CB Payments Ltd
Reference number: 900635
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
- Authorised for 8 years
- Your funds are safeguarded
- Active company since 2015
- 1 FCA action
- Its phone number is also given by a firm that is no longer authorised
- One of its directors is also a director of a firm that is no longer authorised
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Also registered under the Money Laundering Regulations
This company holds another FCA record
A company can hold several FCA records, covering different parts of its business, and each one carries its own permissions and protection. The reference number you were given decides which record applies to you.
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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Phone number
Also given by a firm that is no longer authorised. Check you are dealing with the firm on this page.
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Address
The Scalpel, 18th Floor, 52 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7AF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When coinbase.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0808 168 4635 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Whether EC3M 7AF is a shared office: 30 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Coinbase Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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 (10)
- +31 637 827 703
- +353 5157 1608
- +353 5157 1616
- +41 315 083 204
- +61 290 670 619
- 0161 818 1110
- 020 7971 100
- 020 8097 6293
- 07405 588549
- 07766 855941
Fake email addresses (7)
- anthonycollins@coinbaseie.com
- business@bitlet.net
- casey.jones@coinhosts.io
- daniel.smith@coinhosts.io
- martinharvey@coinbaseie.com
- support@backchain.cc
- support@bitlet.net
Fake websites (2)
- bitlet.net
- coinhosts.io
The 3 FCA warnings these came from
- bitlet.net 27 February 2025
- Coinbaseie 9 February 2024
- Coinhosts Inc 15 September 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 (8 permissions)
- a) Services enabling cash placement on a payment account
- b) Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account
- c) Execution of payment transactions (not covered by a credit line)
- d) Execution of payment transactions (covered by a credit line)
- e) Issuing payment instruments or acquiring payment transactions
- f) Money remittance
- g) Execution of payment transactions via telecoms, IT system or network operator
- h) Issuing Electronic Money
Limits on what they may do
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CB Payments Ltd will not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, provide the following service:
Operate a machine which utilises any automated processes to exchange Cryptoassets for Money or Money for Cryptoassets.
FCA disciplinary action
FCA action
- fine
- 1
- in fines
- £3.50m
- most recent
- July 2024
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Fined £3.5m on 25 July 2024
This Final Notice refers to a breach of Statement of Principle 2 related to breaches of voluntary requirements (VREQ) in the e-money sector. We imposed a financial penalty of £3,503,546.
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
- 09708629 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 July 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- The Scalpel, 18th Floor, 52 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7AF, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Data processing, hosting and related activities (SIC 63110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alesia Jeanne Haas | Director | Dec 1976 | 3 Dec 2018 | 2 other companies |
| Daniel Seifert | Director | Jul 1979 | 27 Jul 2023 | None |
| David Farmer | Director | Apr 1989 | 20 Dec 2023 | None |
| Philip Akinyeye | Director | Sep 1987 | 13 Feb 2024 | None |
| Sean Edward Martin | Director | Aug 1965 | 8 May 2024 | 1 other company |
| Keith Michael Grose | Director | Oct 1988 | 5 Sep 2024 | 3 other companies |
| Laurence David Krieger | Director | Oct 1972 | 21 May 2026 | 13 other companies |
| Usman Naeem | Director | Jul 1988 | 29 May 2026 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by these 8 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
- 20
- closed down
- 5
- are FCA-registered
- 8
In the full report: all 20 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 8 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 8 on the FCA register, including 3 no longer authorised
- All 21 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
CB Payments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
3 February 2025
- FCA imposed a requirement (CB Payments Ltd will not, without the prior written consent of the Authority, provide the following service:)
FCA register
2024
25 July 2024
- Fined £3.5m by the FCA
FCA register
2021
15 September 2021
- FCA warned the public about a scam impersonating this firm
FCA warning list
2018
12 July 2018
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2016
23 May 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2015
29 July 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 43 events
- All 43 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 34
Firms connected to CB Payments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with CB Payments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 5
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share a director
- 5
In the full report: all 5 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (5), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 4 past links through former directors
Firms like CB Payments
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 20 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- All 43 events in its history
- 5 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
- FCA notice: fined £3.5m on 25 July 2024 fca.org.uk
- FCA warning: bitlet.net fca.org.uk
- FCA warning: Coinbaseie fca.org.uk
- FCA warning: Coinhosts Inc 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