Visiting Gatehub's Office

[Lumpy]

Having no news from Gatehub regarding my corporate account verification, I decided to visit their London office yesterday. 

The 88-90 Hatton Garden is a building where you can find a collection of doors/ offices. There is a main entry door with a code. However, you can get in quite easily because there is a lot of activity, people coming in and out from the building.

The name Gatehub appears nowhere. The only name you will find at the suite 48 (4th floor) is Morwood Leyland. I knocked on the door many times. No answers. Then I decided to knock on the door in front of their office. A man opened the door. 

- Hi 

- Hello

- Sorry to bother you but do you know if the company Gatehub is in the suite 48?

- No idea, the only thing I know is that people coming to the suite 48 is quite rare, I would say once or twice a month.

End of the story

Wanted to share this with you guys.

Peace

[tulo]

Well, usually the legal address might be different from the work address. For their work they can probably work from thailand or hawai...they are making so much money that I'd do that.

[stuffie]

sigh

 

[Lumpy]

2 minutes ago, tulo said:

Well, usually the legal address might be different from the work address. For their work they can probably work from thailand or hawai...they are making so much money that I'd do that.

Well, the work address is probably in Lithuania. More complicated for me to get there

 

[stuffie]

I think it's Slovenie

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gatehub/current_employees/current_employees_image_list

But never mind, i don't think it is up to the customers to hunt down employees.

Edited January 10, 2018 by stuffie

[RDS]

10 minutes ago, tulo said:

Well, usually the legal address might be different from the work address. For their work they can probably work from thailand or hawai...they are making so much money that I'd do that.

As long as they dont run away to Thai or Hawai with our money, its fine. 

[stuffie]

BTW, their latest update: https://support.gatehub.net/hc/en-us/articles/115005032734-GateHub-service-status-update

 

[jennif]

47 minutes ago, Lumpy said:

Having no news from Gatehub regarding my corporate account verification, I decided to visit their London office yesterday. 

The 88-90 Hatton Garden is a building where you can find a collection of doors/ offices. There is a main entry door with a code. However, you can get in quite easily because there is a lot of activity, people coming in and out from the building.

The name Gatehub appears nowhere. The only name you will find at the suite 48 (4th floor) is Morwood Leyland. I knocked on the door many times. No answers. Then I decided to knock on the door in front of their office. A man opened the door. 

- Hi 

- Hello

- Sorry to bother you but do you know if the company Gatehub is in the suite 48?

- No idea, the only thing I know is that people coming to the suite 48 is quite rare, I would say once or twice a month.

End of the story

Wanted to share this with you guys.

Peace

LOL why are you even considering Gatehub for your corporate account? It's too risky dude. There are better exchanges for your needs.

[stuffie]

Because Ripple recommended to transfer Rippletrade wallets to Gatehub?

[Lumpy]

2 minutes ago, jennif said:

LOL why are you even considering Gatehub for your corporate account? It's too risky dude. There are better exchanges for your needs.

We are developing arbitrage solutions on top of the ripple protocol. We need to have our gateways on blockchain (Bitstamp, Gatehub, MrRipple). Other platforms are private/ off blockchain.

[xh3b4sd]

Gatehub is only registered in London because of some tax tricks. They are from some baltic countries AFAIK. I am not sure there is any office. Maybe they go with remote first. At this point you can only be patient and trust or stay away. 

[ThomasV]

1 hour ago, Lumpy said:

Having no news from Gatehub regarding my corporate account verification, I decided to visit their London office yesterday. 

The 88-90 Hatton Garden is a building where you can find a collection of doors/ offices. There is a main entry door with a code. However, you can get in quite easily because there is a lot of activity, people coming in and out from the building.

The name Gatehub appears nowhere. The only name you will find at the suite 48 (4th floor) is Morwood Leyland. I knocked on the door many times. No answers. Then I decided to knock on the door in front of their office. A man opened the door. 

- Hi 

- Hello

- Sorry to bother you but do you know if the company Gatehub is in the suite 48?

- No idea, the only thing I know is that people coming to the suite 48 is quite rare, I would say once or twice a month.

End of the story

Wanted to share this with you guys.

Peace

shell corporations exist for various tax and legal purposes. They are a UK company under UK law and that I really do like.  (Being in the USA I see this often as I live near the registration capital of the state of Delaware) That being said, I LIKE REAL companies.  I'm now MOST interested in their reply and where they actually do business and not in their parents basement.

Edited January 10, 2018 by tvm67

[MooseInTime]

The CEO and "manager" are Slovenian nationals, and attorney is in the USA according to companies house.

Not sure how often they are in the London HQ

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09311138/officers

Edited January 10, 2018 by MooseInTime

[Ally28]

Having a London office for HQ is clearly for tax purposes. 

When I transferred my GBPs to their EUR account I did look up to see where the bank was based and was in fact a Slovenian bank.

with regards to the admin folk who KYC users, the names do appear to be Eastern European names so their operations seem to be based there

[jn_r]

linkedin has some more info about their employees and where they are located: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gatehub-limited/

Edited January 10, 2018 by jn_r