Bibby Foreign Exchange Limited
Reference number: 671893
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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
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Phone number
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Address
Bibby Foreign Exchange Limited, Academy Place, 1-9 Brook Street, Brentwood, Essex, CM14 5NQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When bibbyfinancialservices.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01277 289010 is
- Who else gives the postcode CM14 5NQ
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 (5 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)
- 4. Executing payment transactions (credit line)
- 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
- 09353026 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 December 2014 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 3rd Floor Walker House, Exchange Flags, Liverpool, L2 3YL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Stuart Ramsden | Director | Apr 1970 | 12 Dec 2014 | 37 other companies |
| Theovinder Singh Chatha | Director | Dec 1980 | 23 Sep 2019 | 53 other companies |
| BIBBY BROS. & CO. (MANAGEMENT) LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 12 Dec 2014 | – |
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
- 60
- closed down
- 14
- are FCA-registered
- 19
In the full report: all 60 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 19 on the FCA register
- The 30 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£2.31m
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Profit before tax
£772k
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Net assets
£1.94m
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Cash at bank
£2.30m
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* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
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 09353026. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Bibby Foreign Exchange’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
2 May 2018
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Bibby Financial Services (FX) Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
1 May 2015
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
16 February 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2014
12 December 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 15 events
- All 15 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
Firms connected to Bibby Foreign Exchange
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Bibby Foreign Exchange. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 12
- share a director
- 12
In the full report: all 12 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (12)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Bibby Foreign Exchange
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In the Chelmsford (CM) postcode area
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- 60 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 15 events in its history
- 12 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
- 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