United Kingdom · Payments & e-money
Volt Technologies Limited
Trading asVolt
Volt Technologies Limited is a private limited company incorporated in England and Wales in July 2022, with its registered office in London. Since 18 August 2023 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has authorised it as an electronic money institution under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FRN 982594). It is a subsidiary of Volt Technologies Holdings Limited, the parent of the Volt group. That parent holds a separate FCA authorisation as a payment institution (FRN 925340). The firm provides merchants and payment service providers with e-money accounts (Volt Accounts), open banking payment initiation, account information services and payouts.
Licences and registrations
Held by Volt Technologies Limited (LEI 529900T4BUMINSRA2A33). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FCA Financial Services Register - E-Money InstitutionsFCA | Authorised E-Money InstitutionE-Money / Stored Value Institution | 982594 | United Kingdom | Active | 2023-08-18 | — |
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Trading names on the register: Volt (FCA-EMI)
- Each licence applies in the country of the regulator that granted it.
- Registers are tracked in 37 countries. Licences granted elsewhere are not recorded here.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Volt Technologies Holdings Limited
Firm type
Open banking
Trades as Volt
- Ownership
- Volt Technologies Holdings Limited (Companies House 12140559) holds 75% or more of the shares and voting rights. The firm's 2024 accounts name it as the immediate and ultimate controlling party.
- Direct parent
- Volt Technologies Holdings Limited, United Kingdom
- Head office
- The Bloomsbury Building, 10 Bloomsbury Way, WC1 2SL London, United Kingdom
- Company register
- Companies House 14234292
- Incorporated
- 14 Jul 2022
- Founders
- Tom Greenwood · Steffen Vollert
Online
- Websites & references
- volt.io ↗
docs.volt.io ↗ developer documentation
fuzebox.volt.io ↗ merchant portal (Fuzebox) login - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · YouTube ↗
Sources · 14 pages consulted
- register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=0014G000031PzoKQAS
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14234292
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14234292/officers
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14234292/persons-with-significant-control
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14234292/filing-history
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14234292/filing-history/MzQ5MTI4ODgyMmFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
- volt.io/legal/regulatory/
- volt.io/legal/uk-msa/
- volt.io/legal/user-terms/
- volt.io/legal/safeguarding/
- volt.io/about/
- clear.bank/learn/news/volt-partners-with-clearbank-to-power-latest-generation-of-merchant-account-ca
- finextra.com/newsarticle/42524/open-payments-firm-volt-raises-60m
- volt.io/newsroom/volt-series-a/
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The FCA authorises the firm as an electronic money institution under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 and the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (FRN 982594). Its parent, Volt Technologies Holdings Limited, is separately authorised by the FCA as a payment institution for account information and payment initiation services (FRN 925340).
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Conduct Authority United Kingdom | Authorised Electronic Money Institution | 982594 | In its own name | Active | register.fca.org.uk ↗ |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Partners and safeguarding
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Safeguarding
- Segregated safeguarding accountsThe firm states that it safeguards customer funds by segregation. They are held in cash in designated safeguarding accounts with authorised credit institutions and are not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
Banks and regulated firms the firm says hold its customers’ money, issue its cards, sponsor its accounts or settle its payments, as it discloses them in its terms and notices.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It provides merchants and payment service providers with GBP e-money accounts (Volt Accounts), virtual IBANs, refunds and payouts, open banking payment initiation, account information and the Circuit Breaker fraud-rules tool.
It serves business customers under its UK authorisation. According to its 2024 accounts, it also operates a branch in Berlin, Germany, and earned part of its turnover in the rest of Europe.
- Revenue
- GBP 2.53m
- Sells to
- Enterprises · Financial institutions · Platforms and marketplaces
- Serves customers in
- United Kingdom
- Latest funding round
- Series B · USD 60m Jun 2023Led by IVP
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Steffen Vollert Chief Executive Officer (Volt group); director
- Executive
- Stephanie Luisa Annabelle Lopes-Smith Chief Legal Officer (Volt group); director and company secretary
- Compliance / MLRO
- Ayo Salam SVP Compliance & Risk (Volt group)
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
Graham Christopher Nicholas Baxter resigned as a director of the firm on 4 May 2026.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
Volt announced a partnership with ClearBank to offer ClearBank-powered EUR and GBP payment accounts, virtual IBANs and named accounts to merchants.
clear.bank ↗ -
Leadership
Co-founder Thomas Greenwood resigned as a director on 9 September 2024, and Graham Baxter was appointed a director the same day.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Steffen Vollert was appointed a director on 6 August 2024, and Gabriel Bernard de Montessus de Ballore resigned the same day.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Licence
The FCA authorised the firm as an electronic money institution with effect from 18 August 2023.
register.fca.org.uk ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Identifiers
- Licence no. · FCA-EMI
- 982594
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate on the UK company number the register gives
- Elucidate firm ID
- 1e7d08de9036
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-moneyPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Main licence class
- E-Money / Stored Value Institution
- Activities
- Payment services
- E-money / stored value
- Licensed in
- United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2023-08-18
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Volt Technologies Holdings Limited · United Kingdom21380036LA1ULHP1FI20 ↗
The Volt Technologies Holdings Limited group has 3 institutions in the directory, in 2 countries: 1 holds a BIC and 2 do not.
Including Volt Technologies Holdings Limited, Volt Technologies sp. z o.o..
See the Volt Technologies Holdings Limited group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Volt 2:17, The Bloomsbury Building, 10 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SL
- Country
- United Kingdom
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in two address lines
<FinInstnId>
<LEI>529900T4BUMINSRA2A33</LEI>
<Nm>Volt Technologies Limited</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>WC1A 2SL</PstCd>
<TwnNm>London</TwnNm>
<Ctry>GB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Volt 2:17, The Bloomsbury Building</AdrLine>
<AdrLine>10 Bloomsbury Way</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>CBPR+ identifies the instructing and instructed agents by BIC only. An institution without a BIC can be the debtor, creditor or an intermediary agent.
The values are as published by the register. Check them against your own records before use.
Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Register for this page
- FCA Financial Services Register - E-Money Institutions—Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) · source ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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