Wallester UK Limited
Reference number: 1040163
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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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Phone number
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Address
Wallester UK Ltd, Room 4.02, 17 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1BN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When wallester.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07535 701512 is
- Who else gives the postcode W1S 1BN
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.
Show FCA detail (7 permissions)
- 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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Account information services and payment initiation services
The institution is required to refrain from providing account information services or payment initiation services for an indefinite period.
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Agents
The institution will not onboard any agents.
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Unrelated payment services
The institution will not provide any payment services which are not related to the issuing of e-money i.e. unrelated payment services.
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
- 14478454 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 11 November 2022 (3 years old)
- Registered office
- 21 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DY, 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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| Sergei Astafjev | Director | May 1985 | 11 Nov 2022 | None |
| Dmitri Logvinenko | Director | Aug 1991 | 11 Nov 2022 | None |
| Julian Alastair Brand | Director | Jan 1970 | 30 Jan 2024 | 4 other companies |
| Anna Clare Maxim | Director | Sep 1986 | 13 Sep 2024 | 1 other company |
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
- 5
- closed down
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 5 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
- The one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- All 5 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
−£756k
No earlier figure to compare
Total equity
−£817k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£341k
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Owed within a year
£1.18m
No earlier figure to compare
Total equity is negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £817k more than it owned.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
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 14478454. 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
Wallester UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
28 May 2026
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Account information services and payment initiation services)
- FCA imposed a requirement (Agents)
- FCA imposed a requirement (Unrelated payment services)
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2022
11 November 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Wallester Group Ou took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
Firms connected to Wallester UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Wallester UK. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- past link
- 1
In the full report: all 0 connected firms, named
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Wallester UK
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 13 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