On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
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
66 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07970 708803 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode W1T 3EQ
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Clearwell Capital Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Clearwell Finance Plc Former name: A name it was registered under before.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
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 name
- CLEARWELL FINANCE LIMITED
- Company number
- 10774032 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 May 2017 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- 66 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward William Marley Shaw | Director | Feb 1974 | 16 May 2017 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by its director
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 company
- 1
- closed down
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1.02m
<1% from £1.03m
Cash at bank
£30
Down £44 from £74
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Owed within a year
£26.0k
−6.5% from £27.8k
No turnover or profit for the year to 31 August 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £87.0k turnover and £33.0k profit, for the year to 31 August 2022.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 10774032. 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
Clearwell Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
4 October 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Clearwell Finance Plc"
FCA register
2020
31 March 2020
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2018
14 May 2018
- Clearwell Capital Group Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
- Edward William Marley Shaw gave up control
Companies House
2017
16 May 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Edward William Marley Shaw took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
Firms connected to Clearwell Finance
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Clearwell Finance. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 12 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk