Sycous Limited
Reference number: 976899
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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
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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Website
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Phone number
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Address
New York House, 1 Harper Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 7EA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When sycous.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0333 880 3115 is
- Who else gives the postcode LS2 7EA
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- mySycous 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.
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- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
- 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
- 08836039 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 8 January 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- New York House, 1 Harper Street, Leeds, LS2 7EA, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Matthew Thomas Hall | Director | Feb 1988 | 8 Jan 2014 | 2 other companies |
| Luke Hadleigh Chambers | Director | Apr 1987 | 8 Jan 2014 | 2 other companies |
| Joseph Collier | Director | Aug 1987 | 1 Jan 2016 | 1 other company |
| Axel Benjamin Goritz | Director | Apr 1969 | 1 Oct 2019 | None |
| Frederic Reiser | Director | Jun 1967 | 1 Jan 2025 | None |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- 3
- closed down
- 2
- run together
- 2
In the full report: all 3 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 companies these 5 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£3.15m
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£350k
−18% from £425k
Owed within a year
£947k
−39% from £1.56m
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 08836039. 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
Sycous’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
20 December 2022
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2019
31 March 2019
- Alexander Michael Lehmann became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Luke Hadleigh Chambers gained significant control
- Luke Hadleigh Chambers stopped being a part-owner
- Marcus Werner Lehmann became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Matthew Thomas Hall gained significant control
- Matthew Thomas Hall stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Joseph Collier gained significant control
- Joseph Collier no longer has significant control
- Luke Hadleigh Chambers became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Matthew Thomas Hall became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2014
8 January 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 21 events
- All 21 events in its history (13 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
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- 3 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 21 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