WOLVERINE TRADING UK LIMITED
Company number 03770429 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Wolverine Trading UK Limited operates as a niche, FCA-regulated subsidiary of US-based Wolverine Trading, focused on market-making and proprietary trading in options and derivatives across overseas exchanges. While the company maintains an exceptionally strong balance sheet with minimal leverage and consistent profitability, its 46% decline in net trading income during the volatile 2022 environment — a period that typically benefited market-making firms — suggests firm-specific strategic or positioning challenges. The aggressive dividend policy, distributing over 100% of post-tax profits to the parent, and the critically low cash position indicate the UK entity functions primarily as a regulated European access vehicle rather than a capital-accumulating business, limiting its competitive positioning against better-capitalized peers in the UK proprietary trading sector.
Shareholders' funds
£7,101,698
Balance sheet as at 2022-12-31
What it does
Dealing in financial securities and derivatives
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1999-05-13
- Employees
- 1 (2022 accounts)
- Registered office
- 1 New Street, 4th Floor, London, England, EC2M 4TP
- Postcode
- EC2M 4TP
- Capital
- 1,110,297 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-05-13
- Next due by
- 2027-05-27
Nature of business (SIC)
- 64999 Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified
Officers 8 current · 10 resigned
Previous registered addresses 4
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 1ST FLOOR PAXTON HOUSE 30 ARTILLERY LANE, LONDON, E1 7LS | 2020-03-24 |
| 10TH FLOOR CITY TOWER, 40 BASINGHALL STREET, LONDON, EC2V 5DE | 2011-09-09 |
| 78 CANNON STREET, LONDON, EC4N 6HH | 2006-12-10 |
| 14 DOMINION STREET, LONDON, EC2M 2RL | 1999-07-07 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,276 similar companies in EC
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1999.
Competitors London
This company ranks 41 among financial intermediation not elsewhere classified in London.
The class of 1999
34%
of the 630 companies in this sector incorporated in 1999 are still active today; 64% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
This company's registered activities are in financial services. If it carries on regulated business, it should appear on the FCA's Financial Services Register — the official record of authorised firms.