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
Level 18, 40 Banks Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5NR, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When xpate.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0330 818 1119 is
- Whether E14 5NR is a shared office: 24 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
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
- 11920779 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 April 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- Level 18 40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5NR, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
- Management consultancy activities other than financial management (SIC 70229)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Mihails Safro | Director | Aug 1989 | 3 May 2019 | 1 other company |
| Anna Zotova | Director | Feb 1986 | 22 Feb 2021 | None |
Other companies run by these 2 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 company
- 1
- still active
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£3.66m
From a loss of £721k
Net assets
£44.6m
+8.3% from £41.2m
Cash at bank
£20.3m
+564% from £3.06m
Owed within a year
£26.7m
+653% from £3.54m
The accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £5.92m, for the year to 31 December 2024.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 11920779. 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
Xpate’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
20 February 2026
- Mihails Safro gave up control
- X22 Sia took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2020
18 March 2020
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2019
2 April 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Mihails Safro took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
Firms connected to xpate
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with xpate. 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 xpate
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 12 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