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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Phone number
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Address
Suite AM Balfour Business Centre, 390-392, High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1BF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When unitedremit.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07982 341449 is
- Who else gives the postcode IG1 1BF
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.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- 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
- 10348585 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 26 August 2016 (10 years old)
- Registered office
- Suite Am 257 Balfour Business Centre, 390-392 High Road, Ilford, IG1 1BF, England
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Rashid | Director | Apr 1996 | 15 Sep 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 5 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1
Same as £1
Cash at bank
£1
No earlier figure to compare
These accounts were filed as dormant: the company reported no significant trading in the period.
Net assets
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 10348585. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
United Remit’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
9 July 2026
- Ahmad Rashid became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2019
9 April 2019
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2018
9 August 2018
- Khandakar Uddin no longer has significant control
- Khandhkar Mohi Uddin became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2016
26 August 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Khandakar Uddin gained significant control
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms like United Remit
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In Ilford
In the Ilford (IG) postcode area
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 17 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