Penzance-based TorFX offers foreign currency transactions on sums from £5,000 to more than £5m. Its clients, operating mainly in Spain, France, America and Australia, include businesses and high-net-worth individuals, many of whom are referred by the removal company Allied Pickfords. Chief executive Jon Bedell claims the business has lower overheads than its London competitors. Sales at the Cornwall company, representing total transaction value, have grown 103% a year, from an annualised £43.2m in 2006 to £361.8m in 2009. Its commission on the trades amounts to £2.5m.