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
39 Waterloo Road, Smethwick, West Midlands, B66 4JU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0121 679 8655 is
- Who else gives the postcode B66 4JU
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Shaheen Exchange & Travel 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
- 09407727 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 27 January 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 39 Waterloo Road, Birmingham, B66 4JU
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gul Rehman | Director | Mar 1988 | 27 Jan 2015 | 1 other company |
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 company
- 1
- closed down
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, 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
£24.2k
Up £23.2k from £1,005
Employees (average)
5
Same as 5
Owed within a year
£30.2k
+237% from £8,967
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 09407727. 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
Shaheen Exchange & Travels’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
28 August 2019
- Began trading as "Shaheen Exchange & Travel"
FCA register
2018
3 September 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- No longer regulated by the FCA
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Gul Rehman took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
31 July 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
27 January 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Supervised by HMRC under the money laundering rules from this date
- Gul Rehman appointed as a director
Companies House · FCA register
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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In the Birmingham (B) postcode area
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 9 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