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
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
Chaabi UK Limited, 224 Edgware Road, London, W2 1DH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 020 7258 3150 is
- Who else gives the postcode W2 1DH
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Chaabi Money 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)
- 6. Money remittance.
Limits on what they may do
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Agents
Chaabi UK Limited will not onboard any agents.
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.
Concerns on the company record
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Company number
- 14394782 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 3 October 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- 224 Edgware Road, London, W2 1DH, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amine Lamrani | Director | Jan 1982 | 6 Dec 2024 | None |
| Abdelghani Bouanfir | Director | Mar 1960 | 23 Oct 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 5 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£100
Up £100 from £0
Cash at bank
£100
No earlier figure to compare
Its next accounts are overdue at Companies House.
These accounts were filed as dormant: the company reported no significant trading in the period.
Net assets
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 14394782. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Chaabi UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
24 May 2024
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Agents)
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2022
3 October 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Banque Chaabi Du Maroc took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 15 events
- All 15 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
Firms connected to Chaabi UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Chaabi UK. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 5
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share its postcode
- 5
In the full report: all 5 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (5)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Chaabi UK
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In the West London (W) postcode area
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 15 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
- 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