The directors present the strategic report for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The company primary revenue drivers are as follows:
Spread markup revenue
Commissions
Swap markup premiums
Risk management gains/(losses)
Liquidity and white label solutions for institutional clients – including brokers that offer MT4 and MT5 trading platforms, as well as those trading via FIX
In previous years, the management made significant investments in both our team and infrastructure. The positive impact of these investments have started to became evident through our financial performance in 2025. Turnover increased from £1.95m to "£5.63m, simultaneously," the operating cost base has remained relatively stable, increasing by just 55%, demonstrating the company's ability to effectively manage costs while driving substantial revenue growth. As a result, the company's net profit for the financial year is £116k, compared to a net loss of £1.71m in the prior year.
Principal Risks and Uncertainties
Taurex Limited is UK based, the Firm’s business model maximises the use of the specialist skills and experience within the company, and sophisticated technology provide by its system vendors. Risk Management appetite is controlled via strong governance and oversight, within defined risk parameters approved by the Board.
The main risks identified by the Directors are dealt with individually below:
RISK MANAGEMENT GAINS/ (LOSSES)
Revenue or losses from risk management consists of gains or losses which accrue to the Company through client positions and through gains or losses which accrue due to hedge positions entered into by the Company.
CREDIT RISK
The Company provides services to investors and carefully considers credit risk prior to agreeing individual contracts. All liquidity providers are carefully selected by the Directors to ensure they meet strict requirements in terms of financial stability. The Company also ensures diversification of counterparties to ensure any risk is spread.
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The Company holds financial instruments including cash, trade receivables and payables as detailed in the Balance Sheet.
CURRENCY RISK
The Company does not hedge against variations in exchange rates between currencies.
INTEREST RATE RISK
The Company has no significant interest-bearing debts.
LIQUIDITY RISK
The Company seeks to manage financial risk by ensuring sufficient liquidity is available to meet foreseeable demands. It has done this by providing adequate working capital on a regular basis. The company performs various scenario-based forecasts to ensure we are able to continue trading in spite of the current challenging market conditions.
REGULATORY RISK
The Company deem it as mandatory to satisfy all FCA rules and meet all regulatory requirements.
Taurex Limited is now in a strong position to drive business growth. In 2026, we will continue to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track our progress. Throughout 2025, these metrics were reviewed and reported on a weekly and periodic basis, with regular updates provided to senior management.
Stability:
Capital Ratios (CAR)
Cash balances
Liquidity Ratios: Current Asset Ratio
Operating Cost % (TBC)
Growth:
Top line revenue
Net revenue
Volume
These KPIs will continue to serve as critical benchmarks for assessing both financial stability and business expansion.
The directors of the company have acted in a way that they consider, in good faith, would most likely promote the success of the company for the benefit of its shareholders, employees and customers as a whole, and in doing so, the directors have considered (amongst other matters):
The likely consequences of any decision in the long term: Our plan is designed to have a long-term beneficial impact on the company and to contribute to its success in delivering a good quality service for clients. We will continue to operate our business within tight budget controls and in line with our regulatory targets.
The interest of the company's employees: We believe that employees are fundamental to the delivery of our plan. We strive to offer a nurturing and motivating environment where each employee can develop their skills to the fullest. We encourage our employees to put forward innovative ideas and work with us for the improvement of our products and services. The Firm is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. Our employees and any job applicants receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. The Firm will not tolerate any form of discrimination, nor bullying or harassment. Our Equal Opportunities Policy, and our Bullying, and Harassment Policy form part of our Staff Handbook which is available to staff at all times.
The need to foster the company's business relationships with customer and others: Our engagement with responsible suppliers supports creating sustainable values on our service. By having a stable relationship, we work together to develop innovative new technologies to make our services better in the future. We support our suppliers to be motivated to deliver high quality work, which will deliver the best service to clients in the long term. Clients are at the heart of our business. We will strive for excellence in our client support services ensuring that we continually and consistently deliver fair outcomes to our clients. The cost of trading is one of the most important elements to our clients. The Firm aims to provide pricing which benefits clients while keeping operation costs low, in order to bring about overall benefits to all stakeholders involved. We recognize that client trust is a key factor in maintaining a loyal client base and that this will contribute towards long-term value for our business and stakeholders.
Community & environment: As a member of a financial market, one of our key objectives is to establish a resilient and fair financial market by active commitment to regulatory rule and supervises. Given that the current climate challenge requires every possible action, to the highest extent possible, the Firm’s office and client communications operate under a “paper free environment” principle. This policy has already been in place over a long period of time, minimising the Firm’s impact on the environment and providing the greatest extent of client data protection.
The desirability of the company maintaining a reputation for high standards of business conduct: As the Board of Directors, our intention is to behave responsibly and ensure that management operate the business in a responsible manner, operating within the high standards of business conduct and good governance expected for a business such as ours.
As the Board of Directors, our intention is to behave responsibly toward our stakeholders and treat them fairly and equally.
On behalf of the board
The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.
The results for the year are set out on page 9.
No ordinary dividends were paid. The directors do not recommend payment of a final dividend.
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
The company will continue to serve its existing client base of professional clients whose trades are facilitated on a matched-principal basis via straight-through processing automated processes by maintaining a high standard with an aim to exceed clients’ expectations.
The company recognises that continued investment is key to ensuring that it continues to offer trading services backed by technology. It will also continue to invest in the retention of the key personnel who contribute to the company’s success by introducing competitive employee benefits.
As the company has not consumed more than 40,000 kWh of energy in this reporting period, it qualifies as a low energy user under these regulations and is not required to report on its emissions, energy consumption or energy efficiency activities.
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law, the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
We have audited the financial statements of Taurex Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025 which comprise the profit and loss account, the statement of comprehensive income, the balance sheet, the statement of changes in equity, the statement of cash flows and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Basis for opinion
Conclusions relating to going concern
Other information
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud.
the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the financial services sector;
we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Companies Act 2006, taxation legislation, anti-money-laundering, and employment law;
we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud;
considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations; and
understanding the design of the company’s remuneration policies.
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates as set out in note 2 were indicative of potential bias; and
investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and
reviewing correspondence with HMRC, relevant regulators including the FCA and reviewing the company’s compliance monitoring procedures and findings.
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or through collusion.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
The profit and loss account has been prepared on the basis that all operations are continuing operations.
Taurex Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is 4th Floor 4 Eastcheap, London, England, EC3M 1AE. Company registration number is 11077380.
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 £.
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.
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.
Other financial assets, including investments in equity instruments which are not subsidiaries, associates or joint ventures, are initially measured at fair value, which is normally the transaction price. Such assets are subsequently carried at fair value and the changes in fair value are recognised in profit or loss, except that investments in equity instruments that are not publicly traded and whose fair values cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.
Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.
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.
Derivatives, including interest rate swaps and forward foreign exchange contracts, are not basic financial instruments. Derivatives are initially recognised at fair value on the date a derivative contract is entered into and are subsequently re-measured at their fair value. Changes in the fair value of derivatives are recognised in profit or loss in finance costs or finance income as appropriate, unless hedge accounting is applied and the hedge is a cash flow hedge.
Debt instruments that do not meet the conditions in FRS 102 paragraph 11.9 are subsequently measured at fair value through profit or loss. Debt instruments may be designated as being measured at fair value through profit or loss to eliminate or reduce an accounting mismatch or if the instruments are measured and their performance evaluated on a fair value basis in accordance with a documented risk management or investment strategy.
Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
The profit and loss account relates to the cumulative retained earnings less amounts distributed to shareholders.
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.
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 calculation of the company's current corporation tax charge involves a degree of estimation and judgement with respect of certain items, such as the research and development tax credit, whose tax treatment cannot be finally determined until resolution has been reached with the relevant tax authority. The amount ultimately receivable may be materially different, therefore have an impact on the overall losses and cash flows of the company in future periods.
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 directors do not consider there to be any other critical judgements or key sources of estimation uncertainty involved in the preparation of the company's financial statements.
The company income is derived from trading in CFDs as principal which, for the purposes of segmental analysis, is considered by the director to be a single global market.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
Their aggregate remuneration comprised:
The actual (credit)/charge for the year can be reconciled to the expected charge/(credit) for the year based on the profit or loss and the standard rate of tax as follows:
The company has tax losses carried forward as at 31st December 2025 of £7,748,111 (2024: £7,875,606). A deferred tax asset has not been recognised in respect of the losses due to the uncertainty as to the timing of future taxable profits.
Trade debtors mainly include trading assets held with external counterparties. Other debtors include amounts due from related company £1,079,467 (2024: £165,863) that are unsecured and interest free.
Trade creditors and trading liabilities includes net equity balances of £1,895,078 (2024: £3,584,942).Other creditors represents the amount due to related company £299,960 (2024: £488,269).
The company operates a pension contribution scheme for all qualifying employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund.
During the year the Company issued 3,433,733 (2024: £749,975) £1 ordinary shares at par to provide additional working capital for the Company.
Each share has full rights in the company with respect of voting, dividends and distributions.
At the reporting end date the company had outstanding commitments for future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows:
There were no events to report.
The remuneration of key management personnel is as follows.
Summary of transactions with other related parties
During the year, the company's turnover included fees of £5,548,138 (2024: £683,428) received from Taurex Global Limited. During the year the Taurex Limited paid £776,173 in trading expenses on behalf Taurex Global Limited. At the year end the amount due from the Taurex Global Limited is £1,079,467.
As at the year end amount of £299,959 is due to Zenfinex Bulgaria.
The above companies are related due to common ownership of the shareholders.
As at year end loan amount of £50,000 is due from a shareholder this amount is interest free and is receivable by 30th December 2026.