Authorised, but in an insolvency process
This firm is under the control of insolvency practitioners and may have stopped taking on new business. If you are or were a customer, deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm.
- No FCA actions
- Company: in liquidation
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
What the FCA says
ATTENTION - Firm in an insolvency process
This firm is in an insolvency process. It is under the control of the appointed insolvency office holder(s) and may have stopped taking on new business. It has to continue to meet our standards in line with its regulatory status, including when dealing with its customers. If you are/were a customer check how this affects you with the firm or the appointed insolvency office holder(s).
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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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
c/o Peter Dickens and Edward Macnamara, of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), 8th Floor Central Square, 289 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL, United Kingdom
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- Who else gives the postcode LS1 4DL
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Private and Commercial Finance Group Holdings Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- In an insolvency processMoney the firm held is returned through the appointed office holders, which takes time and can fall short. The FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Ombudsman can still look at a complaint.
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- Credit Broking
- Dealing in investments as principal
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt Administration
- Debt-collecting
- Debt-counselling
- Entering into Regulated Consumer Hire Agreements as owner
- Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the owner's rights and duties under a regulated consumer hire agreement
Limits on the record
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Not permitted to canvass off trade premises
The firm is not permitted to canvass regulated borrower-lender-supplier agreements or regulated consumer hire agreements off trade premises
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.
Concerns on the company record
- Companies House records this company in liquidation, but it is still authorised on the FCA register.
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- 02794633 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Liquidation
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 February 1993 (33 years old)
- Registered office
- 8th Floor Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds, LS1 4DL
- Nature of business
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- Banks (SIC 64191)
Key dates in its history
PCF Bank’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
4 September 2024
- No longer regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority
FCA register
2017
23 May 2017
- Changed its registered name from "Private and Commercial Finance Group Holdings Ltd"
FCA register
2016
6 December 2016
- Regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority from this date
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Regulated by the Prudential Regulation Authority from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Not permitted to canvass off trade premises)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
6 April 2016
- Pcf Group PLC gained significant control
Companies House
1993
23 February 1993
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 49 events
- All 49 events in its history (9 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 38
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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