DNA PAYMENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-06-18 (in 1mo)
Last made up 2025-06-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£9M
+40.8% vs 2023
Net assets
£33M
+11.2% vs 2023
Employees
304
+5.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£19M
+8.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £25,985,331 | £31,495,789 | |
| Operating profit | -£20,884,703 | -£19,273,127 | |
| Profit before tax | -£20,990,230 | -£19,263,975 | |
| Net profit | -£21,143,933 | -£19,293,818 | |
| Cash | £6,064,235 | £8,537,506 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £29,914,517 | £33,394,527 | |
| Net assets | £29,509,170 | £32,815,352 | |
| Equity | £29,509,170 | £32,815,352 | |
| Average employees | 287 | 304 | |
| Wages | £13,492,459 | £14,226,713 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -80.4% | -61.2% | |
| Net margin | -81.4% | -61.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -69.8% | -57.7% | |
| Current ratio | 1.21x | 1.56x | |
| Interest cover | -196.27x | -16007.58x |
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. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Having made appropriate enquiries, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis”
Group structure
- DNA PAYMENTS LIMITED · parent
- CR7 Services Limited 100%
- Active Merchant Services Limited 100%
- EFT Solutions Limited 100%
- Kwalitas Limited 100%
- First Payment Merchant Services Limited 100%
- Card Cutters Limited 100%
- One Two Three Send Limited 100%
- Optomany Limited 100%
- Optomany Kazakhstan 100%
- Card Cutters Ireland Limited 100%
Significant events
- “As of January 2024 the company entered into a period of restructuring Transformational activities undertaken focused on driving operational efficiencies and long-term growth Restructuring included the absorption and integration of staff as well as contractor spend focused on enhancing business performance within the Finance and Technology functions”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
2 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BABAYEV, Arif | Director | 2018-01-17 | Jun 1983 | British |
| ZHAGIPAROV, Nurlan | Director | 2018-07-18 | Nov 1977 | Kazakh |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEDDELL, Scott | Secretary | 2019-09-18 | 2020-12-23 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dna Bidco Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-05-25 | Active |
| Nurlan Zhagiparov | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2018-07-18 | Ceased 2021-05-25 |
| Mr Arif Babayev | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2018-01-17 | Ceased 2021-05-25 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 75 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-04-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-03-13 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-02-19 | RP01SH01 | miscellaneous | Legacy | |
| 2026-02-03 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2026-01-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-12-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-11-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-08-27 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-06-17 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-06-05 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-12-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-12-17 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-11-08 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-11-06 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-08-12 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-06-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-31 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 12
- Capital events
- 12
- 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+21.2%
£25,985,331 £31,495,789
-
Cash
+40.8%
£6,064,235 £8,537,506
-
Net assets
+11.2%
£29,509,170 £32,815,352
-
Employees
+5.9%
287 304
-
Operating profit
+7.7%
-£20,884,703 -£19,273,127
-
Profit before tax
+8.2%
-£20,990,230 -£19,263,975
-
Wages
+5.4%
£13,492,459 £14,226,713
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