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 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2022
- Accounts filed up to 30 June 2025
Responsible principal firm
Business Line Insurance Services Limited Reference number: 309279 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.
- SME Risk Solutions Limited (FRN 984494) is an AR of Business Line Insurance Services Limited (FRN 309279). When you use SME Risk Solutions's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from SME Risk Solutions, 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
18 Barnack Grove, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5HQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07970 828147 is
- Who else gives the postcode SG8 5HQ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Business Line Insurance Services 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 name
- SME RISK SOLUTIONS LTD
- Company number
- 14205794 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 30 June 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- 18 Barnack Grove, Royston, SG8 5HQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
- Non-life insurance (SIC 65120)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn Fredrick Bowles | Director | Nov 1966 | 30 Jun 2022 | 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
£60.5k
+102% from £29.9k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£26.0k
+66% from £15.7k
The accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £60.8k, for the year to 30 June 2024.
Turnover
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 14205794. 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
SME Risk Solutions’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
1 October 2022
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
30 June 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Glenn Fredrick Bowles took control (75–100% of shares)
- Glenn Fredrick Bowles appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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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