Xchange Finance Limited
Reference number: 927212
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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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Website
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Phone number
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Address
4th Floor, 1 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6DR, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When strondy.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 4577 3256 is
- Who else gives the postcode EC1M 6DR
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Strondy 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
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
- 11454223 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 July 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- 4th Floor 1 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6DR, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Evija Meimane | Director | Nov 1980 | 19 Jul 2019 | None |
| Paul Michael Whelan | Director | Jan 1974 | 11 Dec 2025 | 2 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
- 2
- still active
- 2
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
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£1,200
Not compared: the previous accounts cover a different length of time
Profit before tax
−£118k
Not compared: the previous accounts cover a different length of time
Net assets
£338k
+152% from £134k
Cash at bank
£368k
−9.4% from £406k
The previous accounts cover 17 months, so turnover and profit are not compared with them.
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2024
- 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 11454223. 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
Xchange Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
1 October 2025
- Kirils Cehovals stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2024
6 February 2024
- Andrey Myslivtsev gave up control
- Kirils Cehovals became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Matthias Gerard Boulliung took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2021
19 April 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became an authorised e-money institution
FCA register
2019
29 November 2019
- Andrey Myslivtsev took control (75–100% of shares)
- Hanna Minhazava no longer has significant control
Companies House
28 January 2019
- Andrei Sazonov no longer has significant control
- Hanna Minhazava gained significant control
Companies House
2018
9 July 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Andrei Sazonov gained significant control
Companies House
In the full report: all 19 events
- All 19 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 19 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