Britannia Limited
Reference number: 504455
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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
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Phone number
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Address
9 High Street, London, England, W3 6NG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When britanniia.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3633 8116 is
- Who else gives the postcode W3 6NG
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Mercearia Brasil Limited 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
- 04219301 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 18 May 2001 (25 years old)
- Registered office
- 9 High Street, London, W3 6NG, England
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sayed Arif Hussain Amini | Director | Jul 1991 | 17 Feb 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 6 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£25.7k
+691% from £3,249
Cash at bank
£31.0k
+214% from £9,874
Employees (average)
2
+100% from 1
Owed within a year
£5,264
Up £4,718 from £546
Net assets
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 04219301. 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
Britannia’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
30 July 2025
- Mohammad Esmail Saffi gave up control
- Sayed Arif Hussain Amini took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
17 February 2025
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
Companies House
2024
3 October 2024
- Mohammad Esmail Saffi gave up control
Companies House
22 August 2024
- Mohammad Esmail Saffi took control (75–100% of shares)
- Mukhtar Ahmed Kakar gave up control
Companies House
21 August 2024
- Mukhtar Ahmed Kakar took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2023
11 December 2023
- Changed its registered name from "Mercearia Brasil Limited"
FCA register
18 October 2023
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
- Maria De Fatima Moreira no longer has significant control
- Mukhtar Ahmed Kakar took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2018
9 October 2018
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Maria De Fatima Moreira gained significant control
Companies House
2013
1 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2009
1 November 2009
- Regulated by the Financial Services Authority from this date
FCA register
11 August 2009
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
2001
18 May 2001
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 28 events
- All 28 events in its history (17 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 28 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