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
Gridiron Building, 1 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode N1C 4AG
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Pomelo Pay Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- APPFLEET LTD Former name: A name it was registered under before.
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
- i) Payment initiation services
- j) 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
- 10583935 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 January 2017 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- Gridiron Building, 1 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG, England
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
- Information technology consultancy activities (SIC 62020)
- Other information service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 63990)
- Activities of head offices (SIC 70100)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Maxim J Verraest | Director | Jul 1986 | 25 Jan 2017 | 2 other companies |
| Thibault D'Hondt | Director | Sep 1994 | 2 Apr 2020 | 1 other company |
| Endre Attila Sagi | Director | Jun 1985 | 27 Oct 2021 | 2 other companies |
| Eugene Schreider | Director | Aug 1985 | 25 Feb 2022 | None |
| Stephen James Vickers | Director | Dec 1965 | 3 Jun 2024 | 1 other company |
| Anas Ghanim Aljumaily | Director | Apr 1988 | 27 Feb 2026 | None |
Other companies run by these 6 directors
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- other companies
- 6
- closed down
- 3
- still active
- 3
In the full report: all 6 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
- All 13 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£5.34m
+44% from £3.70m
Profit before tax
−£1.33m
Down £711k from −£623k
Net assets
£1.81m
Up £2.39m from −£586k
Cash at bank
£1.90m
Up £1.81m from £84.9k
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
The figures for the year to 31 December 2024 were read from the printed accounts, because the filing does not tag them in a form that can be read automatically. They were checked against the accounts’ own totals.
These are group figures: the firm and the companies it owns, combined.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 10583935. 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
Pomelo Group’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
23 December 2022
- Endre Attila Sagi gained significant control
- Fomcap IV GP LP became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Vincent Kam Tao Choi stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
29 April 2022
- Changed its registered name from "APPFLEET LTD"
FCA register
2021
31 May 2021
- Simon Maxim J Verraest stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2020
1 December 2020
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
26 October 2020
- Neil James Cuthbert stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
17 June 2020
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2017
1 August 2017
- Vincent Kam Tao Choi became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
25 January 2017
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Neil James Cuthbert became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Simon Maxim J Verraest became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 33 events
- All 33 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 20
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- All 33 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
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