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 2022
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
Noble Insurance Services Ltd Reference number: 305884 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.
- Universal Securities NW Ltd (FRN 1008113) introduces customers to Noble Insurance Services Ltd (FRN 305884). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Universal Securities NW.
- Example: if Universal Securities NW refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Universal Securities NW 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.
This company holds another FCA record
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Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
167-169 Great Portland Street, London, Westminster, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- What kind of line 01282 690929 is
- Whether W1W 5PF is a shared office: 131 other firms give it
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Victoria Vaults Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Noble Insurance Services 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.
Concerns on the company record
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- Company number
- 14355672 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 14 September 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- Piccadilly Business Centre Unit C Aldow Enterprise Park, Blackett Street, Manchester, M12 6AE, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Altaf | Director | May 1978 | 14 Sep 2022 | 7 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
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
- 7
- closed down
- 3
- still active
- 4
In the full report: all 7 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£108k
+4.5% from £103k
Cash at bank
£51
−99% from £4,311
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£458k
<1% from £457k
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 14355672. 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
Universal Securities NW’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
28 November 2024
- Began trading as "Victoria Vaults"
FCA register
25 January 2024
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2022
14 September 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Mohammad Altaf took control (75–100% of shares)
- Mohammad Altaf 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