Aquila Business Solutions Limited
Reference number: 997617
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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 3 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2019
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
Empire Finance Limited Reference number: 734215 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.
- AQUILA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED (FRN 997617) is an AR of Empire Finance Limited (FRN 734215). When you use AQUILA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from AQUILA BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, 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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Phone number
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Address
Barnett Ravenscroft, 13 Portland Road, Birmingham, Birmingham, B16 9HN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When empirefinance.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07919 397605 is
- Who else gives the postcode B16 9HN
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Empire Finance 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
- 12371824 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 December 2019 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Barnett Ravenscroft, 13 Portland Road, Birmingham, B16 9HN, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Robert Goulden | Director | Oct 1968 | 19 Dec 2019 | None |
| Tracey Dawn Goulden | Secretary | Not published | 19 Dec 2019 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£668
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£6,710
+178% from £2,413
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£7,554
+13% from £6,690
Net assets
In the full report: all 5 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12371824. 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
Aquila Business Solutions’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
8 June 2023
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2019
19 December 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Stephen Robert Goulden took control (75–100% of shares)
- Stephen Robert Goulden appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 4 events in its history
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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