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
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Highdown House, Yeoman Way, Worthing, West Sussex, BN99 3HH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode BN99 3HH
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- EQ Global Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- EQPay Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Equiniti Global 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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- 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
- h) Issuing Electronic Money
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
- 06135586 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 March 2007 (19 years old)
- Registered office
- Highdown House, Yeoman Way, Worthing, West Sussex, BN99 3HH, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard James Pearson | Director | Feb 1966 | 11 Oct 2022 | 11 other companies |
| Ian Denis Cox | Director | Feb 1982 | 9 Dec 2024 | 2 other companies |
| PRISM COSEC LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 26 Aug 2020 | – |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 13
- closed down
- 3
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 13 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register
- All 22 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Equiniti Global Payments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
23 November 2018
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
4 July 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Equiniti Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2007
2 March 2007
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 49 events
- All 49 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 42
Firms connected to Equiniti Global Payments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Equiniti Global Payments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- past link
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Equiniti Global Payments
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Worthing
In the Brighton (BN) postcode area
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- 13 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- All 49 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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