BCB Payments Limited
Reference number: 807377
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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
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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Phone number
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Address
Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When bcbgroup.io first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3948 6115 is
- Who else gives the postcode WC1B 3DA
Other names (4)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- BCB Group Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- BCBGroup.io Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- BitcoinBro Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- BitcoinBro.com Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
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)
- 07309 328205
Fake email addresses (9)
- alexander.muller@safebtc.company
- bill.foss@safebtc.company
- bill.green@safebtc.company
- btmrefund@gmail.com
- david.norton@safebtc.company
- jan.webber@safebtc.company
- michael.collins@safebtc.company
- nicholas.hoffman@safebtc.company
- support@safebtccompany.com
Fake websites (3)
- safebtc.company
- safebtccompany.business
- safebtccompany.com
The 2 FCA warnings these came from
- SafeBTCCompany 9 May 2022
- BTM Refund 2 August 2021
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 (4 permissions)
- 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 2. Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
- 6. Money remittance.
Limits on what they may do
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No retail consumers
1. BCBPL must not provide or agree to provide a Payment Service to any consumer. 2. For the purposes of paragraph 1 the following terms have the following meanings: a) 'Consumer' has the meaning given to it in Regulation 2 of the Payment Services Regulations 2017 (an individual who, in contracts, for payment services...is acting for the purposes other than trade, business or profession) b) 'Payment Service' has the meaning given to it in Regulation 3 of the Payment Services Regulations 2017.
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
- 11313622 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 17 April 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DA, 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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| Oliver Charles Tonkin | Director | May 1974 | 17 Apr 2018 | 28 other companies |
| Timothy Renew | Director | Jun 1988 | 30 Apr 2026 | 1 other company |
| Vesna Mccreery | Director | Feb 1967 | 19 Aug 2026 | 3 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 31
- closed down
- 15
- went insolvent
- 2
In the full report: all 31 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The 2 that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 3 directors run together
- All 5 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£6.13m
+74% from £3.51m
Cash at bank
£346.2m
+95% from £177.8m
Owed within a year
£348.2m
+95% from £178.5m
* 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 11313622. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
BCB Payments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
2 August 2021
- FCA warned the public about a scam impersonating this firm
FCA warning list
2020
29 April 2020
- Oliver Von Landsberg-Sadie stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2019
19 December 2019
- FCA imposed a requirement (No retail consumers)
FCA register
2018
28 June 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
17 April 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Bcb Group Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Oliver Von Landsberg-Sadie became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 22 events
- All 22 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
Firms connected to BCB Payments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with BCB Payments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like BCB Payments
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 31 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 22 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
- FCA warning: SafeBTCCompany fca.org.uk
- FCA warning: BTM Refund 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