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 16 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2010
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2024
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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Phone number
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Address
Innovation Centre, Highfield Drive, St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9UH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01424 858281 is
- Who else gives the postcode TN38 9UH
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
- 07172160 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 1 March 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- Innovation Centre, Highfield Drive, St. Leonards-On-Sea, TN38 9UH, England
- Nature of business
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- Factoring (SIC 64992)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Marie Juliano | Director | Nov 1977 | 14 Jun 2021 | None |
| Ann Marie Juliano | Secretary | Not published | 14 Jun 2021 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 6 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£950k
Up £1.14m from −£186k
Cash at bank
£69.9k
+1.4% from £68.9k
Owed within a year
£6.58m
+2.8% from £6.40m
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07172160. 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
Innovation Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
14 June 2021
- Board replaced: all 3 directors left and a new director took over
- Doonbeg Holdings Limited gave up control
- Prime 5 Finance Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Doonbeg Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2010
23 July 2010
- Registered with the FCA
FCA register
1 March 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 11
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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