Ripple Markets UK Ltd
Reference number: 1028021
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
- Authorised for under a year
- Your funds are safeguarded
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2016
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2023
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Also registered under the Money Laundering Regulations
Website, phone number and address
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Website
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Phone number
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Address
16th Floor, 1 Angel Court, London, EC2R 7HJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When ripple.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3880 5862 is
- Whether EC2R 7HJ is a shared office: 31 other firms give it
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
Limits on what they may do
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Ripple Markets UK Ltd will not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, provide the following services:
1. The firm will not operate a machine which utilises any automated processes to exchange cryptoassets for money or money for cryptoassets 2. Offer or commence any services to retail clients.
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The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors.
The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors.
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The firm will not issue electronic money, or provide payment services, to a consumer, micro-enterprise or charity.
The firm will not issue electronic money, or provide payment services, to a consumer, micro-enterprise or charity.
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
- 10145333 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 April 2016 (10 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Csc Cls (Uk) Limited 5 Churchill Place, 10th Floor, London, E14 5HU, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Nigel Khakoo | Director | Jul 1967 | 5 Jun 2023 | None |
| Christopher Alexander Myers | Director | Oct 1984 | 5 Jun 2023 | 2 other companies |
| Cassandra Jane Craddock-Ball | Director | Aug 1992 | 30 Nov 2023 | None |
| Timothy Charles Sawyer | Director | Feb 1962 | 30 Nov 2023 | None |
| CSC CLS (UK) LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 7 Aug 2025 | – |
Other companies run by these 4 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
- 2
- still active
- 2
In the full report: all 2 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 4 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 13 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£2.83m
+126% from £1.26m
Net assets
£29.0m
+300% from £7.25m
Cash at bank
£1.87m
−62% from £4.95m
Employees (average)
97
+37% from 71
The accounts for the year to 31 December 2023 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £23.6m, for the year to 31 December 2022.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2023
- 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 10145333. 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
Ripple Markets UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
9 January 2026
- FCA imposed a requirement (Ripple Markets UK Ltd will not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, provide the following services:)
- FCA imposed a requirement (The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors.)
- FCA imposed a requirement (The firm will not issue electronic money, or provide payment services, to a consumer, micro-enterprise or charity.)
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2025
6 February 2025
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2016
25 April 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christian Anton Larsen gained 50–75% of the votes
Companies House
In the full report: all 27 events
- All 27 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 20
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 27 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