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
Trust Payments, 15-17 London Road, Bromley, BR1 1DE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When trustpayments.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0333 240 6000 is
- Who else gives the postcode BR1 1DE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Trust Payments 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.
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- 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
- 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
- 12283499 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 October 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Activities of head offices (SIC 70100)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurence Booth | Director | Jun 1977 | 3 Oct 2024 | 6 other companies |
| Maria Olegovna Cilliers | Director | Oct 1971 | 18 Nov 2024 | 3 other companies |
| Benyam Hagos | Director | Jan 1986 | 3 Mar 2025 | 10 other companies |
| Richard Paul Brough | Director | Jul 1971 | 26 Jan 2026 | 6 other companies |
| ELEMENTAL COMPANY SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 28 Oct 2019 | – |
Other companies run by these 4 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
- 20
- closed down
- 6
- are FCA-registered
- 4
In the full report: all 20 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 4 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 4 on the FCA register, including 2 no longer authorised
- The 5 companies these 4 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£116.0m
+1.6% from £114.2m
Profit before tax
£3.93m
+396% from £794k
Net assets
£7.79m
+102% from £3.86m
Cash at bank
£4.24m
−60% from £10.7m
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12283499. 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
TrustUk Payments’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
15 March 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2019
28 October 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Trust Payments Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
Firms connected to TrustUk Payments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with TrustUk Payments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
- past links
- 4
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
- 4 past links through former directors
Firms like TrustUk Payments
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Bromley
In the Bromley (BR) postcode area
Elsewhere in the UK
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- 20 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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
- 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