Metro Remittance (UK) Limited
Reference number: 509751
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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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Phone number
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Address
Metro Remittance (UK) Ltd, 1st Floor 12 Kensington Church Street, High Street Kensington, London, W8 4EP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When metrorem.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 7368 4490 is
- Who else gives the postcode W8 4EP
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- MetroRemit Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- MetroRemit UK 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 (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.
- Company number
- 04543696 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 24 September 2002 (24 years old)
- Registered office
- Gable House, 239 Regents Park Road, London, N3 3LF
- Nature of business
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- Banks (SIC 64191)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Lim | Director | Nov 1971 | 1 Feb 2013 | None |
| Arsie Manantan Guanzon | Director | Nov 1984 | 31 Jul 2020 | None |
| Achilles Ludivero Bernal | Director | Aug 1972 | 10 Mar 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
- All 15 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£524k
+7.3% from £488k
Cash at bank
£912k
+19% from £769k
Owed within a year
£493k
+30% from £380k
No turnover or profit for the year to 31 December 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £370k turnover and −£131k profit, for the year to 31 December 2020.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 04543696. 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
Metro Remittance (UK)’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
29 January 2018
- No longer regulated by the FCA
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2013
1 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2010
28 January 2010
- Regulated by the Financial Services Authority from this date
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
FCA register
2002
24 September 2002
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 34 events
- All 34 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 25
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- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 34 events in its history
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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