General Softwares Limited
Reference number: 824476
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Registered with the FCA
This firm is registered as a small payment institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller payment firms, and safeguarding of customer money is optional at this size.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
521 Coventry Chambers, 3 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 4QR, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When generalsoftwares.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3150 0284 is
- Who else gives the postcode IG1 4QR
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- GSL MONEY Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers No FSCS coverSafeguarding is optional for a payment firm of this size, so your money may not be held in a separate protected account. Ask the firm whether it safeguards customer funds before sending it money. FSCS protection does not apply either way.
- 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 (5 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.
- 6. Money remittance.
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 name
- GENERAL SOFTWARES LTD
- Company number
- 05050203 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 February 2004 (22 years old)
- Registered office
- 521 Coventry Chambers 3 Coventry Road, Ilford, London, IG1 4QR, England
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
- Information technology consultancy activities (SIC 62020)
- Web portals (SIC 63120)
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pankaj Kumar Awasthi | Director | Jan 1971 | 1 May 2007 | 8 other companies |
| Nidhi Awasthi | Secretary | Not published | 19 Feb 2004 | – |
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
- 8
- closed down
- 6
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 8 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, including one no longer authorised
- All 5 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£506k
−8.7% from £554k
Net assets
£226k
+3.8% from £217k
Employees (average)
3
Same as 3
Owed within a year
£247k
+99% from £124k
Turnover
In the full report: all 6 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 05050203. 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
General Softwares’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
5 February 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Pankaj Kumar Awasthi took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2007
30 April 2007
- Board replaced: its only director left and 2 new directors took over
Companies House
2004
19 February 2004
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms connected to General Softwares
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with General Softwares. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
- past link
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like General Softwares
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Ilford
In the Ilford (IG) postcode area
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- 8 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 16 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