Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
Responsible principal firm
Tesco Personal Finance Limited Reference number: 186022 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Travelex Currency Services Ltd (FRN 977820) introduces customers to Tesco Personal Finance Limited (FRN 186022). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Travelex Currency Services.
- Example: if Travelex Currency Services refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Travelex Currency Services itself.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
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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Phone number
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Address
Worldwide House, Thorpe Wood, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE3 6SB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0345 300 5833 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode PE3 6SB
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Tesco Personal Finance Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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 name
- TRAVELEX CURRENCY SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 03797356 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 June 1999 (27 years old)
- Registered office
- Worldwide House, Thorpe Wood, Peterborough, PE3 6SB, England
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daryl Peter Thomas Norman | Director | Aug 1972 | 25 Oct 2021 | 4 other companies |
| Adam Kettle | Director | Aug 1980 | 9 May 2024 | None |
| Matthew Daniel Lewis | Director | Feb 1979 | 7 Sep 2026 | None |
| Victoria Benis-Lonsdale | Secretary | Not published | 17 Aug 2018 | – |
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
- 4
- still active
- 3
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 4 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- All 40 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Travelex Currency Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
22 June 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2020
6 August 2020
- Travelex Acquisitionco Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Travelex Limited gave up control
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty gave up control
- Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty took control (75–100% of shares)
- Travelex Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
1999
28 June 1999
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 86 events
- All 86 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 79
Firms connected to Travelex Currency Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Travelex Currency Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share a director
- 3
- share its phone number
- 1
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (3), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Travelex Currency Services
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In Peterborough
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- 4 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 86 events in its history
- 3 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk