United Kingdom · Payments & e-money
Alpha Fx Limited
Alpha FX Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, with its head office in London. The FCA authorises it as an electronic money institution (FRN 900849) and for regulated investment services (FRN 770377). Corpay, Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has controlled the firm since it acquired the former parent, Alpha Group International plc, on 31 October 2025. The firm offers currency risk management, interest rate hedging, global accounts and payments to corporates and to private markets investment funds.
Licences and registrations
Held by Alpha Fx Limited (LEI 213800S766I9BW9T7Y55). 3 entries on 3 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 25 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
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| FCA Financial Services Register - E-Money InstitutionsFCALinked by LEI. Matched by Elucidate on the UK company number the register gives. | Authorised E-Money InstitutionE-Money / Stored Value Institution | 900849 | United Kingdom | Active | 2018-08-02 | — |
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| Money Services Business RegistryFINTRACLinked by LEI. Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address. | MSBMoney Transmitter / Remittance | M18265420 | Canada | Active | 2018-01-10 | Renews 2028-02-13 |
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| FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPsFCALinked by LEI. Matched by Elucidate on the UK company number the register gives. | Authorised Payment InstitutionPayment Institution | 752255 | United Kingdom | Cancelled - Authorised PI | — | Ended 2018-08-02 |
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Licences and registrations listed here were granted in Canada. This BIC is registered in the United Kingdom.
- Licences belong to the legal entity, not to a BIC.
- Each licence applies in the country of the regulator that granted it.
- Registers are tracked in 37 countries. Licences granted elsewhere are not recorded here.
- The register entries and their trading names were not matched against sanctions lists. The sanctions facts on this page cover the BIC and its LEI only.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
- BIC
- APAHGB2LXXX head office
- Connection to Swift
- Connected to SwiftThis BIC is registered as a live address on the Swift network. The institution sends and receives Swift messages under APAHGB2L directly.
- Swift GPI
- Not on the member list
- Payment schemes and systems
- No entry in the EPC registers, the ECB T2 and TIPS lists or the SIX Bank Master cites this BIC
- Branch codes
- None: head-office BIC only
- Other BIC with this LEI
- APAHGB3L
- BIC first registered
- 2019-02-23
- Last updated
- 2022-07-09
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Ownership
Group subsidiary
Corpay, Inc.
Firm type
FX and business payments
Trades as Alpha Group
- Standing
- Corpay, Inc. completed its acquisition of the firm's former parent, Alpha Group International plc, on 31 October 2025. On 25 September 2026 Corpay, Inc. replaced Alpha Group International Limited as the firm's registered person with significant control. According to its 2025 accounts, the firm plans to move its Corporate division clients to Corpay entities, and it transferred its Australian and Canadian businesses to other Corpay entities in April 2026.
- Ownership
- Corpay, Inc. holds 75% or more of the shares and voting rights directly, according to the Companies House register (notified 25 September 2026).
- Direct parent
- Corpay, Inc., United States
- Head office
- Brunel Building, 2 Canalside Walk, W2 1DG London, United Kingdom
- Company register
- Companies House 05108142
- Incorporated
- 21 Apr 2004
- Founder
- Morgan Tillbrook
- Former names
- ALPHA FOREX LIMITED · POUND LTD
Online
- Websites & references
- alphagroup.com ↗
docs.alphagroup.com ↗ developer docs
client.alpha.co.uk ↗ FX risk management client login
portal.alpha.co.uk ↗ alternative banking client portal
corpay.com ↗ Corpay Cross-Border site, linked as the brand's future home - Official social accounts
- LinkedIn ↗
Sources · 15 pages consulted
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05108142
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05108142/persons-with-significant-control
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05108142/officers
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05108142/filing-history
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05108142/filing-history/MzUyNjQ5NDA4OWFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
- alphagroup.com/regulatory-information/
- alphagroup.com/legal/
- alphagroup.com/
- alphagroup.com/corpay/
- register.fca.org.uk/s/firm?id=001b0000042fVDqAAM
- fca.org.uk/news/warnings/alpha-forex-pro-limited-alphaforexprolimited-clone-fca-authorised-firms
- investor.corpay.com/news-releases/news-release-details/corpay-completes-24-billion-cross-border-payments-acqu
- businesswire.com/news/home/20251105838574/en/Corpay-Completes-$2.4-Billion-Cross-Border-Payments-Acquisiti
- investor.corpay.com/news-releases/news-release-details/corpay-acquire-alpha-group-b2b-cross-border-fx-company
- alphagroup.com/person/sam-marsh/
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
The FCA authorises the firm as an electronic money institution under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FRN 900849). It also authorises the firm to provide regulated investment services (FRN 770377), and FINTRAC registers it in Canada as a money services business.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
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| Financial Conduct Authority United Kingdom | Authorised Electronic Money Institution | 900849 | In its own name | Active | register.fca.org.uk ↗ |
| Financial Conduct Authority United Kingdom | Authorised firm (regulated products and services) | 770377 | In its own name | Active | register.fca.org.uk ↗ |
| Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) Canada | Money Services Business registration | M18265420 | In its own name | Active | www10.fintrac-canafe.gc.ca ↗ |
| Revenu Québec Canada | Money services business licence | 12675 | In its own name | Status unconfirmed | revenuquebec.ca ↗ |
| Financial Conduct Authority United Kingdom | Authorised Payment Institution | 752255 | In its own name | Withdrawn or expired | — |
Licences and registrations the research found, at home and abroad, as the firm and its regulators publish them. The Licences and registrations card shows the entries on the registers the directory tracks.
Partners and safeguarding
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Safeguarding
- Segregated safeguarding accountsThe firm keeps client e-money in segregated accounts at a regulated credit institution. Since 1 November 2025, part of it has been covered by an insurance-backed guarantee bond instead, according to its 2025 accounts.
- Payment schemes and card networks
- Swift Direct alphagroup.com ↗
Banks and regulated firms the firm says hold its customers’ money, issue its cards, sponsor its accounts or settle its payments, as it discloses them in its terms and notices.
Products and markets
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
It offers FX spot, forwards and options, interest rate hedging, multi-currency accounts, payments and fund finance advisory to corporates and private markets investment funds.
The firm serves clients from London. Its Maltese sister company, Alpha FX Europe Limited, holds the group's EU licences.
- Revenue
- GBP 88.3m
- Sells to
- Enterprises · Financial institutions · Other
- Serves customers in
- United Kingdom
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Executive
- Samuel John Marsh Director
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Merger / acquisition
Corpay, Inc. became the firm's direct person with significant control, replacing Alpha Group International Limited, on 25 September 2026.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The firm transferred its Australian and Canadian businesses to other Corpay group entities, according to its 2025 accounts.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Directors Timothy Butters, Timothy Powell and Alex Howorth resigned in March 2026. Samuel Marsh was appointed a director on 10 March 2026.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The firm sent GBP 499 million of safeguarded client cash to a fellow Corpay subsidiary against a loan note backed by an insurers' guarantee bond.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The firm changed its safeguarding method from segregation alone to segregation combined with insurance, effective 1 November 2025.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Merger / acquisition
Corpay, Inc. completed its acquisition of parent Alpha Group International plc on 31 October 2025, after approval from the FCA.
businesswire.com ↗ -
Leadership
Founder Morgan Tillbrook resigned as a director of the firm on 2 January 2025.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗
Compliance-relevant events of the last three years, newest first: fines and enforcement, investigations, security incidents, licence changes, funding rounds, acquisitions and leadership changes. Each links to its source.
Regulator warnings
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Impersonation Financial Conduct Authority, United Kingdom
The FCA warned that Alpha Forex Pro Limited, an unauthorised firm, was using the details of Alpha FX Limited to pose as an authorised firm.
fca.org.uk ↗ -
Impersonation Financial Conduct Authority, United Kingdom
The FCA listed JTTRADER as a clone of the firm on its register entry.
register.fca.org.uk ↗
Entries on regulators’ consumer-warning lists that name the firm or its brand. An impersonation warning is about fraudsters posing as the firm, not about the firm itself.
Identifiers
Head-office record
- BIC
- APAHGB2LXXX
- How the BIC breaks down
- APAHBank
- GBCountry · United Kingdom
- 2LLocation
- XXXBranch · head office
- Branch description
- Not recorded in the directory
- LEI
- 213800S766I9BW9T7Y55
- LEI record
- View on GLEIF ↗
- Licence no. · FCA-EMI
- 900849
- Licence no. · FINTRAC-MSB
- M18265420
- Licence no. · FCA-PSD
- 752255
- How the LEI was matched
- BIC: Mapped to this BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.Register entries: Matched by Elucidate on the UK company number the register gives.Register entry: Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name, country and address.
- Register-entry IDs
- 228ecaf31219 · 8c41fb62282b
Profile
- Type
- Payments & e-money · Money service businessPayment institutions, e-money and stored-value issuers, and account-information providers. Licensed under payment-services law (e.g. PSD2 in the EU and UK, the Payment Services Act in Singapore). Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- Prudential licenceAuthorised with capital, safeguarding and conduct requirements, e.g. an authorised payment or e-money institution in the EU or UK, a major payment institution in Singapore, or a MiCA crypto-asset service provider.
- Register licences
- 3 entries on 3 registers
- Activities
- Payment services
- E-money / stored value
- Money remittance
- Currency exchange
- Licensed in
- United Kingdom · Canada
- Website (register)
- WWW.ALPHAFX.CO.UK ↗
- Country · region
- United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- Trading venues (MIC)
- No MIC registered under this LEI list of 2026-09-17
- OFAC sanctions
- No listing cites this BIC
- EU sanctions
- No listing matched this BIC or its LEI
- Country sanctions
- No country programme
Types come from Swift’s BIC classification, the licences on the 22 tracked registers, and the ECB and FSB bank lists. Most banks outside the euro area appear as financial institutions, because their supervisors’ registers are not tracked yet.
Ownership and group
GLEIF relationship records
- Direct parent
- Alpha Group International Limited · United Kingdom213800RESM1FPUXY6K31 ↗
Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Registered address
- BRUNDEL BUILDING FLOOR 6 2 CANALSIDE WALK,PADDINGTON LONDON W2 1DG UNITED KINGDOM
- Operational address
- BRUNEL BUILDING FLOOR 6 2 CANALSIDE WALK PADDINGTON LONDON LONDON W2 1DG UNITED KINGDOM
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
A CBPR+ message identifies this institution by its BIC, and may add its LEI or a clearing code. CBPR+ does not allow a name and postal address next to a BIC.
- Identified by
- BIC, with its LEI
- Roles in CBPR+
- Any agent, including the instructing and instructed agents
CBPR+
For cross-border payments on Swift: the BIC, with the LEI and clearing code where known
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>APAHGB2LXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>213800S766I9BW9T7Y55</LEI>
</FinInstnId>Full record
Every ISO 20022 element the directory holds. Base ISO 20022 allows them together. CBPR+ does not allow a name and address next to a BIC
<FinInstnId>
<BICFI>APAHGB2LXXX</BICFI>
<LEI>213800S766I9BW9T7Y55</LEI>
<Nm>ALPHA FX LIMITED</Nm>
<PstlAdr>
<TwnNm>LONDON</TwnNm>
<Ctry>GB</Ctry>
<AdrLine>BRUNDEL BUILDING FLOOR 6 2 CANALSIDE WALK, PADDINGTON LONDON W2 1DG</AdrLine>
</PstlAdr>
</FinInstnId>The BIC, name and address are as published in Swift’s BIC directory. The LEI comes from the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI file. Check them against your own records before use.
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Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Credits for this page
- FCA Financial Services Register - E-Money Institutions—Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) · register ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- Money Services Business Registry—Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) · register ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- FCA Financial Services Register - Payment Institutions & RAISPs—Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) · register ↗ as at 25 September 2026
- Ownership and group—GLEIF Level 2 relationship records (accounting consolidation), matched by LEI.
- Overview, authorisation, partners, products, leadership and events—researched per institution by an AI model with web search, from the firm's own website, terms and filings, regulators' registers and notices, company registers and news. Licences, partners, figures, people and events link to their source, and each card shows the research date. AI research can be wrong or out of date, so check key facts at the source.
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