Akoni Hub Limited
Reference number: 766340
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
- Authorised for 8 years
- Your funds are safeguarded
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2016
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2024
- One of its directors is also a director of a firm that is no longer authorised
- On its latest accounts it owed £696k more than it owned
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
This company holds another FCA record
A company can hold several FCA records, covering different parts of its business, and each one carries its own permissions and protection. The reference number you were given decides which record applies to you.
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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Phone number
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Address
Stubben Edge Group Ltd, 77 Cornhill, London, City Of London, EC3V 3QQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When akonihub.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 7846 1378 is, and the 3 other firms that give it
- Whether EC3V 3QQ is a shared office: 21 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Akoni Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Warning
Scammers have impersonated this firm
Fraudsters have used this firm's name or details with their own contact information to appear genuine. Check whatever you were given below, and against the firm's real details above.
Fake phone numbers (1)
- +49 069 661 027 16
Fake email addresses (4)
- contact@akoni-hub.de
- datenschutz@akoni-hub.de
- info@akoni-hub.de
- kontakt@akoni-hub.de
Fake websites (2)
- akoni-hub.de
- festgeld.akoni-hub.de
The FCA warning these came from
- Smart Invest by Akoni 14 March 2022
Scammers change these details often. Always check the live FCA warning.
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 (2 permissions)
- 6. Money remittance.
- 8. Account information 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.
The clone warnings above are scammers using this firm's name, not something the firm has done.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 10462207 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 November 2016 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- 77 Cornhill, 7th Floor, London, EC3V 3QQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial management (SIC 70221)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Rose Barretto | Director | May 1975 | 23 Mar 2022 | 7 other companies |
| Christopher Arthur Berkeley Kenning | Director | Mar 1983 | 23 Mar 2022 | 23 other companies |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 24
- closed down
- 1
- are FCA-registered
- 7
In the full report: all 24 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 7 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 6 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 9 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
−£696k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£7.25m
+4.2% from £6.96m
Owed within a year
£8.10m
+17% from £6.93m
Total equity is negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £696k more than it owned.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Total equity
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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 10462207. 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
Akoni Hub’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
23 March 2022
- Akoni Holdings Limited gave up control
- Stubben Edge Payments Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
14 March 2022
- FCA warned the public about a scam impersonating this firm
FCA warning list
2018
20 July 2018
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
2 May 2018
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
5 November 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
4 November 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Akoni Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 25 events
- All 25 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 16
Firms connected to Akoni Hub
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Akoni Hub. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 8
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share a director
- 7
In the full report: all 8 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (7), the same phone number (3), the same postcode (7)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Akoni Hub
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 24 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 25 events in its history
- 8 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
- FCA warning: Smart Invest by Akoni fca.org.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