Palmer Square Capital Management UK Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 4 Coleman Street, 6th Floor, London, EC2R 5AR.
The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
This company is a qualifying entity for the purposes of FRS 102, being a member of a group where the parent of that group prepares consolidated financial statements, including this company, which are intended to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the group. The company has therefore taken advantage of exemptions from the following disclosure requirements:
Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instrument Issues: Interest income/expense and net gains/losses for financial instruments not measured at fair value; basis of determining fair values; details of collateral, loan defaults or breaches, details of hedges, hedging fair value changes recognised in profit or loss and in other comprehensive income;
Section 33 ‘Related Party Disclosures’: Compensation for key management personnel.
The financial statements of the company are consolidated in the financial statements of Palmer Square Holdings LLC. These consolidated financial statements are available from its registered office, Palmer Square Capital Management LLC, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 315, Mission Woods, KS 66205.
The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.
The management has elected the cost model under Section 20 of FRS 102. In lieu of applying the depreciation requirements of Section 17 Property, Plant and Equipment, the management believes the effective interest method provides more accurate and market-based finance cost calculation. This is completed by applying a constant rate to a changing lease carrying value. Conversely, the straight-line method spreads the amortization evenly over the lease’s life, offering simplicity but less precision. While the entity anticipates it will consume the right of use asset equally over the lease term, for reporting purposes, management believes the effective interest method to be more representative of the benefit pattern.
Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities.
Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.
Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.
Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
At inception, the company assesses whether a contract is, or contains, a lease. A lease arises where the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. Control of the use of an asset occurs where the company has both the right to direct the use of the asset, and the right to obtain substantially all the economic benefits from that use.
Where a tangible asset is acquired through a lease, the company recognises a right-of-use asset and a lease liability at the lease commencement date. Right-of-use assets are included within the same line items on the Balance sheet as owned assets.
The right-of-use asset is initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial measurement of the lease liability adjusted for lease payments made at or before the commencement date less any lease incentives or grants received, plus initial direct costs and an estimate of the cost of obligations to dismantle, remove or restore the underlying asset and the site on which it is located.
The right-of-use asset is subsequently adjusted for remeasurements of the lease liability and applies the relevant cost model as set out within the accounting policies for the applicable asset class. Where the cost model is applied, the asset is depreciated from the commencement date to the earlier of the end of the useful life of the right-of-use asset or the end of the lease term, and is periodically reduced by impairment losses, if any.
The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the lease payments that are unpaid at the commencement date, discounted using the company’s obtainable borrowing rate. Lease payments included in the measurement of the lease liability comprise fixed payments less any lease incentives receivable, and any penalties for early termination of a lease.
At each financial period end, the lease liability is adjusted to reflect payments made and interest accrued. Also, the lease liability is remeasured to reflect lease modifications and any changes to the factors considered at initial measurement, as set out above. When the lease liability is remeasured in this way, a corresponding adjustment is made to the carrying amount of the right-of-use asset, or recognised in profit or loss if the carrying amount of the right-of-use asset has been reduced to zero.
The company has elected not to recognise right-of-use assets and lease liabilities for short-term leases of assets that have a lease term of 12 months or less, or for leases of low-value assets including IT equipment. The payments associated with these leases are recognised in profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
In the comparative period, the company only has operating leases. Rentals payable under operating leases, less any lease incentives received, were charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis was more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leased asset were consumed.
In the current year, the company has early adopted FRS 102 Periodic Review 2024 and it affects the financial statements as follows.
The company has applied the FRS 102 Periodic Review 2024 amendments to Section 20 Leases as an adjustment during the year as the new lease was entered during the year. The impact on the opening balance of retained earnings remained £nil. Comparative information is not restated.
The company’s revised accounting policies for leases are set out in note 1.
The company has entered into a new lease agreement in March 2025 for 3 years. The previous lease was terminated in April 2025 as the company exercised its break clause. As the lease has been changed during the year, there is no impact of early adoption of FRS 102 Periodic Review 2024, and thus, no like comparison for lease expenses for the 2024 period.
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
Lease payments represent rentals payable by the company for an office building. A new lease has been entered into during the year from 3 March 2025 for 3 years. The lease liability is discounted using the company's obtainable interest rate of 3.875%.
The lease is on a fixed repayment basis and no arrangements have been entered into for contingent rental payments. The lease is not permitted to be sublet or assigned.
During the year, the total cash outflow in respect of the new lease totalled £362,631. Interest charged and included in profit or loss account, on the lease liability, amounted to £29,099.
As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006.
The auditor's report is unqualified and includes the following:
On 28 January 2026, subsequent to the reporting date, the Company approved and paid an equity distribution of £778,820 to its parent undertaking.
As the distribution was approved after the reporting date and no obligation existed at 31 December 2025, the transaction represents a non‑adjusting event in accordance with FRS 102 Section 32. Accordingly, no adjustment has been made to the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The company has taken advantage of the exemption under paragraph 1.12 of FRS 102 not to disclose transactions with other group entities.