Vauban Technologies Limited
Reference number: 825317
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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 7 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2018
- Accounts filed up to 30 June 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £21.2m more than it owned
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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Phone number
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Address
186 Shoreditch High Street, LONDON, E1 6HU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When carta.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3813 1114 is
- Who else gives the postcode E1 6HU
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Vauban Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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
- 11128704 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 January 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- Censeo House, 6 St. Peters Street, St. Albans, AL1 3LF, England
- Nature of business
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- Other software publishing (SIC 58290)
- Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 66190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Shozen Ward | Director | Jan 1976 | 30 Jun 2022 | None |
| Charly Christophe Jacques Kevers | Director | Sep 1975 | 30 Jun 2022 | 4 other companies |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 4
In the full report: all 4 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 9 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£21.2m
Down £5.51m from −£15.7m
Cash at bank
£2.03m
−8.5% from £2.21m
Employees (average)
94
−6% from 100
Owed within a year
£25.0m
+35% from £18.6m
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £21.2m more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 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 11128704. 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
Vauban Technologies’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
30 June 2022
- Board replaced: all 3 directors left and 3 new directors took over
Companies House
2021
1 April 2021
- Remy Denis Pedro Astie stopped being a part-owner
- Ulric Nils Ronan Vizcay Musset stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2018
19 December 2018
- Changed its registered name from "Vauban"
FCA register
5 December 2018
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2 January 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Remy Denis Pedro Astie became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Ulric Nils Ronan Vizcay Musset became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 26 events
- All 26 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 16
Firms connected to Vauban Technologies
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Vauban Technologies. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share its postcode
- 3
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
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- 4 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 26 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk