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
Balkh Pay, The Type Building Unit 145, 11 Chimney Walk, London, E15 2TP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07523 467447 is
- Who else gives the postcode E15 2TP
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- BPay Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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.
Limits on what they may do
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The firm will not appoint any agents
The firm will not appoint any agents
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
- 16496205 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 June 2025 (1 year old)
- Registered office
- The Type Building Unit 145, 11 Chimney Walk, London, E15 2TP, 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 |
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| Sabauddin Patman | Director | Aug 1997 | 4 Jun 2025 | 6 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
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
- 6
- closed down
- 2
- still active
- 4
In the full report: all 6 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
Key dates in its history
Balkh Pay’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
19 June 2026
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (The firm will not appoint any agents)
- Registered as a small payment institution
- Began trading as "BPay"
FCA register
2025
4 June 2025
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Sabauddin Patman took control (75–100% of shares)
- Sabauddin Patman appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 6 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 8 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
- 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