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 2013
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
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.
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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
6th Floor, 1 London Wall, London, EC2Y 5EB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0808 501 5031 is
- Who else gives the postcode EC2Y 5EB
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Kraken Digital Asset Exchange Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Kraken Exchange Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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
- 08593670 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 July 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- 6th Floor, One London Wall, London, EC2Y 5EB
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bivu Das | Director | Mar 1984 | 30 Nov 2023 | 3 other companies |
| Mark Laurence Greenberg | Director | Mar 1983 | 7 Apr 2025 | None |
| Naomi Alaba Obasa | Director | Feb 1982 | 7 Apr 2025 | 1 other company |
| Natasha Isobel Louise Powell | Director | Oct 1979 | 7 Apr 2025 | 2 other companies |
| Mark Jeremy Taylor | Director | Mar 1963 | 14 Apr 2025 | None |
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
- 5
- still active
- 5
- are FCA-registered
- 3
In the full report: all 5 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 3 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 5 directors run together
- All 15 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£1.94m
−43% from £3.39m
Total equity
£21.9m
+7.4% from £20.4m
Cash at bank
£274.1m
−45% from £499.6m
Owed within a year
£2362.4m
+296% from £597.1m
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2022 to 2025
- Both charts, 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 08593670. 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
Payward’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
15 April 2023
- Jesse William Powell no longer has significant control
Companies House
2021
23 November 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Jesse William Powell gained significant control
Companies House
2013
2 July 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 30 events
- All 30 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 23
Firms connected to Payward
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Payward. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 2 past links through former directors
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 30 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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