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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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
53 St. Georges Road, London, SW19 4EA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode SW19 4EA
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- PelicanPay 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 (2 permissions)
- 7. Payment initiation services
- 8. Account information services
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
- 10998879 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 5 October 2017 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- 83 Cambridge Street Pimlico, London, SW1V 4PS, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other information technology service activities (SIC 62090)
- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parth Balvantrai Desai | Director | Oct 1963 | 5 Oct 2017 | 3 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
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
- 3
- still active
- 3
In the full report: all 3 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£123k
−17% from £148k
Cash at bank
£108k
Same as £108k
Employees (average)
2
−33% from 3
Owed within a year
£74.0k
−74% from £282k
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 10998879. 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
Pelican Payment Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
1 July 2024
- Parth Balvantrai Desai took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
30 June 2024
- Ace Software Solutions Ltd gave up control
Companies House
2019
11 January 2019
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2017
11 October 2017
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
5 October 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Ace Software Solutions Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 14 events
- All 14 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
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- 3 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 14 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