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 6 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- 151 Ombudsman complaints in January–June 2025
Responsible principal firm
Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) Limited Reference number: 722968 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.
- National Savings and Investments (FRN 926725) introduces customers to Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) Limited (FRN 722968). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not National Savings and Investments.
- Example: if National Savings and Investments refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from National Savings and Investments 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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Sanctuary Buildings – LG, 20 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, SW1P 3BT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01253 832007 is
- Who else gives the postcode SW1P 3BT
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Cycle Solutions (Cycle to Work) 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.
Financial Ombudsman complaints
Ombudsman complaints
- new complaints, January–June 2025
- 151
- upheld, against a 31% median
- 35%
- about banking and credit
- 150
A bigger firm gets more complaints simply because it has more customers.
Firms connected to National Savings and Investments
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with National Savings and Investments. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Ombudsman complaints data, January–June 2025 financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk