Funding Options Limited
Reference number: 727867
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Authorised by the FCA
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This company holds another FCA record
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Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
4th Floor The Featherstone Building, 66 City Road, London, EC1Y 2AL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When fundingoptions.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0333 344 1015 is
- Who else gives the postcode EC1Y 2AL
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Funding Options by Tide Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- BusinessLending.co.uk Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- Compare Funding Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- Credit Broking
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
- 07739337 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 August 2011 (15 years old)
- Registered office
- 4th Floor The Featherstone Building, 66 City Road, London, EC1Y 2AL, England
- Nature of business
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- Web portals (SIC 63120)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Stuart Spencer Lawson | Director | Dec 1969 | 24 Nov 2022 | None |
| Oliver Rainer Andreas Prill (Dr) | Director | May 1971 | 1 Feb 2023 | 5 other companies |
| Matthew Tataryn | Director | Dec 1993 | 21 Aug 2024 | None |
| Shaun Stephen Mccabe | Director | Oct 1968 | 20 Nov 2024 | 5 other companies |
| Claire Margaret Dimond | Secretary | Not published | 26 Aug 2025 | – |
Other companies run by these 4 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
- 5
- still active
- 5
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 5 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 4 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register
- The 5 companies these 4 directors run together
- All 20 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£19.5m
+120% from £8.88m
Profit before tax
£13.3m
+216% from £4.20m
Total equity
£12.0m
Up £13.3m from −£1.26m
Cash at bank
£7.32m
+511% from £1.20m
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 07739337. 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
Funding Options’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
1 February 2023
- Gli Finance Ltd stopped being a part-owner
- ING Bank N.V. no longer has significant control
- Tide Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2018
22 August 2018
- ING Bank N.V. gained significant control
- North West 4 Digital General Partner Ltd no longer has significant control
- Richard William Traynor stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
30 June 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
6 June 2016
- North West 4 Digital General Partner Ltd gained significant control
Companies House
6 April 2016
- Gli Finance Ltd became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Richard William Traynor became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2011
12 August 2011
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 55 events
- All 55 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 36
Firms connected to Funding Options
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Funding Options. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share a director
- 3
- share its postcode
- 3
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (3), the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Funding Options
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In London
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 55 events in its history
- 3 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk