Flywire Payments Limited
Reference number: 570754
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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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Website
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Phone number
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Address
45 Folgate Street, London, E1 6BX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When flywire.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3879 0733 is
- Who else gives the postcode E1 6BX
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Flywire Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- PeerTransfer Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- PeerTransfer 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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- 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 2. Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
- 6. Money remittance.
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.
- Company number
- 07677601 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 21 June 2011 (15 years old)
- Registered office
- 6th Floor 9 Appold Street, London, EC2A 2AP, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 66190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Aled Llyr Morgan | Director | Aug 1986 | 14 Nov 2012 | 1 other company |
| Thomas James Marsh | Director | Dec 1985 | 11 Mar 2014 | 1 other company |
| Peter Tower Butterfield | Director | Aug 1964 | 4 May 2016 | 5 other companies |
| Robert Orgel | Director | Jun 1968 | 24 Feb 2023 | None |
| Alan David Wade | Director | Feb 1987 | 16 Sep 2025 | None |
| Aled Morgan | Secretary | Not published | 2 Sep 2024 | – |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- 6
- closed down
- 4
- run together
- 1
In the full report: all 6 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 1 company these 5 directors run together
- All 10 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£17.0m
+17% from £14.5m
Total equity
£3.55m
+31% from £2.71m
Cash at bank
£3.93m
+34% from £2.92m
Employees (average)
36
No earlier figure to compare
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover
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 07677601. 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
Flywire Payments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
26 May 2021
- Flywire Corporation took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2018
21 May 2018
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
3 January 2016
- Changed its registered name from "PeerTransfer Limited"
FCA register
2014
6 August 2014
- No longer supervised by HMRC
FCA register
2013
1 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2012
4 December 2012
- Regulated by the Financial Services Authority from this date
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
2011
21 June 2011
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 26 events
- All 26 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 15
Firms connected to Flywire Payments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Flywire Payments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share its postcode
- 3
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Flywire Payments
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 6 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 26 events in its history
- 3 connected firms, named, and who links them
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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