Acquired Limited
Reference number: 910612
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Glasshouse Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, SK10 4ZE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When acquired.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3982 6580 is
- Who else gives the postcode SK10 4ZE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Acquired.com Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers Funds safeguardedYour money must be kept in a separate safeguarded account. If the firm fails, all safeguarded funds should be returned to you. With no upper limit, unlike the capped amounts under FSCS. Safeguarding works differently from FSCS, but protects your full balance when the rules are followed correctly.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- 7. Payment initiation services
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
- 09660317 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 June 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- Glasshouse Alderley Park, Nether Alderley, Cheshire, SK10 4ZE, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kate Cleavely | Director | May 1978 | 29 Jun 2015 | None |
| Gregory Charles Cox | Director | Jan 1981 | 29 Mar 2021 | 10 other companies |
| Anuj Bhatnagar | Director | Dec 1968 | 14 Oct 2022 | 2 other companies |
| James Nguyen | Director | May 1969 | 17 Apr 2026 | None |
| Thy Tuong Tang | Director | Aug 1979 | 5 May 2026 | None |
| Ezra Chapman | Director | Apr 1975 | 5 May 2026 | None |
| Craig Davis | Director | Apr 1974 | 5 May 2026 | None |
| Michael Christian Ransom | Director | Sep 1972 | 6 May 2026 | 18 other companies |
| Sheraz Afzal | Director | Aug 1979 | 6 May 2026 | 41 other companies |
Other companies run by these 9 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 59
- closed down
- 35
- are FCA-registered
- 10
In the full report: all 59 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 9 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 10 on the FCA register
- The 6 companies these 9 directors run together
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£1.85m
Down £1.75m from −£98.9k
Cash at bank
£615k
+138% from £258k
Owed within a year
£2.02m
−15% from £2.37m
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £1.85m more than it owned.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 09660317. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Acquired’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
12 September 2024
- Ts Acquired Holdings LLC became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2019
17 December 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 May 2016
- Kate Cleavely gained significant control
Companies House
6 April 2016
- Gregory Charles Cox became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2015
29 June 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms connected to Acquired
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Acquired. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 7
- share a director
- 7
- share its postcode
- 6
In the full report: all 7 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (7), the same postcode (6)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 3 past links through former directors
Firms like Acquired
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In the Stockport (SK) postcode area
Elsewhere in the UK
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- 59 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 16 events in its history
- 7 connected firms, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk