Smart Currency Options Limited
Reference number: 656427
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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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Phone number
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Address
9th Floor, 1 Lyric Square, Hammersmith, London, W6 0NB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When smartcurrencybusiness.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 7898 0541 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Whether W6 0NB is a shared office: 21 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Smart Currency Business Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Hold or safeguard your money · Manage or trade investments FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Give regulated advice FSCS may applyA claim for unsuitable advice is itself FSCS-protected, up to the limit that applies to the product you were advised on.
- 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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- Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
- Advising on P2P agreements
- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Dealing in investments as principal
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
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
- 09034947 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 May 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- 9th Floor 1 Lyric Square, London, Greater London, W6 0NB, England
- 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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| John Charles Fairbairn Purdy | Director | Mar 1958 | 12 May 2014 | 16 other companies |
| Alexander James Bennett | Director | Mar 1985 | 30 Dec 2021 | 1 other company |
| Richard Leslie M'Crystal | Secretary | Not published | 2 Aug 2021 | – |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 16
- closed down
- 6
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 16 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 2 directors run together
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Smart Currency Options’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Smart Currency Exchange Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
23 July 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2014
12 May 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 10 events
- All 10 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to Smart Currency Options
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Smart Currency Options. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Smart Currency Options
Other firms of the same type (financial adviser), nearest first.
In the West London (W) postcode area
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- 16 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- All 10 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
- Check your FSCS cover fscs.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk