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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
242 Regents Park Road, London, N3 3HP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07877 001677 is
- Who else gives the postcode N3 3HP
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Avisa Exchange Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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 (1 permission)
- 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
- 09626037 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 5 June 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 242 Regents Park Road, London, N3 3HP, England
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of other second-hand goods in stores (not incl. antiques) (SIC 47799)
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morteza Shabani | Director | Feb 1973 | 5 Jun 2015 | 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
- closed down
- 2
- still active
- 1
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
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1,183
Up £1,295 from −£112
Cash at bank
£7,532
Up £6,771 from £761
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Owed within a year
£6,349
Up £5,476 from £873
Net assets
In the full report: all 8 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2026
- 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 09626037. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Regents Sarafi’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
10 May 2021
- Began trading as "Avisa Exchange"
FCA register
2018
22 May 2018
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
9 January 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Morteza Shabani took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
5 June 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Morteza Shabani appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 3 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 8 years of accounts, charted
- All 6 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