 | 2022-11-28 |
| HOVAGUIMIAN, Thomas | Director | 2015-11-10 | 2020-12-04 |
| POUSAZ, Guillaume | Director | 2012-04-19 | 2023-01-31 |
| SIMMONS, Edward Philip | Director | 2023-11-17 | 2025-08-31 |
| WEIGAND, Michael | Director | 2022-11-28 | 2023-11-17 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkout Group Ltd | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Mr Guillaume Georges Pousaz | Individual | Significant influence | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 89 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-10-17 MA Memorandum articles
- 2025-10-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-24 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-10-17 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2025-10-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-10-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-11 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-11 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-18 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-05 | ANNOTATION | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2024-09-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-09-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-04-17 | AP04 | officers | Appoint corporate secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-02-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-21 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.