Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for 2 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2021
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £15.9k more than it owned
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
NewDay Cards Ltd Reference number: 682417 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Sofa Empire Ltd (FRN 1013540) introduces customers to NewDay Cards Ltd (FRN 682417). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Sofa Empire.
- Example: if Sofa Empire refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Sofa Empire itself.
- 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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Phone number
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Address
Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, Camden, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When sofaempireuk.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0330 133 8290 is
- Whether WC1N 3AX is a shared office: 45 other firms give it
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through NewDay Cards Ltd, 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
- 13331624 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 13 April 2021 (5 years old)
- Registered office
- 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Wholesale of furniture, carpets and lighting equipment (SIC 46470)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Israr Khan | Director | Nov 1991 | 13 Apr 2021 | None |
| Israr Khan | Secretary | Not published | 13 Apr 2021 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£15.9k
Down £14.5k from −£1,363
Employees (average)
8
Up 8 from 0
Owed within a year
£19.7k
+279% from £5,202
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £15.9k more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
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 13331624. 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
Sofa Empire’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
10 April 2025
- Began trading as "Sofa Empire"
FCA register
2024
29 April 2024
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2021
13 April 2021
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Israr Khan took control (75–100% of shares)
- Israr Khan 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