On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
- Registered for 11 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2015
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
- Its whole board of directors changed in October 2024
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
5th Floor, 6 St. Andrew Street, London, EC4A 3AE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0808 234 0487 is
- Who else gives the postcode EC4A 3AE
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- 2Checkout Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- 2CO Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 09398303 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 20 January 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- Joshna House, Crowbridge Rd., Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0GR, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bart Damstra | Director | Jul 1975 | 29 Oct 2024 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 15 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£100k
Same as £100k
These accounts were filed as dormant: the company reported no significant trading in the period.
Net assets
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 09398303. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
2Checkout (UK)’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
29 October 2024
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
Companies House
2020
25 August 2020
- Board replaced: both directors left and 2 new directors took over
Companies House
2018
13 July 2018
- No longer regulated by the FCA
FCA register
2016
2 December 2016
- Board replaced: its only director left and 3 new directors took over
Companies House
2015
30 November 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
30 June 2015
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
20 January 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 38 events
- All 38 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 29
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 38 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk