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Aperta

Aperta is a business software developer based in North Lanarkshire, incorporated in Scotland in 1992 (SC136758).

What they do

“Aperta is an acknowledged leader in providing secure payment processing solutions to financial and commercial institutions worldwide.”

In its own words, on aperta.com

Financials

Net assets
£13.5m (31 Jul 2025), up 5% on £12.8m a year earlier
Cash at bank and in hand
£9.3m (31 Jul 2025), down 2% on £9.5m a year earlier
Employees
49 on average (31 Jul 2025), up 2% on 48 a year earlier

Net assets at year ends 2024 to 2025

Next accounts due 30 Apr 2027.

1 charge registered at Companies House as outstanding: security over the company's assets for borrowing or another obligation, per the 1 Oct 2026 register snapshot. See the charges

From the accounts made up to 31 Jul 2025, small-company accounts, as tagged in the filing. Small companies file a balance sheet and often no turnover or profit. The filings at Companies House

Accounts, year by year

Year endNet assetsCashStaff
31 Jul 2025£13.5m£9.3m49
31 Jul 2024£12.8m£9.5m48

Only the figures each year's filed accounts tag; a blank is a figure the company did not file. The filings at Companies House

Timeline

  1. 31 Jul 2025accountsAccounts year end
  2. 31 Jul 2024accountsAccounts year end
  3. 16 Jun 1993directorColin George Best appointed Director
  4. 12 Mar 1992directorJames Murray appointed Director
  5. 12 Mar 1992directorJohn Martin Wylupek appointed Director
  6. 12 Mar 1992directorStephen Meechan appointed Director
  7. 21 Feb 1992incorporatedAperta incorporated as SC136758

Register facts, funding, grants and the latest news, each linked or sourced. The data file holds the register facts, funding and grants only.

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Record completeness 64 of 100; not yet held: three years of accounts, turnover, news coverage, funding rounds.

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On the record

Licensed to sponsor visas (Global Business Mobility: Graduate Trainee, Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)

Home Office sponsor register

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2025

30 Apr 2026 · Companies House

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2024

30 Apr 2025 · Companies House

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2023

30 Apr 2024 · Companies House

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2022

31 May 2023 · Companies House

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2021

29 Apr 2022 · Companies House

Total exemption full accounts filed for the year to 31 July 2020

30 Apr 2021 · Companies House

Incorporated at Companies House

21 Feb 1992 · Companies House

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