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 2025
- Accounts filed up to 31 May 2026
Responsible principal firm
Automotive Compliance Limited Reference number: 497010 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.
- Obsidian Motor Company Ltd (FRN 1060363) introduces customers to Automotive Compliance Limited (FRN 497010). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Obsidian Motor Company.
- Example: if Obsidian Motor Company refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Obsidian Motor Company 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
9 Commercial Yard, Barnard Castle, County Durham, DL12 8FE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When omc-cars.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07955 995999 is
- Who else gives the postcode DL12 8FE
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Automotive Compliance 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
- 16433446 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 7 May 2025 (1 year old)
- Registered office
- 9 Commercial Yard, Barnard Castle, DL12 8FE, England
- Nature of business
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- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Matthew Langridge | Director | Sep 1986 | 7 May 2025 | None |
| Bradley Alan Payne | Director | Mar 1997 | 7 May 2025 | None |
| Ryan James Payne | Director | Feb 1995 | 7 May 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£131k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£63.8k
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Employees (average)
5
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Owed within a year
£228k
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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 16433446. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Obsidian Motor Company’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
18 August 2026
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2025
7 May 2025
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Ryan James Payne took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 7 events
- All 7 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms like Obsidian Motor Company
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In the Darlington (DL) postcode area
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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