On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
- Registered for 4 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2017
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £3.58m more than it owned
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
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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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Mezzanine Floor, St Albans House, 57-59 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4QX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode SW1Y 4QX
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
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
- 10546776 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 January 2017 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- 120 Regent Street, London, W1B 5FE, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Factoring (SIC 64992)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Willmett | Director | Nov 1979 | 4 Jan 2017 | 25 other companies |
| Mark Louis Goldman | Director | May 1954 | 10 Apr 2017 | 23 other companies |
| HAWKSMOOR PARTNERS LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 17 Apr 2025 | – |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 30
- closed down
- 12
- are FCA-registered
- 12
In the full report: all 30 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 12 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 18 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
−£486k
Down £46.0k from −£440k
Total equity
−£3.58m
Down £486k from −£3.09m
Cash at bank
£33.5k
−87% from £257k
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Total equity is negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £3.58m more than it owned.
The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £1.02m, for the year to 31 March 2022.
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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 10546776. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Nucleus Business Cash Advance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
28 March 2023
- Chirag Piyush Shah took control (75–100% of shares)
- Nucleus Commercial Holdings Limited gave up control
Companies House
2022
10 January 2022
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2017
10 April 2017
- Nucleus Commercial Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Simon Willmett gave up control
Companies House
4 January 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Simon Willmett took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to Nucleus Business Cash Advance
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Nucleus Business Cash Advance. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 10
- share a director
- 10
- share its postcode
- 9
In the full report: all 10 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (10), the same postcode (9)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 2 past links through former directors
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- 30 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 11 events in its history
- 10 connected firms, 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk