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.
- Registered for under a year
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2016
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2024
- Its whole board of directors changed in May 2025
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
85 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7NQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode EC2V 7NQ
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
- 10234056 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 June 2016 (10 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Tc Citroen Wells Limited, 5th Floor, 3 Dorset Rise, London, EC4Y 8EN, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Business and domestic software development (SIC 62012)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Richard Goodridge | Director | Oct 1967 | 8 May 2025 | 26 other companies |
| Sean Denis Robson-Hanafin | Director | Jan 1972 | 8 May 2025 | 25 other companies |
| Timothy Lawrence Armstrong | Director | Sep 1968 | 8 May 2025 | 21 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 34
- closed down
- 6
- went insolvent
- 1
In the full report: all 34 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The one that went into liquidation or administration
- The 3 on the FCA register
- The 21 companies these 3 directors run together
- All 9 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£2.03m
−70% from £6.75m
Cash at bank
£863k
−46% from £1.59m
Employees (average)
48
+2.1% from 47
Owed within a year
£677k
Up £659k from £18.3k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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 10234056. 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
Tradeteq’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
15 January 2026
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2025
14 May 2025
- Silver Birch Technology Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
8 May 2025
- Board replaced: all 3 directors left and 3 new directors took over
Companies House
2019
30 November 2019
- Accelerated Digital Ventures Limited stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
23 September 2019
- Accelerated Digital Ventures Limited became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Adv Ecf 1 L.P stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2018
16 July 2018
- Adv Ecf 1 L.P became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Christoph Gugelmann stopped being a part-owner
- Nils Behling stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
15 June 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christoph Gugelmann became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Nils Behling became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 27 events
- All 27 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 15
Firms connected to Tradeteq
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Tradeteq. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share a director
- 2
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (2), the same postcode (1)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
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- 34 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 27 events in its history
- 2 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