Registered with the FCA
This firm is registered as a small payment institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller payment firms, and safeguarding of customer money is optional at this size.
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
60 Hill Street, Newry, County Down, BT34 1BE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 028 3026 6888 is
- Who else gives the postcode BT34 1BE
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- AOFX BUREAU DE CHANGE Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Alice Oliver Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers No FSCS coverSafeguarding is optional for a payment firm of this size, so your money may not be held in a separate protected account. Ask the firm whether it safeguards customer funds before sending it money. FSCS protection does not apply either way.
- 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)
- 6. Money remittance.
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
- NI661230 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 8 May 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- 82 Killeavy Road, Newry, BT35 6EU, Northern Ireland
- Nature of business
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- Administration of financial markets (SIC 66110)
- Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 66190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Anthony Heaphy | Director | Mar 1987 | 8 May 2019 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£142k
+23% from £116k
Employees (average)
8
+167% from 3
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company NI661230. 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
Alice Oliver’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
3 April 2023
- Changed its registered name from "Alice Oliver Ltd"
FCA register
2021
4 June 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
- Changed its registered name from "Alice Oliver Limited"
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
19 May 2021
- Began trading as "AOFX BUREAU DE CHANGE"
FCA register
2019
8 May 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Brian Anthony Heaphy took control (75–100% of shares)
- Brian Anthony Heaphy appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Alice Oliver
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Alice Oliver. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Alice Oliver
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Newry
In the Belfast (BT) postcode area
Firms are listed by type and location, best known first. Being listed is not a recommendation: check any firm before you deal with it.
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 9 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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