Eqwire UK Limited
Reference number: 901100
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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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Website
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Phone number
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Address
40 gracechurch st, London, EC3V 0BT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When eqwire.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3769 8245 is
- Whether EC3V 0BT is a shared office: 24 other firms give it
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- eqwire Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD Former name: A name it was registered under before.
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
Limits on what they may do
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B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD must ensure that the electronic money that it issues cannot be used to purchase Cryptoassets
B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD hereby applies to the FCA under Regulation 8 of the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the imposition of the requirement on its authorisation set out below (and consents to the same being published by the FCA on the Financial Services Register): 1. B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD must ensure that the electronic money that it issues cannot be used to purchase Cryptoassets or any part or unit thereof. 2. For the purpose of this requirement, 'Cryptoasset' means any cryptographically secured digital representation of value or contractual rights that uses a form of distributed ledger technology and which: a. is fungible; b. is transferable; c. is not any of the specified investments set out in Part III of the Financial Service and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001; d. is not e-money; and e. is not currency issued by a central bank or other public authority.
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
- 12533411 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 March 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- 40 Gracechurch Street, London, EC3V 0BT, 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 |
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| Aleksejs Telepna | Director | Feb 1986 | 12 Jul 2024 | 2 other companies |
| Sophie Murugi Njagi | Director | Dec 1998 | 17 Jul 2026 | None |
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
- 2
- still active
- 2
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 2 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 one on the FCA register
- All 8 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
−£1.57m
Down £375k from −£1.20m
Total equity
£1.31m
−6.3% from £1.39m
Cash at bank
£973k
+1.3% from £960k
Owed within a year
£48.9k
+193% from £16.7k
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 5 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 12533411. 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
Eqwire UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
12 July 2022
- Changed its registered name from "B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD"
FCA register
2020
17 August 2020
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (B2B PAYMENT SOLUTIONS LTD must ensure that the electronic money that it issues cannot be used to purchase Cryptoassets)
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
25 March 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Artur Azizov became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Jurij Ivanov became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 22 events
- All 22 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 14
Firms connected to Eqwire UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Eqwire UK. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 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
Firms like Eqwire UK
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 22 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