Plata Capital UK Limited
Reference number: 1029250
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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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Website
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
The Bonhill Building, 4th Floor, 15 Bonhill Street,, EC2A 4DN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- When sokin.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- Who else gives the postcode EC2A 4DN
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sokin 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
Limits on what they may do
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Institution to refrain from AIS or PIS for an indefinite period
Must comply with the requirements in regulation 78A(2)(b)of the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 to refrain from providing account information services or payment initiation services for an indefinite period
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The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors
The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors.
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The firm will not provide payment or electronic money services to an individual who is acting for purposes other than a trade, business or profession
The firm will not provide payment or electronic money services to an individual who is acting for purposes other than a trade, business or profession.
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
- 12566538 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 21 April 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Mishcon De Reya Africa House, 70 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6AH, United Kingdom
- 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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| Vroon Modgill | Director | May 1987 | 21 Apr 2020 | 10 other companies |
| PLATA CAPITAL LIMITED | Corporate director | Not published | 21 Apr 2020 | 1 other company |
| Henry Bellingham (Lord) | Director | Mar 1955 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
| Duran Grant | Director | Dec 1983 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
| Malcolm Edward Leach | Director | Jan 1969 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
| Kumar Gaurav Modgill | Director | Jun 1981 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
Other companies run by these 6 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
- 11
- closed down
- 10
- still active
- 1
In the full report: all 11 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 6 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£100
Same as £100
Cash at bank
£100
Same as £100
These accounts were filed as dormant: the company reported no significant trading in the period.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Net assets
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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 12566538. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Plata Capital UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
26 March 2026
- FCA imposed a requirement (Institution to refrain from AIS or PIS for an indefinite period)
- FCA imposed a requirement (The firm will not appoint any agents or distributors)
- FCA imposed a requirement (The firm will not provide payment or electronic money services to an individual who is acting for purposes other than a trade, business or profession)
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2025
18 February 2025
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2020
21 April 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Plata Capital Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
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- 11 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 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