FDS Corporation Limited
Reference number: 1046847
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Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for under a year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2014
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
Affirm U.K. Limited Reference number: 756087 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- FDS Corporation Limited (FRN 1046847) introduces customers to Affirm U.K. Limited (FRN 756087). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not FDS Corporation.
- Example: if FDS Corporation refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from FDS Corporation itself.
- 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
Unit 4, Blackacre Road, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0FL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When costway.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01473 550500 is
- Who else gives the postcode IP6 0FL
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Affirm U.K. 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
- 08890000 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 February 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 4 Blackacre Road, Great Blakenham, Ipswich, IP6 0FL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets (SIC 47990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wei Wu | Director | Jun 1972 | 1 Dec 2014 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£92.8m
+12% from £82.6m
Profit before tax
£2.51m
−39% from £4.09m
Net assets
£3.81m
+96% from £1.95m
Cash at bank
£2.92m
+60% from £1.83m
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- Both charts, 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 08890000. 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
FDS Corporation’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
20 January 2026
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2025
1 December 2025
- Costway Corp. gave up control
Companies House
2024
16 December 2024
- Wei Wu took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2019
29 March 2019
- Sheng Li no longer has significant control
Companies House
2017
20 February 2017
- Sheng Li gained significant control
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Costway Corp. took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
12 February 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 14 events
- All 14 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
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- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 14 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