Registered with the FCA
This firm is registered as a small e-money institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller e-money firms, though it must still safeguard the money it holds.
Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Unit 101, 242 Acklam Road, London, London, W10 5JJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07824 997850 is
- Who else gives the postcode W10 5JJ
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
- 11269670 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 22 March 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher James Michael Hancock | Director | Apr 1983 | 22 Mar 2018 | 5 other companies |
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 companies
- 5
- closed down
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 5 companies, 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
- The one on the FCA register
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£70.5k
Up £303k from −£232k
Cash at bank
£154
Same as £154
Employees (average)
1
−50% from 2
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2026
- The chart, 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 11269670. 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
Finblocks’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2020
4 November 2020
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Status on the FCA register became "Small Electronic Money Institution"
FCA register
2018
22 March 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christopher James Michael Hancock took control (75–100% of shares)
- Christopher James Michael Hancock appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Finblocks
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Finblocks. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Finblocks
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 5 events in its history
- 2 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