City Quarter Brokers Limited
Reference number: 825522
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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 7 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2018
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2024
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
The Underwriting Exchange Limited Reference number: 537650 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.
- City Quarter Brokers Limited (FRN 825522) is an AR of The Underwriting Exchange Limited (FRN 537650). When you use City Quarter Brokers's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from City Quarter Brokers, 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
7th Floor,The St. Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, SRG GROUP, London, City Of London, EC3A 7AW, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When cityquarterbrokers.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07832 300456 is
- Whether EC3A 7AW is a shared office: 35 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- CQB Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through The Underwriting Exchange 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
- 11624675 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 October 2018 (8 years old)
- Registered office
- 7th Floor, The St Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AW, England
- Nature of business
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- Activities of insurance agents and brokers (SIC 66220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Walton | Director | Feb 1975 | 20 Nov 2019 | 1 other company |
| Lee David Anderson | Director | Jan 1972 | 26 Aug 2025 | 66 other companies |
| Warren Downey | Director | Sep 1971 | 26 Aug 2025 | 70 other companies |
| Joseph James Hanly | Director | Jul 1971 | 26 Aug 2025 | 86 other companies |
Other companies run by these 4 directors
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
- 100
- closed down
- 20
- are FCA-registered
- 31
In the full report: all 100 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 4 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 31 on the FCA register, including 5 no longer authorised
- The 69 companies these 4 directors run together
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£3.40m
+61% from £2.11m
Cash at bank
£2.34m
+39% from £1.69m
Employees (average)
7
Same as 7
Owed within a year
£823k
+3.9% from £792k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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 11624675. 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
City Quarter Brokers’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2020
17 December 2020
- Cqb Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Robert Walton stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2019
17 December 2019
- Nicholas Beresford Readings gave up control
Companies House
13 December 2019
- Robert Walton became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2018
8 November 2018
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
16 October 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Nicholas Beresford Readings took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 18 events
- All 18 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
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- 100 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 18 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