Connectum Limited

Reference number: 624117

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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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  • No website on the FCA register

  • Phone number

    0118 207 3096

  • Address

    63 St. Mary Axe, London, EC3A 8AA, United Kingdom

In the full report: 2 background checks

  • What kind of line 0118 207 3096 is
  • Who else gives the postcode EC3A 8AA
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FCA permissions and consumer protection

  • Handle payments & transfers Funds safeguarded
    Your 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, free
    You can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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  • 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
  • 2. Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
  • 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
  • 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
  • 6. Money remittance.

Limits on what they may do

  • Voluntary Undertaking (22 May 2024)
    With immediate effect, Connectum Limited (the “Firm”) undertakes: 1. To refrain from, except with the Authority's written consent, undertaking any of the Regulated Payment Services for which it has permission, other than as required to return customer funds pursuant to clause 4, as soon as practicable and in any event by a date to be agreed with the authority. 2. To refrain from, except with the Authority's written consent, recommencing any payment services for any client of the Firm. 3. To refrain from, except with the Authority's written consent, onboarding any New Customers. 4. To return all Relevant Funds as soon as practicable and in any event by a date to be agreed with the authority, except where funds are held to meet specific contractual obligations such as chargebacks. 5. Provide the Authority with a statement to evidence the return of Relevant Funds under paragraph (4) on a weekly basis until all specified relevant funds are returned; 6. To secure and preserve all records and/or information (physical or electronic) relating to payment services and the due diligence on its clients from its systems in their original form, or in a copy proved to be identical to the source material. These must be retained in a form and at a location which is readily accessible by the Firm, such that they can be provided to the Authority, or to a person named by the Authority, promptly on its request. 7. To, by 12pm on 24 May 2024, notify its customers in a form to be agreed with the Authority in advance, setting out the terms and effects of this Undertaking; and 8. To, by 12pm on 24 May 2024, display, in a prominent place on its website https://www.connectum.eu/ (and any other websites it controls), a notice setting out the terms and effects of these Requirements, in a form to be agreed in advance with the Authority. 9. To provide written confirmation to the Authority that it is in compliance with the terms of the Undertaking by the last working day of each week, until such time as it is notified in writing by the Authority that it may cease to do so.

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
08941525
Company status
Active
Company type
Private limited company
Incorporated
17 March 2014 (12 years old)
Registered office
63 St. Mary Axe, Office 216, London, EC3A 8AA, England
Nature of business
  • Other information service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 63990)
  • Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)

Directors and company secretaries

Name Role Born Appointed Other companies
Philip Zimmer (Dr) Director Jun 1966 9 Dec 2020 None
Dmitry Vladimirovich Gololobov (Dr) Director May 1969 26 Oct 2021 None

In the full report: every company its directors have run

  • Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
  • All 6 people who have been directors, with their dates
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Filed accounts and finances

Year to 31 March 2025Full accountsAudited

Turnover

£572k

−94% from £8.90m

Profit before tax

−£4.38m

−437% from £1.30m

Net assets

£4.36m

−48% from £8.42m

Cash at bank

£3.43m

−57% from £7.92m

* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.

Turnover and profit

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
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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 08941525. 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

Connectum’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.

Key events (9) All events (19)

2024

22 May 2024

  • FCA imposed a requirement (Voluntary Undertaking (22 May 2024))

FCA register

2020

23 October 2020

  • Edgars Lasmanis gave up control
  • Sokha Heng took control (75–100% of shares)

Companies House

2018

28 March 2018

  • Became an authorised payment institution

FCA register

2016

6 April 2016

  • Edgars Lasmanis took control (75–100% of shares)

Companies House

11 February 2016

  • No longer supervised by HMRC

FCA register

2014

14 October 2014

  • Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date

FCA register

27 May 2014

  • Regulated by the FCA from this date

FCA register

17 March 2014

  • Incorporated at Companies House

Companies House

In the full report: all 19 events

  • All 19 events in its history (9 shown here)
  • Every director appointment and resignation: 10
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  • Every company its directors have run, named
  • 2 background checks on its contact details
  • 6 years of accounts, charted
  • All 19 events in its history

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Frequently asked questions about this firm

Is Connectum Limited FCA authorised?
Yes, Connectum Limited (FRN 624117) is authorised by the FCA to carry out regulated activities. It has held its current authorisation since March 2018 and works as a payment or money transfer firm. The FCA has placed a limit on what it may do.
What is Connectum’s phone number?
The FCA register lists the phone number 0118 207 3096 for Connectum. If you were given different contact details, use these to check with the firm before going any further.
Is Connectum a scam or clone?
Connectum is a genuine FCA-listed firm, and the FCA has published no warnings about fake versions of it. Scammers do copy real firms, though, so check that any contact details you were given match the ones on the register.
Is my money safe with Connectum?
It depends on the product, but payment and e-money balances should be safeguarded in a separate account, with no upper limit on the protected amount. You can also refer complaints about Connectum to the Financial Ombudsman Service, free of charge.
Who owns Connectum?
Companies House lists one person with significant control of Connectum: Mrs Sokha Heng (75–100% of shares). Before that, it was controlled by Mr. Edgars Lasmanis.
Who runs Connectum?
Companies House lists 2 directors of Connectum: Philip Zimmer (Dr) and Dmitry Vladimirovich Gololobov (Dr).
How long has Connectum been in business?
The company was formed on 17 March 2014, and has held its current FCA authorisation since March 2018.
What do Connectum’s latest accounts show?
Its latest accounts, to 31 March 2025, show turnover of £572k (−94% from £8.90m) and profit before tax of −£4.38m (−437% from £1.30m).

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