On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
- Registered for 7 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2009
- Accounts filed up to 31 January 2026
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
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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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Falcon Point, Park Plaza, Heath Hayes, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS12 2DE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode WS12 2DE
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
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
- 06812464 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 6 February 2009 (17 years old)
- Registered office
- 33 Wolverhampton Road, Cannock, Staffordshire, WS11 1AP
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin John Carter | Director | May 1962 | 6 Feb 2009 | 26 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 26
- closed down
- 13
- went insolvent
- 1
In the full report: all 26 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- The one that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£498k
+1.2% from £492k
Cash at bank
£24.3k
−84% from £156k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£873k
+7.8% from £810k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2026
- 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 06812464. 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
Arden Commercial Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
1 February 2025
- April Morris became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2019
24 June 2019
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Colin John Carter became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2009
6 February 2009
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Colin John Carter appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Arden Commercial Finance
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Arden Commercial Finance. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
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- 26 other companies its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 5 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk