On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
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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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
8 BLOOMSBURY ST, London, WC1B 3SR, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode WC1B 3SR
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Woodsford Tradebridge Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
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
- 08397697 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 11 February 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- 8 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3SR, England
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
- Other credit granting not elsewhere classified (SIC 64929)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Leonard Coxhead | Director | Apr 1968 | 11 Feb 2013 | 10 other companies |
| Olivier Maurice Henri Bonavero | Director | Mar 1978 | 15 Apr 2013 | 32 other companies |
| Mark Richard Anthony Spiteri | Director | Mar 1975 | 15 Apr 2013 | 16 other companies |
| Robert James Eddowes | Director | Jun 1955 | 1 May 2013 | 19 other companies |
| Sebastian William Louis Miles | Director | Jun 1983 | 3 May 2023 | 5 other companies |
| Jonathan Dickie | Director | Oct 1985 | 1 Feb 2024 | 4 other companies |
Other companies run by these 6 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
- 52
- closed down
- 17
- are FCA-registered
- 5
In the full report: all 52 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 6 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 5 on the FCA register
- The 15 companies these 6 directors run together
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£22.3m
−2.3% from £22.8m
Profit before tax
−£513k
−168% from £756k
Net assets
£519k
−53% from £1.09m
Cash at bank
£5.37m
+167% from £2.01m
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2022 to 2026
- Both charts, 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.
The figures for the year to 31 March 2026 were read from the printed accounts, because the filing does not tag them in a form that can be read automatically. They were checked against the accounts’ own totals.
These are group figures: the firm and the companies it owns, combined.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 08397697. 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
Tradebridge Financial Technologies’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
24 October 2025
- Changed its registered name from "Woodsford Tradebridge Ltd"
FCA register
2 May 2025
- Olivier Maurice Henri Bonavero became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2022
4 August 2022
- Lars Alexander Haussmann stopped being the majority owner
- Mark Leonard Coxhead gained significant control
- Mark Leonard Coxhead no longer has significant control
- Mark Richard Anthony Spiteri gained significant control
- Mark Richard Anthony Spiteri no longer has significant control
- Markus Stutz stopped being the majority owner
- Olivier Maurice Henri Bonavero no longer has significant control
- Robert James Eddowes gained significant control
- Robert James Eddowes no longer has significant control
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Lars Alexander Haussmann became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Markus Stutz became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Olivier Maurice Henri Bonavero gained significant control
Companies House
2014
13 February 2014
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2013
11 February 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 25 events
- All 25 events in its history (16 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
Firms connected to Tradebridge Financial Technologies
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Tradebridge Financial Technologies. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- share a director
- 4
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (4), the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
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- 52 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 25 events in its history
- 4 connected firms, 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk