Bud Financial Limited
Reference number: 793327
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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
167-169 Great Portland street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When thisisbud.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0113 519 8283 is
- Whether W1W 5PF is a shared office: 136 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Bud. Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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.
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- 7. Payment initiation services
- 8. Account information services
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
- 09651629 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 June 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, England
- Nature of business
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- Other information service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 63990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Maslaveckas | Director | Oct 1989 | 24 Aug 2015 | None |
| George Edward Dunning | Director | Jan 1990 | 4 Dec 2017 | None |
| Stanley Fink (Lord) | Director | Sep 1957 | 3 Oct 2019 | 106 other companies |
| Marc Meunier | Director | Jan 1983 | 12 Oct 2022 | None |
| Maria Trokoudes Wagner | Director | Dec 1977 | 28 Oct 2025 | 9 other companies |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- 115
- closed down
- 51
- went insolvent
- 4
In the full report: all 115 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The 4 that went into liquidation or administration
- The 7 on the FCA register
- All 16 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£5.56m
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£576k
−80% from £2.86m
Owed within a year
£5.92m
No earlier figure to compare
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £5.56m more than it owned.
The accounts for the year to 30 November 2025 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £1.48m, for the year to 30 November 2021.
The accounts for the year to 30 November 2025 do not tag profit before tax in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is −£10.1m, for the year to 30 November 2020.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- Both charts, 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.
Figures from the year to 30 November 2021 are for the group: the company and the businesses it owns. Earlier years are the company’s own accounts, from before it had a group.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 09651629. 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
Bud Financial’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
3 November 2021
- Edward Maslaveckas stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2018
1 February 2018
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2017
3 November 2017
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Edward Maslaveckas became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2015
23 June 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 35 events
- All 35 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 29
Firms connected to Bud Financial
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Bud Financial. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- share a director
- 4
- past links
- 3
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 3 past links through former directors
Firms like Bud Financial
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 115 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 35 events in its history
- 4 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