Optimus Pay Limited
Reference number: 600379
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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
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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Phone number
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Address
Carpenter Court, 1 Maple Road, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7 2DH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When optimuspay.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3955 5400 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode SK7 2DH
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- MTCWORLDONLINE.COM Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
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 number
- 07791110 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 September 2011 (15 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Malcolm Jamieson | Director | Jul 1957 | 10 Jun 2016 | 4 other companies |
| William Innes Tennent | Director | Jun 1956 | 10 Jun 2016 | 4 other companies |
| ONLINE CORPORATE SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 29 Sep 2011 | – |
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
- 7
- closed down
- 5
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 7 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 one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 2 directors run together
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Optimus Pay’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
17 August 2018
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2016
10 June 2016
- Board replaced: both directors left and 2 new directors took over
Companies House
6 April 2016
- Malcolm Jamieson took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2013
30 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2011
29 September 2011
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 15 events
- All 15 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
Firms connected to Optimus Pay
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Optimus Pay. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share a director
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (1), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Optimus Pay
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Stockport
In the Stockport (SK) postcode area
Elsewhere in the UK
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- 7 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 15 events in its history
- 3 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
- 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