Africa Global Trade Finance Limited
Reference number: 914468
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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 7 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2016
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2021
- On its latest accounts it owed £2.53m more than it owned
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
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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Website
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
85 GRESHAM STREET, London, EC2V 7NQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When agtf.group first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- Who else gives the postcode EC2V 7NQ
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- AMC Trade Finance Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
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
- 09996682 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 February 2016 (10 years old)
- Registered office
- 85 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors (SIC 64921)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Paul Nahashon Mwai Nguru | Director | Jan 1974 | 26 Nov 2024 | None |
| Deepak Malik | Director | Dec 1957 | 21 Jan 2026 | None |
| Sam West | Director | Jan 1987 | 21 Jan 2026 | None |
| Hendrik Adriaan Loots | Director | Nov 1975 | 12 Jun 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 4 directors run no other company
- All 15 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£2.53m
Down £1.97m from −£565k
Cash at bank
£300k
−10% from £334k
Employees (average)
8
+33% from 6
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £2.53m more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
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 09996682. 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
Africa Global Trade Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
13 April 2026
- Anne-Marie Woolley no longer has significant control
- Deepak Malik gained significant control
Companies House
2023
22 March 2023
- Africa Global Trade Finance Mauritius gave up control
- Anne-Marie Woolley gained significant control
Companies House
2022
2 February 2022
- Changed its registered name from "AMC Trade Finance Ltd"
FCA register
2020
18 November 2020
- Africa Global Trade Finance Mauritius took control (75–100% of shares)
- Amc Finance Holdings Limited gave up control
- Izak Jacobus Visagie no longer has significant control
- Jan Louis Van Den Berg no longer has significant control
Companies House
2019
11 October 2019
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
11 August 2019
- Amc Finance Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
4 July 2019
- Waldo De Vleeschauwer stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
7 February 2019
- Africa Merchant Capital Limited stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Africa Merchant Capital Limited became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Izak Jacobus Visagie gained significant control
- Jan Louis Van Den Berg gained significant control
- Waldo De Vleeschauwer became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
9 February 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 44 events
- All 44 events in its history (18 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 26
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- 2 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- All 44 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