PDL Finance Limited
Reference number: 673310
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
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
Mr Lender, Freeman House, Langston Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 3TQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When mrlender.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 8532 5022 is
- Who else gives the postcode IG10 3TQ
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Compare.Loans Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Mr Lender Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Warning
Scammers have impersonated this firm
Fraudsters have used this firm's name or details with their own contact information to appear genuine. Check whatever you were given below, and against the firm's real details above.
Fake phone numbers (1)
- 1204 208 206
Fake email addresses (1)
- info@pdlfinancelimited.com
Fake websites (1)
- pdlfinancelimited.com
The FCA warning these came from
- PDL Finance Limited 18 May 2017
Scammers change these details often. Always check the live FCA warning.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Credit Broking
- Entering into high-cost short-term credit as lender
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties in relation to high-cost short-term credit
Limits on what they may do
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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.
The clone warnings above are scammers using this firm's name, not something the firm has done.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 06738633 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 31 October 2008 (17 years old)
- Registered office
- 2 Leman Street, London, E1W 9US, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors (SIC 64921)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Adam Robert Freeman | Director | Feb 1978 | 12 Jan 2010 | 11 other companies |
| Emily Louise Nisbet | Director | Sep 1990 | 5 Feb 2015 | 1 other company |
| Jennie Carol Grant | Director | Nov 1976 | 1 Aug 2015 | None |
| Daniel Marc Shrier | Director | Feb 1979 | 4 Jan 2017 | 3 other companies |
| Karen Anne Taylor | Director | Nov 1967 | 18 Jun 2026 | None |
| Gregory Peter Stevens | Director | Sep 1946 | 14 Jul 2026 | None |
Other companies run by these 6 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 15
- closed down
- 10
- still active
- 5
In the full report: all 15 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 6 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 12 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£12.9m
+34% from £9.61m
Net assets
£20.9m
+29% from £16.2m
Cash at bank
£4.56m
+42% from £3.22m
Owed within a year
£4.22m
+22% from £3.46m
The accounts for the year to 30 December 2024 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £12.8m, for the year to 31 December 2021.
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- Both charts, 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 06738633. 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
PDL Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2017
18 May 2017
- FCA warned the public about a scam impersonating this firm
FCA warning list
2016
6 April 2016
- Sdj Enterprises Limited became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
17 February 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Not permitted to canvass off trade premises)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2010
12 January 2010
- Board replaced: its only director left and 4 new directors took over
Companies House
2008
31 October 2008
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 29 events
- All 29 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 18
Firms like PDL Finance
Other firms of the same type (lender), nearest first.
In Loughton
In the Ilford (IG) postcode area
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- 15 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 29 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- FCA warning: PDL Finance Limited fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk