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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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
77 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5BJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When mercuryo.io first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- Whether EC2R 5BJ is a shared office: 22 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Mercuryo 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.
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- a) Services enabling cash placement on a payment account
- b) Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account
- c) Execution of payment transactions (not covered by a credit line)
- d) Execution of payment transactions (covered by a credit line)
- e) Issuing payment instruments or acquiring payment transactions
- f) Money remittance
- h) Issuing Electronic Money
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
- 10978538 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 September 2017 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- 77 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5BJ, 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 |
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| Megan Linsey Armstrong | Director | Dec 1992 | 27 Sep 2024 | 2 other companies |
| Matthew Tudor Stride | Director | Feb 1972 | 18 Jun 2025 | 3 other companies |
| Matthew Sharpe | Director | Jun 1979 | 21 Aug 2026 | 2 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 6
- still active
- 6
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 6 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 3 directors run together
- All 11 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£4.53m
Not compared: the previous accounts cover a different length of time
Profit before tax
£44.1k
Not compared: the previous accounts cover a different length of time
Net assets
£3.10m
+532% from £490k
Cash at bank
£3.28m
−86% from £22.9m
The previous accounts cover 12 months, so turnover and profit are not compared with them.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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 10978538. 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
Monetley’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
20 February 2023
- Dimitrijs Lapkovskis gave up control
- Mrcr Holdings Ltd gave up control
- Mrcr Holdings Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
- Petr Kozyakov took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2020
9 September 2020
- Aleksandrs Malins stopped being a part-owner
- Dimitrijs Lapkovskis took control (75–100% of shares)
- Igors Astapciks stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2019
28 October 2019
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
25 October 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2017
23 September 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Aleksandrs Malins became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Igors Astapciks became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 32 events
- All 32 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 19
Firms connected to Monetley
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Monetley. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share a director
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Monetley
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
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- 6 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 32 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