United Kingdom · Payments & e-money
Yapily Connect LTD
Trading asYapily Connect
Yapily Connect LTD is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, based in London. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorises it as an authorised payment institution (firm reference number 827001) to provide account information and payment initiation services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yapily Ltd, which states that it is not itself a regulated entity. The firm provides the regulated open banking services behind the Yapily API platform in the UK. Business clients can also operate under its licence instead of holding their own.
Licences and registrations
Held by Yapily Connect LTD. 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 - Payment Institutions & RAISPsFCA | Authorised Payment InstitutionPayment Institution | 827001 | United Kingdom | Active | 2019-08-19 | — |
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Trading names on the register: Yapily Connect (FCA-PSD)
- 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. No LEI is matched to this entry, and BICs are linked by LEI only.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Employees
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% Yapily Ltd
Firm type
Open banking
Trades as Yapily Connect
- Ownership
- Yapily Ltd (Companies House 10842280) owns 100% of the firm and is registered as its only person with significant control.
- Direct parent
- Yapily Ltd, United Kingdom 100%
- Head office
- 66 Paul Street, EC2A 4NA London, United Kingdom
- Company register
- Companies House 11598433
- Incorporated
- 1 Oct 2018
- Founder
- Stefano Vaccino
- Former name
- SAFECONNECT LTD
Online
- Websites & references
- yapily.com ↗
docs.yapily.com ↗ developer documentation
console.yapily.com ↗ customer console - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗ · X ↗ · GitHub ↗
Sources · 12 pages consulted
- register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=0010X00004J9MH9QAN
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11598433
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11598433/officers
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11598433/persons-with-significant-control
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11598433/filing-history
- yapily.com
- yapily.com/legal/compliance-and-regulatory-information
- yapily.com/blog/compliance-regulatory-clarification-open-banking/
- yapily.com/legal/end-user-terms
- yapily.com/product/yapilyconnect
- yapily.com/company/about-us
- yapily.com/blog/series-b-announcement
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The FCA authorises the firm as an authorised payment institution to provide account information and payment initiation services. Clients can use its licence through the Yapily Connect service without becoming regulated third-party providers themselves.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial Conduct Authority United Kingdom | Authorised Payment Institution | 827001 | 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.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Through the Yapily API, the firm provides account information and payment initiation for single, variable recurring and bulk Pay by Bank payments, plus account verification, to payment firms, banks, lenders and accounting platforms.
The firm provides regulated services in the UK under its FCA authorisation. The group serves EU customers through its sister company Yapily Connect UAB, which the Bank of Lithuania regulates.
- Sells to
- Financial institutions · Platforms and marketplaces · Enterprises · Small businesses
- Serves customers in
- United Kingdom
- Latest funding round
- Series B · USD 51m Jul 2021Led by Sapphire Ventures
- Total raised
- USD 69m to Jul 2021 · yapily.com ↗
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Chief executive
- Stefano Vaccino Director; Founder and CEO of Yapily
- Executive
- Gerd Hoxha Director
- Executive
- Deniz Gokcen Director
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
Roland Marc Selmer resigned as a director on 2 July 2026, and Deniz Gokcen was appointed a director the same day.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Gerd Hoxha was appointed a director of the firm on 23 April 2025.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.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-PSD
- 827001
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- LEI
- No LEI mapped
- Elucidate firm ID
- df4777baf349
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
- Payment Institution
- Activities
- Payment services
- Licensed in
- United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2019-08-19
- Website
- www.yapily.com ↗
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
No LEI is matched to this entry, so GLEIF relationship records cannot be linked.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Huckletree, 213 Oxford Street, London, W1D 2LG
- 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. No LEI or clearing code is mapped in the directory
- Postal address
- Hybrid: town, postcode and country in their own elements, the rest in one address line
<FinInstnId>
<Nm>Yapily Connect LTD</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<PstCd>W1D 2LG</PstCd>
<TwnNm>London</TwnNm>
<Ctry>GB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>Huckletree, 213 Oxford Street</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
Register entries come from the public registers of financial regulators, standardised into one taxonomy. LEIs are matched through GLEIF, and a BIC is linked only through a shared LEI.
An institution missing from these registers is not necessarily unregulated.
Register entries are not matched against the OFAC or EU sanctions lists. Where the legal entity also holds a BIC, the matches for that BIC are on its page. Always screen against the official lists.
An institution is one entry in the directory: a BIC8 in Swift’s directory, or a firm on a tracked register that holds no BIC. Licences held by an institution with a BIC are shown on its page.
Read the methodology →Register for this page
- FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs—Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) · source ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- 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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