Sovereign International (UK) Limited
Reference number: 1018910
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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
SOVEREIGN INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED, 3 Lloyds Avenue, London, EC3N 3DS, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When sovereign-international.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3817 3700 is
- Whether EC3N 3DS is a shared office: 21 other firms give it
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sovereign Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Sovereign International 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.
Show FCA detail (5 permissions)
- 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 2. Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
- 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
- 6. Money remittance.
Limits on what they may do
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Will not onboard any customers that meet the prohibited category under the Firm’s onboarding policy.
The Firm will not onboard any customers that meet the prohibited category under the Firm’s onboarding policy.
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Agents
The firm will not onboard any agents.
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
- 09357987 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 17 December 2014 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 3 Lloyd's Avenue, London, EC3N 3DS, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Sean Robert Galvin | Director | Jan 1996 | 17 Dec 2014 | 1 other company |
| Harry Philip Scarlett | Director | Mar 1999 | 16 May 2019 | 3 other companies |
| Liam Robert Galvin | Director | Feb 1998 | 2 Jan 2020 | 1 other company |
| George James Jackson | Director | Jun 1997 | 7 Mar 2022 | 1 other company |
| David George Mason | Director | Aug 1957 | 16 Jun 2023 | 27 other companies |
| Paul Hayward | Director | Apr 1964 | 16 Jun 2023 | None |
| Elliott James Smith | Director | Sep 1990 | 3 Aug 2026 | None |
Other companies run by these 7 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
- 33
- closed down
- 13
- went insolvent
- 3
In the full report: all 33 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 7 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The 3 that went into liquidation or administration
- The 8 on the FCA register
- All 8 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1.73m
+2.9% from £1.69m
Cash at bank
£603k
+45% from £417k
Owed within a year
£325k
+11% from £293k
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 09357987. 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
Sovereign International (UK)’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
30 April 2025
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Agents)
- FCA imposed a requirement (Will not onboard any customers that meet the prohibited category under the Firm’s onboarding policy.)
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
17 December 2016
- Sean Robert Galvin took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
17 December 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms connected to Sovereign International (UK)
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Sovereign International (UK). A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- past links
- 8
In the full report: all 0 connected firms, named
- 8 past links through former directors
Firms like Sovereign International (UK)
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 33 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 17 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