Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Level 30 The Leadenhall Building Level 30 The Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3V 4AB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check, 1 thing worth a closer look
- Whether EC3V 4AB is a shared office: 32 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- PayNow Capital Limited Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers Funds safeguardedYour money must be kept in a separate safeguarded account. If the firm fails, all safeguarded funds should be returned to you. With no upper limit, unlike the capped amounts under FSCS. Safeguarding works differently from FSCS, but protects your full balance when the rules are followed correctly.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- a) Services enabling cash placement on a payment account
- b) Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account
- c) Execution of payment transactions (not covered by a credit line)
- d) Execution of payment transactions (covered by a credit line)
- e) Issuing payment instruments or acquiring payment transactions
- f) Money remittance
- h) Issuing Electronic Money
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
Concerns on the company record
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- 11611661 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 October 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- Level 30 The Leadenhall Building Level 30 The Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3V 4AB, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viacheslav Charyev | Director | Jun 1980 | 29 Mar 2021 | None |
| Richard Anthony Leigh | Director | Feb 1965 | 15 Oct 2026 | 9 other companies |
| Maxwell Chartered Accountants | Secretary | Not published | 13 May 2026 | – |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 9
- closed down
- 4
- still active
- 5
In the full report: all 9 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£295k
<1% from £296k
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Owed within a year
£70.2k
Same as £70.2k
No turnover or profit for the year to 31 October 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £132k turnover and £19.0k profit, for the year to 31 October 2020.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 11611661. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Bastion Fingroup’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
23 November 2023
- Fernando Plata Franco gave up control
Companies House
1 November 2023
- Fernando Plata Franco took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2021
21 December 2021
- Alexey Lashkov no longer has significant control
- Viacheslav Charyev took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2020
5 June 2020
- Changed its registered name from "PayNow Capital Limited"
FCA register
2019
24 December 2019
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
17 May 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2018
9 October 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Alexey Lashkov gained significant control
- Vyacheslav Chariyev gave up control
- Vyacheslav Chariyev took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 23 events
- All 23 events in its history (11 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 12
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- 9 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 23 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk