Portman Financial Services Limited
Reference number: 976903
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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
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Phone number
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Address
Portman House, 300 Pavilion Drive, Northampton Business Park, Northamptonshire, NN4 7YE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When portmanfinancialservices.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01604 761276 is
- Who else gives the postcode NN4 7YE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Harrington Finance Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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.
Show FCA detail (3 permissions)
- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
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
- 14118062 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 May 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- Portman House 300 Pavilion Drive, Northampton Business Park, Northampton, NN4 7YE, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Stuart Graham Laidler | Director | Dec 1988 | 19 May 2022 | 7 other companies |
| Simon Daniel John Pratt | Director | Nov 1991 | 19 May 2022 | 7 other companies |
| Alexander Denis Winch Read | Director | Feb 1980 | 19 May 2022 | 10 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 12
- closed down
- 2
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 12 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 on the FCA register
- The 7 companies these 3 directors run together
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£10.4k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£8,266
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Employees (average)
3
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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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 14118062. 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
Portman Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
12 August 2026
- Portman Brokerage Limited gave up control
- Portman Holdco Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2022
1 November 2022
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
19 May 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Portman Brokerage Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms connected to Portman Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Portman Financial Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share a director
- 2
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (2), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Portman Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In Northamptonshire
In the Northampton (NN) postcode area
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- 12 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 12 events in its history
- 2 connected firms, named, and who links them
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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