Pleo Financial Services UK Ltd
Reference number: 1020730
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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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Phone number
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Address
Porters Place, 3rd Floor, 11 Saint John Street, Farringdon, EC1M 4AA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When pleo.io first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0330 808 1006 is
- Who else gives the postcode EC1M 4AA
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Pleo 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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Agents and distributors
The firm will not onboard any agents or use any distributors.
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Unrelated payment services
The firm will not provide any payment services which are not related to the issuing of e-money (i.e. unrelated payment services).
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Provision of e-money services
The firm will not issue e-money 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
- 15842283 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 July 2024 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- 3rd Floor 11 St John Street, Farringdon, London, EC1M 4AA, 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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| Vanessa Ann Bailey | Director | Apr 1964 | 16 Jul 2024 | None |
| Adrienne Gormley | Director | Apr 1971 | 16 Jul 2024 | None |
| Soren Westh Lonning | Director | Jun 1977 | 16 Jul 2024 | 2 other companies |
| Paul Joseph Tarrant | Director | Aug 1988 | 1 Oct 2025 | None |
| Martin Richard Cerullo | Director | Jan 1975 | 1 Jan 2026 | None |
| GOODWILLE LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 16 Jul 2024 | – |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- 2
- still active
- 2
In the full report: all 2 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
−£1,211
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Net assets
£1.70m
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Cash at bank
£1.70m
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Employees (average)
0
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* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
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 15842283. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Pleo Financial Services UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
16 May 2025
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Agents and distributors)
- FCA imposed a requirement (Provision of e-money services)
- FCA imposed a requirement (Unrelated payment services)
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2024
16 July 2024
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms connected to Pleo Financial Services UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Pleo Financial Services UK. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Pleo Financial Services UK
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In the Central London (EC) postcode area
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 16 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