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
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
372 Edgware Road, London, W2 1EB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 020 3441 4770 is
- Who else gives the postcode W2 1EB
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Ghadeer Exchange Limited Former name: A name it was registered under before.
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 (1 permission)
- 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.
Concerns on the company record
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- Company number
- 08500596 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 April 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- 372 Edgware Road, London, W2 1EB, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmed Yousif | Director | Jan 1968 | 11 Sep 2018 | None |
| Alamzaib Shinwari | Director | Jan 2002 | 12 Feb 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£63.5k
−4.5% from £66.5k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£70.9k
−2.2% from £72.5k
Net assets
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- 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 08500596. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Ldn FX’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
2 August 2019
- Changed its registered name from "Ghadeer Exchange Limited"
FCA register
2018
29 October 2018
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
11 September 2018
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
- Ahmed Yousif took control (75–100% of shares)
- Majed Karim Mohammad gave up control
Companies House
2017
11 May 2017
- Majed Karim Mohammad took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
20 May 2014
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2013
24 April 2013
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
23 April 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (9 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
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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