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 31 March 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £197k more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
MOMENTUM BROKER SOLUTIONS LTD Reference number: 526435 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.
- Vanderbilt Insurance Services Ltd (FRN 978820) is an AR of MOMENTUM BROKER SOLUTIONS LTD (FRN 526435). When you use Vanderbilt Insurance Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Vanderbilt Insurance 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
Also given by 3 firms that are no longer authorised. Check you are dealing with the firm on this page.
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Address
29 Farm Street, London, W1J 5RL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0116 238 8880 is, and the 100 other firms that give it
- Who else gives the postcode W1J 5RL
Other names (4)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Vanderbilt Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Vanderbilt Private Clients Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Vanderbilt Firm Limited Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- Vanderbilt Firm Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Momentum Broker Solutions 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
- 14119304 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 May 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- 29 Farm Street, London, W1J 5RL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Activities of insurance agents and brokers (SIC 66220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominic Spencer-Churchill | Director | Dec 1979 | 19 May 2022 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- Both people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£197k
−254% from £128k
Cash at bank
£8,269
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
3
+200% from 1
Owed within a year
£31.8k
+37% from £23.2k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £197k more than it owned.
Net assets
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 14119304. 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
Vanderbilt Insurance Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
5 October 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Vanderbilt Firm Ltd"
FCA register
24 August 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Vanderbilt Insurance Services Ltd"
FCA register
3 August 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Vanderbilt Firm Limited"
FCA register
11 July 2022
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
19 May 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 10 events
- All 10 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms connected to Vanderbilt Insurance Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Vanderbilt Insurance Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 12
- share its phone number
- 12
In the full report: all 12 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same phone number (12)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Vanderbilt Insurance Services
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In London
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- 12 connected firms, 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