Setting up in the UK involves more than filing at Companies House. ZEM Global guides founders — UK-based and international — through registration, secretarial obligations, bank account readiness, KYC/KYB documentation, and the fintech & MSB banking questions that generic formation agents don't handle.
Ready to form your UK company properly?
ZEM Global handles the incorporation and the details around it, so your company starts on solid ground.Confirmation statement or a filing overdue?
ZEM Global brings your Companies House record up to date and keeps it that way going forward.Applying for a UK business account?
ZEM Global prepares your application and documentation to give it the best chance of approval, first time.Tired of being asked for documents you don't have to hand?
ZEM Global builds a complete KYC/KYB pack you can reuse across banks, providers and regulators.Struggling to find a bank willing to work with your MSB or fintech?
ZEM Global connects the right banking relationship to a compliance framework that keeps it stable.Setting up a UK company from outside the UK?
ZEM Global manages incorporation, banking and compliance together, remotely, from wherever you're based.Most founders who come to us don’t actually have a registration problem. They have a "nobody told me what comes next" problem — and it usually surfaces at the bank, not at Companies House.
The incorporation itself is quick. What trips founders up is everything around it: a bank account application that gets declined with no real explanation, a confirmation statement deadline that quietly passes, KYC documentation requested for the third time by a third provider, or a non-resident director structure that mainstream banks simply won’t touch. Generic formation agents file the paperwork and disappear before any of that happens.
ZEM Global exists to close that gap — connecting registration, secretarial duties, banking and documentation into one accountable relationship, instead of six disconnected problems.
Each service stands on its own, but the real value is having all six connected — one team that takes you from incorporation through to a working bank account and a compliant company record.
Structure advice and a correctly filed Companies House incorporation — the foundation everything else depends on.
Explore this service →Confirmation statements, statutory registers and change filings — kept current so nothing is missed.
Explore this service →Applications and documentation prepared to pass bank review the first time — not after a decline.
Explore this service →One properly built ownership, ID and source-of-funds pack, reusable across banks, providers and regulators.
Explore this service →Banking relationships for payment institutions, e-money firms and MSBs, linked to your AML/compliance position.
Explore this service →Registration, banking and tax handled remotely and together for founders based outside the UK.
Explore this service →Choosing a formation partner is about more than who files the incorporation. You need people who get you to a working bank account and keep you compliant afterward.
We don’t just file your incorporation and disappear — banking, KYC and secretarial duties are handled as one connected process.
Real experience banking payment institutions, e-money firms and MSBs that mainstream agents typically turn away.
Non-resident directors and overseas founders are a core part of our client base, not an exception we make room for.
KYC/KYB packs, business plans and source-of-funds narratives prepared to actually satisfy onboarding teams.
Registration and banking connected to your AML, tax and FCA/HMRC position from day one — not bolted on later.
Secretarial duties, filings and compliance kept on track well after incorporation, not left for you to remember.
A straightforward five-step process, whether you need one service or all six.
Every founder brings a different setup and banking challenge. We work across a wide range of business types and structures.
Whether you need a UK company incorporated, a bank account application prepared, KYC/KYB documentation built, or a full setup as an international founder — ZEM Global brings all six services together under one accountable team.