Galaxy Digital UK Limited
Reference number: 928891
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On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is how cryptoasset firms are registered. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
- Registered for 4 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2018
- Accounts filed up to 30 December 2023
This is the company's money-laundering registration only. It separately holds full FCA authorisation under FRN 1007925 →.
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no compensation to fall back on. The FCA's own position is that crypto is largely unregulated in the UK and that compensation for crypto losses is highly unlikely.
This company holds another FCA record
A company can hold several FCA records, covering different parts of its business, and each one carries its own permissions and protection. The reference number you were given decides which record applies to you.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Website
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Phone number
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Address
Galaxy Digital UK, 5, Swallow Place, London, W1B 2AF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When galaxy.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 4579 3336 is
- Who else gives the postcode W1B 2AF
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service generally does not cover unregulated cryptoasset activity.
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
- 11500330 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 3 August 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- 62 Threadneedle Street Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8HP, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
- Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 66190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Jason Peter Urban | Director | Feb 1976 | 31 Dec 2020 | None |
| Jonathan Marc Goldowsky | Director | Sep 1993 | 28 Sep 2026 | None |
| Shrijit Ramachandra Plappally | Director | Jan 1983 | 28 Sep 2026 | None |
| Vicki Norbury | Secretary | Not published | 12 Nov 2024 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
- All 13 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£7.18m
+45% from £4.97m
Cash at bank
£144k
+102% from £71.4k
Employees (average)
28
Up 27 from 1
Owed within a year
£9.20m
+849% from £969k
The accounts for the year to 30 December 2023 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £1.52m, for the year to 30 December 2020.
Assets and liabilities
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 11500330. 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
Galaxy Digital UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
25 November 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2020
29 January 2020
- Board replaced: its only director left and 3 new directors took over
Companies House
2018
3 August 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Michael Novogratz took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 28 events
- All 28 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 23
Firms connected to Galaxy Digital UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Galaxy Digital UK. 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
Get the full report on Galaxy Digital UK
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 28 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
- Crypto: what the FCA registration means fca.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk