DSL Business Finance Ltd
Reference number: 708646
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Identity
Check their details
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Verified address
5 Dava Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G2 2QZ, Scotland
- DSL
Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- SC145739
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private company limited by guarantee
- Incorporated
- 3 August 1993 (33 years old)
- Registered office
- 5 Dava Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA
- Nature of business
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- Other credit granting not elsewhere classified (SIC 64929)
Current directors and secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed |
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| Stuart Mitchell Yuill | Director | Jul 1958 | 6 May 2011 |
| Iain Alan Burnside | Director | Aug 1959 | 22 May 2024 |
| Jennifer Nicoll | Director | Mar 1964 | 22 May 2024 |
| Simon Smith | Director | Apr 1973 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| Joanne Elizabeth Seagrave | Secretary | Not published | 15 Nov 2023 |
Activities and protection
What they can do, and how you are protected
- Hold or safeguard your money · Run or oversee funds FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
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- Credit Broking
- Debt Administration
- Debt-collecting
- Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Managing an unauthorised AIF
Limits on what they may do
- This firm may handle your money in passing but must not hold it, so payments should go to the product provider, never to a personal account.
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Venture Capital Business Only
The firm must not conduct designated investment business other than Venture Capital business.
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Not permitted to canvass off trade premises
The firm is not permitted to canvass regulated borrower-lender-supplier agreements or regulated consumer hire agreements off trade premises
One supervisory condition set by the FCA
These are conditions the FCA places on the firm itself, covering things like capital it must hold and what it must report. They do not change what the firm may do for you.
- Small Authorised UK AIFM (Sub-Threshold)
The total value of assets under management by the firm must not exceed the relevant threshold as set out in Article 3(2) of AIFMD (as determined under Chapter II, section I of the AIFMD level 2 regulation). In the event that the relevant threshold is breached, the firm must submit an application for authorisation as a Full-scope UK AIFM to the FCA
Complaints: You can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Track record
FCA actions and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action, and no complaints recorded with the Ombudsman.
Names it no longer trades under
This firm has retired 4 trading names. If you were contacted under one of these, the name did belong to this firm, but check the current details above before going ahead.
Show the retired names
- Big Issue Invest Scotland
- New Start Up Scotland
- The Scottish Microfinance Fund
- The Start Up Loans Company
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