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 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £625k more than it owned
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
DAVIES MGA SERVICES LIMITED Reference number: 597301 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.
- Helvetia Marine Services Limited (FRN 844494) is an AR of DAVIES MGA SERVICES LIMITED (FRN 597301). When you use Helvetia Marine Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Helvetia Marine 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
First Floor, 6 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7BA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- What kind of line +33 232 929 271 is
- Whether EC3A 7BA is a shared office: 23 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- HMS Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Davies Mga Services 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
- 11696133 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 26 November 2018 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- First Floor, 6 Bevis Marks, London, EC3A 7BA, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Non-life insurance (SIC 65120)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul-Andre Marie Jean Berger | Director | Nov 1970 | 26 Nov 2018 | None |
| Vincent Etienne Michel Letac | Director | Feb 1963 | 26 Nov 2018 | None |
| DAVIES MGA SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 26 Nov 2018 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 5 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
−£625k
Down £242k from −£383k
Cash at bank
£70.3k
+218% from £22.1k
Owed within a year
£3.11m
−25% from £4.13m
Total equity is negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £625k more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 11696133. 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
Helvetia Marine Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
20 June 2019
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2018
13 December 2018
- Helvetia Assurances SA gave up control
Companies House
26 November 2018
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Helvetia Assurances SA took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
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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