ION CAPITAL UK LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-04-01 (in 11mo)
Last made up 2026-03-18
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
+122,120.4% vs 2023
Net assets
—
Equity attributable
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
£188M
+521.7% vs 2023
Profit before tax
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £6,980,001 | £6,980,001 | |
| Operating profit | -£308,786 | £5,443,013 | |
| Profit before tax | -£44,518,986 | £187,733,886 | |
| Net profit | -£33,336,887 | £206,361,645 | |
| Cash | £7,849 | £9,593,081 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | — | — | |
| Net assets | — | — | |
| Equity | £592,377,603 | £659,942,403 | |
| Average employees | 0 | 0 | |
| Wages | — | — | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | £1,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
0%
£6,980,001 £6,980,001
-
Cash
+122,120.4%
£7,849 £9,593,081
-
Net assets
—
Not reported
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+1,862.7%
-£308,786 £5,443,013
-
Profit before tax
+521.7%
-£44,518,986 £187,733,886
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -4.4% | 78.0% | |
| Interest cover | -0.00x | 0.05x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Margin ratios are hidden where reported turnover is too small relative to profit to yield a meaningful figure — typical of holding companies whose income is mostly subsidiary dividends rather than trading revenue. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis of accounting... The Board... has satisfied itself and considers it appropriate that the Company is a going concern, having adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and has not identified any material uncertainties that would cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern over the period of assessment.”
Group structure
- ION CAPITAL UK LIMITED · parent
- Fidessa Group Holdings Ltd 100%
- Fidessa Trading UK Ltd 100%
- Fidessa Buy-side Ltd 100%
- Fidessa Software Ltd 100%
- Fidessa SAS 100%
- Fidessa Corporation 100%
- Fidessa Buy-side incorporated 100%
- Fidessa Canada Corporation (Canada) 100%
- Fidessa pte Limited 100%
- Fidessa pty Limited 100%
- ION Group Japan kk 100%
- Fidessa Limited 100%
- Fidessa Soluções Em Software Limitada 100%
- Clarus Financial Technology Limited 100%
- Clarus Financial Technology PTE. Ltd 100%
- Clarus Financial Technology, Inc 100%
- Dash Financial Technologies LLC 100%
- Dash Prime LLC 100%
- Dash Regulatory Technologies LLC 100%
- DFT Acquisition Holdings LLC 100%
- DFT Acquisition LLC 100%
- DFT Equity Holdings Inc 100%
- DFT Intermediate Holdings LLC 100%
- DFT Intermediate LLC 100%
- Aphelion Consulting AB 100%
- Aphelion eFX Trading Limited 100%
- Aphelion eFX Trading Inc 100%
Significant events
- “In February 2025, the Company cancelled its share premium by the amount of £250.0 million and simultaneously created profits available for distribution of the same amount pursuant to Section 502(1) of the Companies Act 2006. In 2025, the Board declared and paid dividends of £81.16 million.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFIN, Neil | Secretary | 2021-06-30 | — | — |
| EVANS, Paul Robert | Director | 2022-03-09 | May 1975 | English |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOODS, Ashley | Secretary | 2018-03-19 | 2021-06-30 |
| BERARDI, Vito Vittorio Junior | Director | 2022-03-09 | 2023-01-31 |
| CERETTI, Lorenzo | Director | 2020-10-20 | 2021-09-15 |
| CLINCH, Conor Gerard | Director | 2018-08-13 | 2020-10-20 |
| DE ANGELIS, Giulio | Director | 2023-01-31 | 2023-07-07 |
| PIGNATARO, Andrea | Director | 2018-03-19 | 2020-10-20 |
| TRIPLETT, Edward Alexander | Director | 2018-03-19 | 2022-03-09 |
| WOODS, Ashley Graham | Director | 2018-03-19 | 2021-04-09 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Pignataro | Individual | Significant influence | 2023-01-01 | Active |
| Atlas Financial Software Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2018-05-19 | Active |
| Ion Investment Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2018-03-19 | Ceased 2022-12-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 63 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-02-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-01-20 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-10-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-09-11 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2025-05-29 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-02-07 | SH19 | capital | Capital statement capital company with date currency figure | |
| 2025-02-07 | SH20 | capital | Legacy | |
| 2025-02-07 | CAP-SS | insolvency | Legacy | |
| 2025-02-07 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-10-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-07-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-07-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-03-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-18 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 2
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.