United Kingdom · Money service business
Travelex Currency Services Limited
Trading asTravelex Currency Services · Travelex Currency Services Ltd
Legal name in the LEI recordTravelex Currency Services Ltd
Travelex Currency Services Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, with its head office in Peterborough. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) registers it as a money service business for currency exchange under the Money Laundering Regulations. It is wholly owned by Travelex AcquisitionCo Limited, within the Travelex group headed by Travelex International Limited of Jersey. According to its 2025 accounts, it supplies foreign banknotes to wholesale customers, including central banks, and provides foreign currency services to financial institutions and others in the UK, including Tesco Travel Money orders placed online or by telephone.
Licences and registrations
Held by Travelex Currency Services Limited (LEI 894500JXCVM37JWOZB06). 1 entry on 1 of the 22 tracked registers, retrieved 24 September 2026.
| Register | Licence | Number | Jurisdiction | Status | Registered | Ends | Activities | Register entry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMRC MLR Supervised Business RegisterHMRC | Money Service BusinessCurrency Exchange | XFML00000105750 | United Kingdom | Active | 2017-06-01 | — |
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Trading names on the register: Travelex Currency Services (HMRC-MLR), Travelex Currency Services Ltd (HMRC-MLR)
- 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.
Swift network
Swift’s ISO 9362 BIC directory
Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory.
Its LEI is not mapped to a BIC in the Swift and GLEIF BIC-to-LEI relationship file.
Overview
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
Customers
Not published
Ownership
Group subsidiary
100% Travelex AcquisitionCo Limited
Firm type
Bureau de change
Trades as Travelex
- Ownership
- Travelex International Limited of Jersey owns the firm through Travelex AcquisitionCo Limited, and funds managed by Barings LLC hold 51.49% of Travelex International Limited, according to the firm's 2025 accounts.
- Direct parent
- Travelex AcquisitionCo Limited ↗, United Kingdom 100%
- Ultimate owner
- Travelex International Limited, Jersey
- Head office
- Worldwide House, Thorpe Wood, PE3 6SB Peterborough, United Kingdom
- Company register
- Companies House 03797356
- Incorporated
- 28 Jun 1999
Sources · 9 pages consulted
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03797356
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03797356/officers
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03797356/persons-with-significant-control
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03797356/filing-history
- find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03797356/filing-history/MzUzODUwNDE4MGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
- tescotravelmoney.com/
- tescotravelmoney.com/travel-money-card/
- travelex.co.uk/
- travelex.co.uk/legal/terms-and-conditions
Authorisation
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Operates under
- Its own licences
HMRC registers the firm as a money service business (currency exchange) under the Money Laundering Regulations. The Tesco Travel Money Card that it sells is issued by PrePay Technologies Limited, which the FCA authorises as an electronic money institution.
| Authority | Licence or registration | Number | Held | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) United Kingdom | Money Service Business (Currency Exchange), Money Laundering Regulations Supervised Business Register | XFML00000105750 | In its own name | Active | — |
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
- Card issuer
- PrePay Technologies Limited United Kingdom
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
According to its 2025 accounts, the firm sources and distributes foreign banknotes to wholesale customers and provides outsourced foreign currency services to financial institutions and retailers. Tesco's travel money pages state that it provides Tesco Travel Money orders placed online or by telephone. The accounts also state that its outsourcing contract with Barclays expired after 31 December 2025.
It provides foreign currency services in the UK, and its 2025 accounts state that it also supplies banknotes to a global customer network.
- Revenue
- GBP 42.3m
- Sells to
- Financial institutions · Enterprises · Consumers
- Serves customers in
- United Kingdom
Leadership
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
- Executive
- Adam Kettle Director
- Executive
- Daryl Peter Thomas Norman Director
- Executive
- Matthew Daniel Lewis Director
- Executive
- Victoria Benis-Lonsdale Company Secretary
Recent events
Researched 29 Sep 2026 · Sources
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Leadership
The firm appointed Matthew Daniel Lewis as a director on 7 September 2026.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The Travelex group cancelled 70% of its New Money Notes on 3 June 2026, reducing the principal outstanding to GBP 124.5 million.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Gary Shoemake stepped down as a director of the firm on 16 June 2026.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
Directors Cameron Hume, Lisa Chitty and Suzanne Sennett left the board in December 2025.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The Travelex group issued GBP 12 million of Senior Guaranteed Notes to its shareholders on 30 September 2025.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Other
The Travelex group agreed with shareholders and noteholders on 15 April 2025 to extend its New Money Notes to March 2029.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk ↗ -
Leadership
The firm appointed Adam Kettle and Cameron Hume as directors on 9 May 2024.
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.
Identifiers
- Licence no. · HMRC-MLR
- XFML00000105750
- BIC
- Holds no BIC in Swift’s directory
- How the LEI was matched
- Matched by Elucidate to GLEIF on name and country only
- Elucidate firm ID
- f558ed4bdba1
Profile
- Type
- Money service businessRemittance, currency exchange, cheque cashing and money orders. Usually registered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor rather than licensed prudentially. Taken from the licences on the tracked registers.
- Regulation
- AML registration onlyRegistered with an anti-money-laundering supervisor (FinCEN, FINTRAC, HMRC, AUSTRAC, Hong Kong Customs…) without a prudential licence.
- Main licence class
- Currency Exchange
- Activities
- Currency exchange
- Licensed in
- United Kingdom · Europe & Central Asia
- First registered
- 2017-06-01
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
- Travelex Acquisitionco Limited · United Kingdom2138006DARWS1JCNRC50 ↗
The Travelex Acquisitionco Limited group has 2 institutions in the directory, in 1 country: 1 holds a BIC and 1 does not.
Including Travelex Europe Limited.
See the Travelex Acquisitionco Limited group →Group membership follows the accounting-consolidation relationships reported to GLEIF. It does not show ownership shares or control.
Addresses
- Address on the register
- Not published
- Country
- United Kingdom
ISO 20022 identification
As an agent in a Swift cross-border payment message (CBPR+)
This institution holds no BIC. A CBPR+ message identifies it by name and postal address, and may add its LEI or a clearing code.
- Identified by
- Name and postal address, with its LEI
- Postal address
- Incomplete: no town published
- The register publishes no town as a separate field. A CBPR+ postal address needs at least a town name (TwnNm) and a country (Ctry).
The LEI record in GLEIF holds a structured legal address.
CBPR+ identifies the instructing and instructed agents by BIC only. An institution without a BIC can be the debtor, creditor or an intermediary agent.
The values are as published by the register. Check them against your own records before use.
Sources & method
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Read the methodology →Register for this page
- HMRC MLR Supervised Business Register—HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) · source ↗ as at 24 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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