Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 15 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2010
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
International Financial Security Limited Reference number: 969653 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- Psychologists' Protection Services Limited (FRN 543488) is an AR of International Financial Security Limited (FRN 969653). When you use Psychologists' Protection Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Psychologists' Protection Services, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- 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
Limetree House, North Castle Street, Alloa, FK10 1EX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0333 320 8074 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode FK10 1EX
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- PPS Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through International Financial Security 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
- SC379274 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 26 May 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- Pps Lime Tree House, North Castle Street, Alloa, FK10 1EX, Scotland
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ewan Magnus Murray | Director | Mar 1972 | 26 May 2010 | None |
| Ruth Anne Murray | Director | Apr 1976 | 26 May 2010 | None |
| Ewan Magnus Murray | Secretary | Not published | 20 May 2018 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£18.4k
+357% from £4,025
Cash at bank
£60.0k
−16% from £71.7k
Employees (average)
8
+14% from 7
Owed within a year
£46.4k
−36% from £72.0k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- The chart, 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company SC379274. 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
Psychologists' Protection Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2017
26 May 2017
- Ewan Magnus Murray became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Ruth Anne Murray became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2011
21 March 2011
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2010
26 May 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to Psychologists' Protection Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Psychologists' Protection Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Psychologists' Protection Services
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Alloa
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 9 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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