How our services are regulated
Shuttlevest is a technology company. The regulated parts of what we offer are delivered by licensed partners. This page explains exactly who does what, which protections apply to your money, and which do not.
1. Who we are
Shuttlevest Limited ("Shuttlevest", "we", "us") is a private company limited by shares, registered in England and Wales under company number 17498721. Our registered office is 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom.
You can verify our company registration on the public Companies House register at find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
Shuttlevest builds financial technology: the mobile app, the dashboard that brings your money into one view, the AI coaching experience, the goal-tracking tools and the educational content. That is our role in everything described below.
2. Our regulatory status
Shuttlevest Limited is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and does not appear on the Financial Services Register in its own right.
We are not a bank, a building society, an e-money institution, a payment institution, an investment firm, a broker, a custodian or a financial adviser. We do not hold or control your money, and we do not hold your investments.
We want to be direct about this because it matters. Some apps give the impression that they are themselves regulated when the regulated activity actually sits with a partner behind the scenes. We would rather you knew precisely where you stand from the start.
If and when Shuttlevest applies for, or obtains, any authorisation in its own name, we will say so on this page and publish the firm reference number so you can check it yourself.
3. How regulated services are delivered
Shuttlevest operates a partner-led model. This is a common and well-established structure in financial technology. It works like this:
Shuttlevest provides the technology
The app, the interface, the money dashboard, the AI coach, goals, insights, educational content, and day-to-day customer support.
Our regulated partners provide the financial service
Holding money, issuing accounts, executing payments, converting currency, and holding or dealing in investments — each performed by a firm authorised to do it in that market.
You contract with both of us
You agree Shuttlevest's terms for the app. You separately agree the partner's terms for the regulated service. We will always make it clear which is which before you sign up.
Each partner is authorised and supervised by the financial regulator in the market where the service is offered — for example the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, or the relevant securities, banking or payments regulator in other markets. Partners are selected through a due diligence process that reviews their licence and permissions, their financial standing, their safeguarding and client-money arrangements, their security and operational resilience, and their track record.
Why our partners are not named yet
Shuttlevest is pre-launch. Partner agreements are still being finalised, and we will not publish a partner's name, licence details or logo until the agreement is signed and that partner has approved how we describe them. Naming a firm before then would be misleading, and it would not be fair to the firm.
Before we open any regulated service to customers, this page will be updated to show, for each partner: their full legal name, the country they are authorised in, their regulator, their firm reference or licence number, a direct link to the public register entry so you can verify it independently, and exactly which service they provide.
4. Who provides what
The table below sets out each planned service, who will provide it, and what that means for you. Everything in the "Provided by" column marked as a partner is a regulated activity that Shuttlevest will not carry out itself.
| Service | Provided by | What this means for you | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-currency accounts and balances Holding GBP, USD, EUR and other currencies |
Regulated partner An authorised electronic money institution or bank |
Your money is held by the partner, not by Shuttlevest. It is held under that partner's safeguarding or deposit rules. Electronic money is not a bank deposit and is not covered by the FSCS. See section 5. | Planned |
| Cross-border transfers and currency conversion | Regulated partner An authorised payment institution or bank |
The payment is executed by the partner under its own licence and terms. Exchange rates, fees and delivery times are disclosed before you confirm any transfer. | Planned |
| Investing and investment accounts Buying and holding investments |
Regulated partner An authorised broker, dealer and/or custodian |
Orders are executed and your investments are held by the regulated partner, typically as custodian. Investing puts your capital at risk. See our risk disclosure. | Planned |
| Identity, eligibility and anti-money-laundering checks | Regulated partner + Shuttlevest Specialist verification providers |
We and our partners must verify who you are before you can use a regulated service. This is a legal requirement and cannot be waived. See section 7. | Planned |
| AI money coaching and insights | Shuttlevest | Guidance and information only — not regulated financial advice and not a personal recommendation. It does not take account of your full circumstances. See section 6. | Planned |
| Goals, budgeting and money tracking | Shuttlevest | Software tools to help you organise and track your money. Not a regulated activity. | Planned |
| Financial education content | Shuttlevest | General educational material. Not advice, and not tailored to your circumstances. | Planned |
| The app, your dashboard and customer support | Shuttlevest | We build and run the product and are your first point of contact. Some issues must be escalated to the relevant partner, and we will tell you when that happens. | Planned |
"Planned" means the service is in development and not yet available. No service listed above is currently being offered to the public.
5. What protects your money — and what does not
This is the part people most often get wrong, so we have set it out plainly.
FSCS deposit protection
Does not apply to electronic money
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme protects eligible deposits held with UK banks and building societies, currently up to £85,000 per person per institution. Electronic money is not a deposit and is not covered by the FSCS. If a service is delivered by an e-money partner rather than a bank, FSCS deposit protection does not apply to that balance.
Safeguarding
Applies to e-money and payment balances
Authorised electronic money and payment institutions must keep customer funds separate from their own, either in a segregated account at a credit institution or covered by an insurance policy or guarantee. If the firm fails, safeguarded funds are intended to be returned to customers ahead of other creditors. It is a different protection from the FSCS, and it is not a guarantee that you will get everything back or get it immediately.
FSCS investment protection
May apply, in limited circumstances
Where investments are held by a UK-authorised firm, FSCS investment cover may apply if that firm fails and cannot return your assets — currently up to £85,000 per person per firm. It does not protect you against investment losses. If your investment falls in value, that is not something the FSCS compensates you for. Cover depends on the partner, the product and your country of residence, and we will state the position for each partner once named.
Protection against investment loss
Never applies
No scheme, partner or protection anywhere covers you for the market value of an investment going down. You can lose money, including all of it. Read our risk disclosure before you invest anything.
The protections that apply to you depend on which partner provides the service, which product you use, and where you live. The exact position for each partner and each market will be published on this page and shown in the app before you open an account. If you are outside the United Kingdom, UK schemes such as the FSCS and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be available to you at all.
6. We do not give financial advice
Shuttlevest provides information, tools, education and AI-generated guidance. None of it is regulated financial advice and none of it is a personal recommendation.
A regulated personal recommendation takes account of your full financial circumstances, your objectives, your existing commitments, your tax position and your tolerance for risk, and it is given by a firm authorised to give it. Shuttlevest does none of this.
Specifically, our AI coach:
- gives general guidance based on the information available to it in the app;
- will tell you when it is uncertain, and will explain the reasoning behind what it says;
- will not tell you to buy or sell a specific investment as a recommendation for you;
- can be wrong, incomplete or out of date, and should not be your only source;
- is not a substitute for a regulated financial adviser, an accountant or a solicitor.
If you need advice on your own situation, please speak to a suitably qualified professional. In the UK you can find a regulated adviser through the FCA's Financial Services Register, and free impartial money guidance is available from MoneyHelper.
7. Identity checks, eligibility and financial crime controls
Financial services are subject to anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing law. Before you can use a regulated service through Shuttlevest, you and our partner will need to complete checks. These include:
- verifying your identity and your address;
- confirming your country of residence and your eligibility for the specific product;
- screening against sanctions lists and politically exposed person lists;
- understanding the source of your funds where required;
- ongoing monitoring of activity for signs of fraud or financial crime.
These checks are a legal obligation, not a preference. We or our partners may decline an application, limit a service, or suspend an account where we are required to, and there are circumstances in which the law prevents us from explaining why.
Services will only be available in markets where our partners hold the right permissions. Availability depends on where you live, and a service being described on this website does not mean it will be available to you.
8. This website is not a financial promotion
This website describes a product in development and invites people to join a waitlist for news about it. It is not an offer, an inducement or an invitation to engage in investment activity, and it is not an offer of any payment, e-money or banking service.
When Shuttlevest begins to promote specific regulated products, those communications will be issued or approved by an appropriately authorised firm where the law requires it, and will carry the risk warnings and disclosures that the relevant rules demand.
Joining the waitlist creates no contract, no account, no entitlement to any product, and no obligation on you. You can leave at any time.
9. If something goes wrong
If you are unhappy with Shuttlevest — the app, our content, our support or how we have handled your data — contact us at complaints@shuttlevest.com and we will follow the process set out in our complaints policy.
If your complaint is about a regulated service — money held, a payment made, an investment executed — it will usually need to be handled by the regulated partner that provided it, because they are the regulated firm responsible for that activity. We will pass your complaint on, tell you who is handling it, and stay involved. Regulated partners operate their own complaints procedures and, where eligible, their customers may be able to refer a complaint to an independent ombudsman or dispute resolution scheme. In the UK this is the Financial Ombudsman Service. We will confirm the applicable route for each partner once named.
Because Shuttlevest Limited is not itself an FCA-authorised firm, complaints about Shuttlevest's own non-regulated activities are not eligible for referral to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
10. Keeping this page accurate
This page is maintained as the authoritative statement of how Shuttlevest's services are regulated and by whom. We will update it whenever a partner is appointed or changed, a service launches or closes, a protection changes, or our own regulatory status changes.
If anything here is unclear or appears to be out of date, please tell us at hello@shuttlevest.com. We would rather fix it than have you rely on something wrong.
Questions about how this works?
If you are a prospective partner, a regulator, an investor or a customer with a question about our structure, we are happy to talk.