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 2 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2024
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
Sturgeon Ventures LLP Reference number: 452811 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.
- Quark Financial Ltd (FRN 1016851) is an AR of Sturgeon Ventures LLP (FRN 452811). When you use Quark Financial's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Quark Financial, 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
1386 London Road, Leigh-On-Sea, Southend-On-Sea, SS9 2UJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07951 920318 is
- Who else gives the postcode SS9 2UJ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Sturgeon Ventures LLP, 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
- 15678803 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 April 2024 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- 1386 London Road, Leigh On Sea, Essex, SS9 2UJ, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Activities of financial services holding companies (SIC 64205)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gregory William Mahoney | Director | Mar 1975 | 25 Apr 2024 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£8,049
No earlier figure to compare
Owed within a year
£33.3k
No earlier figure to compare
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 15678803. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Quark Financial’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
27 August 2024
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
25 April 2024
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Gregory William Mahoney took control (75–100% of shares)
- Gregory William Mahoney appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Quark Financial
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Quark Financial. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Quark Financial
Other firms of the same type (investment or fund manager), nearest first.
In Leigh-On-Sea
In the Southend-on-Sea (SS) postcode area
Firms are listed by type and location, best known first. Being listed is not a recommendation: check any firm before you deal with it.
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 4 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