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
Level39 One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When ge.mba first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07451 271705 is
- Whether E14 5AB is a shared office: 26 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- GEMBA 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.
Show FCA detail (4 permissions)
- 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.
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
- 11040011 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 31 October 2017 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- Level39 One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AB, England
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Alexander Legoshin | Director | Apr 1982 | 31 Oct 2017 | None |
| Vladimir Dereviagin | Director | Sep 1982 | 26 Jun 2019 | None |
| Ugis Latsons | Director | Dec 1971 | 26 Jun 2019 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
- All 5 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£306k
−28% from £424k
Profit before tax
−£1.25m
Down £1.06m from −£194k
Net assets
£217k
−45% from £394k
Cash at bank
£173k
Up £164k from £9,185
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
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 11040011. 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
Gemba Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
13 March 2019
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2018
22 March 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2017
31 October 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Alexander Legoshin took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
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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