Registered with the FCA
Brian Hannon 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
5 Acer Avenue, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2 5JQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01892 512813 is
- Who else gives the postcode TN2 5JQ
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Kells Financial Services 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)
- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
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.
Key dates in its history
Brian Hannon’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
1 November 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
10 April 2019
- Began trading as "Kells Financial Services"
FCA register
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms like Brian Hannon
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Tunbridge Wells
In the Tonbridge (TN) postcode area
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.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