High-Risk Payment Processor MiFINITY Quadruples Net Income to £8.6M Amidst Aggressive Expansion

Ben
Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:38:44 +0000
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The 2024 financial statements for MiFinity UK Limited reveal an explosion in growth, with net income rising by over 300% to £8.6 million and total assets reaching £76.96 million. This analysis hypothesizes that such abnormal gains are driven by the processor’s aggressive pivot toward facilitating payments for offshore and unlicensed casinos like Legiano and Winning.io.

Financial Analysis 2024: An “Explosive” Year

Filings with Companies House in October 2025 confirm that MiFinity UK Limited (controlled by Irish nationals Paul Kavanagh and Kieron Nolan) has shifted gears from steady growth to hyper-expansion.

Download Mifinity UK Ltd Financial Statements 2024

The numbers are striking. Total assets on the balance sheet surged from £23.23 million in 2023 to £76.96 million in 2024—a massive 231% increase. Net income followed a similar trajectory, quadrupling from £2.11 million to £8.60 million.​

Perhaps most telling is the Gross Profit Margin, which the report cites at a staggering 52.1%. In the low-margin world of standard payment processing (where margins often sit below 5-10%), such profitability is an anomaly typically reserved for high-risk sectors where merchants pay premium fees for access to banking rails.

Compliance Hypothesis: The “High-Risk” Premium

We hypothesize that this financial explosion is not the result of organic retail growth, but rather a strategic decision to dominate the high-risk offshore gambling market.

Our intelligence confirms MiFinity as a primary payment gateway for casinos operating with weak or non-existent EU licenses, such as Legiano (Anjouan/Curacao licensed).

These operators, often blocked by mainstream processors, rely on MiFinity to move funds from restricted jurisdictions (including the UK and EU). The “risk premium” charged to these illegally operating merchants likely fuels the 52.1% gross margin and the sudden accumulation of £77M in assets.​

While MiFinity UK holds an FCA license, its parent Mifinity Payments Limited (Malta) and its ultimate Irish controllers appear to be leveraging the UK entity to process volumes that arguably bypass the spirit, if not the letter, of UK gambling regulations.

Key Financial Data (GBP)

Metric | 2023 (Audited) | 2024 (Audited) | Change
Total Assets | £23,234,953 | £76,960,000 | +231.2%
Net Income | £2,109,639 | £8,600,000 | +307.6%
Gross Profit Margin | ~29.4% | 52.1% | +22.7 pp

According to point “14. Related Party Transactions” of MiFinity UK’s financial statements, the MiFinity Group also includes

Concentric Data Services Ltd in Ireland and Concentric Data Services Malta Ltd;

MiFinity Payments Ltd in Ireland and MiFinity Payments Ltd in Malta.

MiFinitec Caada Ltd

According to the 2024 Financial Statements, the financial (and therefore also operational) interdependencies were intense and remarkable:

MiFinity UK owed Concentric Data Services over GBP 6.8 million;

MiFinity Payments Ltd, in turn, owed MiFinity UK more than GBP 1.4 million (at the end of 2024).

MiFinity Malta Ltd, in turn, owed MiFinity UK more than GBP 14.4 million at the end of 2024.

In this respect, the balance sheets of the individual companies are only of limited significance; rather, one must look at the MiFinity Group as a whole.

Mike Busher, an American born in June 1951, was the founder of MiFinity and was a director of MiFinity UK between 2012 and 2016. At that time, the company was still called NXSYSTEMS LTD. With more than 75% of the shares, Busher was also the controlling entity until February 2017. The ICIJ Offshore Leaks database shows that Michael Christopher “Mike” Busher is or was also a shareholder in Centric Data Services Malta Ltd. Mike Bushner is believed to have died in a plane crash in the summer of 2024.

Comparison indicative only; MiFinity revenue mix may include e-money/FX/wallet fees not comparable to acquiring margin.

Key Data MiFinity Group

Item | Details
Brand | MiFinity (global e‑wallet and payment services brand focused on online payments and gambling sectors).​

Primary domains

https://mifinity.com (including sub‑paths such as /legal, /about, /news, /personal etc.).​
https://www.concentric.global

Core legal entities

MiFinity UK Limited – incorporated in Northern Ireland, trading as MiFinity; authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011, Registration No. 900090.​
Mifinity Malta Limited – incorporated in Malta; authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) as a financial institution/e‑money institution under the Financial Institutions Act, Reg. No. C64824.​
MiFinity Payments Ltd (Ireland)
MiFinity Payments Ltd (Malta)
Concentric Data Services Ltd (Ireland)
Concentric Data Services Malta Ltd (Malta)

Jurisdictions & regulators

United Kingdom – MiFinity UK Limited is an authorised Electronic Money Institution supervised by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011.​
Malta – Mifinity Malta Limited is authorised and regulated by the MFSA as a financial institution / EMI, with passporting for cross‑border services in the EEA.​

Key individuals

Paul James Kavanagh – Irish national; CEO and director of MiFinity UK Limited; publicly identified as co‑founder and key controller of the MiFinity group.​
Kieron (Kieren) John Nolan – Irish national; CFO, director, and co‑founder; identified as person with significant control in UK company data.​
Jim Purcell – Irish national; COO.

Business activities | E‑money issuance, e‑wallet services, payment processing, and merchant acquiring‑type services; supports card payments, bank transfers, alternative methods, and in some constellations crypto‑linked flows.​
| Operates as a high‑risk payment processor, with a pronounced focus on online casinos, gambling, and sports‑betting platforms, including operators in weakly regulated or unlicensed offshore jurisdictions.​

Primary client segment

Online gambling and betting operators (including Curacao/Anjouan and other offshore‑licensed casinos), casino affiliates and related high‑risk merchants that require cross‑border payment processing into and out of the EU/UK.​
End‑users are retail customers using the MiFinity e‑wallet to deposit to and withdraw from these gambling platforms, often in jurisdictions where local licensing is absent or unclear.​

Whistleblower Call to Action

The explosion in MiFinity’s numbers raises urgent compliance questions. We call on insiders, former employees, and partners to share information regarding MiFinity’s onboarding of offshore gambling merchants.

If you have information, please contact us anonymously via Whistle42.