Worldline Merchant Services UK Limited
Reference number: 978429
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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
Summit House, 12 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4QH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When worldline.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3147 4966 is
- Who else gives the postcode WC1R 4QH
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Worldline 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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- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
- 4. Executing payment transactions (credit line)
- 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
Limits on what they may do
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Institution to refrain from AIS or PIS for an indefinite period
Must comply with the requirements in regulation 78A(2)(b)of the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 to refrain from providing account information services or payment initiation services for an indefinite period
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
- 14162517 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 June 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- Summit House, 12 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4QH, England
- Nature of business
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- Information technology consultancy activities (SIC 62020)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Lee Graham Jones | Director | Dec 1974 | 9 Jun 2022 | 1 other company |
| Sean Patrick Stone | Director | Feb 1957 | 25 Aug 2023 | 1 other company |
| James Simon Robins | Director | Sep 1989 | 20 Dec 2023 | 1 other company |
| David Emmanuel Gebhardt | Director | Jul 1974 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
| Srikanth Seshadri | Director | Nov 1975 | 9 Mar 2026 | None |
| David Mcguire | Secretary | Not published | 9 Jun 2022 | – |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- still active
- 2
- 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 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register
- The 1 company these 5 directors run together
- All 11 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£16.0m
Up £16.0m from £30.8k
Profit before tax
£1.89m
From a loss of £2.97m
Total equity
£5.27m
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£7.95m
+143% from £3.27m
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Turnover and profit
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 14162517. 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
Worldline Merchant Services UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
22 September 2023
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Institution to refrain from AIS or PIS for an indefinite period)
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2022
9 June 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Worldline SA took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 23 events
- All 23 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 17
Firms connected to Worldline Merchant Services UK
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Worldline Merchant Services UK. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Worldline Merchant Services UK
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In London
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 23 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