Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 9 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2020
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2025
Responsible principal firm
The Right Mortgage Limited Reference number: 649443 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- A2B Financial Services Ltd (FRN 779733) is an AR of The Right Mortgage Limited (FRN 649443). When you use A2B Financial Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from A2B Financial Services, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
7-8 Stokesway, Stoke Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 1PE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07976 053710 is
- Who else gives the postcode PO12 1PE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Lana Ann Bates Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through The Right Mortgage Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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
- 12457269 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 February 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Tml House, 1a The Anchorage, Gosport, PO12 1LY, England
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lana Ann Bates | Director | Apr 1983 | 12 Feb 2020 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£71.5k
+53% from £46.6k
Cash at bank
£62.4k
+135% from £26.6k
Employees (average)
6
Same as 6
Owed within a year
£23.2k
+12% from £20.7k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12457269. 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
A2B Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
13 January 2022
- Martyn Bates gained significant control
Companies House
2020
20 April 2020
- Changed its registered name from "Lana Ann Bates"
FCA register
12 February 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Lana Ann Bates took control (75–100% of shares)
- Lana Ann Bates appointed as a director
Companies House
2017
24 May 2017
- Became an appointed representative
- Began trading as "A2B Financial Services"
FCA register
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms like A2B Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (mortgage adviser or broker), nearest first.
In Gosport
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk