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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Volt 2:17, The Bloomsbury Building, 10 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07464 794689 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode WC1A 2SL
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Volt 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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- a) Services enabling cash placement on a payment account
- b) Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account
- c) Execution of payment transactions (not covered by a credit line)
- d) Execution of payment transactions (covered by a credit line)
- e) Issuing payment instruments or acquiring payment transactions
- f) Money remittance
- h) Issuing Electronic Money
- i) Payment initiation services
- j) Account information services
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
- 14234292 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 14 July 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- The Bloomsbury Building, 10 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1 2SL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Data processing, hosting and related activities (SIC 63110)
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephanie Luisa Annabelle Lopes-Smith | Director | Apr 1989 | 14 Jul 2022 | 1 other company |
| Steffen Vollert | Director | Aug 1987 | 6 Aug 2024 | 1 other company |
| Stephanie Lopes-Smith | Secretary | Not published | 14 Jul 2022 | – |
| BIRD & BIRD COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 4 Oct 2023 | – |
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
- 2
- closed down
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 2 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
- The one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- All 5 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£270k
No earlier figure to compare
Profit before tax
−£224k
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Net assets
£2.27m
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Cash at bank
£2.52m
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* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
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 14234292. 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
Volt Technologies’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
18 August 2023
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2022
14 July 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Volt Technologies Holdings Limited 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 Volt Technologies
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Volt Technologies. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 6
- share a director
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
In the full report: all 6 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (1), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (5)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Volt Technologies
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 13 events in its history
- 6 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
- 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