British fintech Payrow launches banking services for businesses with complex ownership structures
Payrow, a new British fintech that provides banking services for entrepreneurs and flexible workers, announces banking services support for businesses with complex ownership structures. Leveraging its strong market experience, Payrow is now ready to onboard businesses with complex ownership structures in the United Kingdom. With a team of experts specialising in dealing with such businesses and strong KYC processes, Payrow can efficiently upload the required number of beneficiaries during business registration and easily offer all the necessary banking services from day one.
Complex ownership structures are often found within companies with different overseas departments or companies linked together by a chain of ownership. These companies will often have several layers of corporate officers, shareholders and PSCs (Persons of Significant Control), which makes identifying the owners fairly difficult.
Here is an example of a complex ownership structure:
The diagram shows multiple levels of indirect ownership:
- The blue boxes in the middle (AB, BC, and CD) are beneficiary companies.
- Mr. B has a 36,5% interest in the target company (50% x 73% = 36,5%)
- Mr. D has 50% and Mrs. C has 9%.
- Mrs. C has both direct and indirect interests in the EFG Group.
This lack of transparency deters many traditional and challenger banks from offering banking services to businesses with complex ownership structures, as even basic services like opening a bank account require long waiting times and paperwork. If a bank does agree to work with a complex structure company, opening a bank account will often mean long waiting, submitting a lot of paperwork and potentially experiencing service problems.
Dinu Popa, head of compliance and MLRO at Payrow comments: “Business needs in our markets are constantly changing, and at Payrow we are perfectly equipped to support complex ownership structures. With our new service, these businesses don’t have to jump through so many hoops and gather endless paperwork trails. Payrow’s exceptional ability to work with complex ownership stems, firstly, from the team’s extensive experience in working with large corporate structures. Secondly, our unique onboarding technology facilitates breaking down complex structures, and, with the help of best-in-class identity verification providers – securing compliant onboarding. Lastly and perhaps most important, is the personal touch of a dedicated complex structures team being there for our customers with answers and expert knowledge.”
About Payrow
Payrow is a British fintech providing a business banking service tailored to the fast-growing number of entrepreneurs, consultants, remote workers and freelance specialists. The platform offers a wide range of financial services and a convenient, reliable and affordable ecosystem for its users. Payrow allows you to manage payments with a high level of security, create invoices, and process taxes. Payrow uniquely optimised financial flows provide support at every stage of the business cycle.
