FIRST MERCHANT FINANCE LIMITED
Reference number: 659558
Instant download
On the register, but not FCA authorised
This firm is registered with the FCA for anti-money-laundering checks only, which is why it appears on the register. That is not authorisation: the FCA does not oversee how it treats customers, and FSCS protection does not apply.
What does this mean?
- Some businesses are required by law to have an anti-money-laundering supervisor. For this kind of business that supervisor is the FCA, and the registration is the only reason the firm appears on the FCA register.
- What the FCA checks is narrow: that the firm identifies its customers, keeps records, and reports suspicious activity. It is the anti-crime paperwork behind a bank asking you for ID.
- It does not check anything about you as a customer. Not whether the firm treats you fairly, not whether it is financially sound, not whether what it sells is any good. The FCA describes firms registered this way as “not authorised or subject to wider FCA regulation”.
- So if the firm fails or treats you badly, there is no FSCS compensation, and the Financial Ombudsman Service usually cannot look at a complaint about unregulated business.
Identity
Check their details
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.
-
Verified website
-
Verified phone number
-
Verified address
36 Seymour Street, London, W1H 7JF, United Kingdom
- First Merchant Limited
Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- 03553430
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 27 April 1998 (28 years old)
- Registered office
- 36 Seymour Street, Marylebone, London, W1H 7JF
- Nature of business
-
- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Current directors and secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosaleen Mary Collyer-Hamlin | Director | Nov 1947 | 27 Apr 1998 |
| Anthony Richard George Collyer-Hamlin | Director | Oct 1946 | 27 Apr 1998 |
| Richard Anthony Collyer-Hamlin | Director | May 1974 | 31 Jan 2003 |
| Warren James Collyer-Hamlin | Director | Sep 1977 | 1 Jan 2006 |
| Rosaleen Mary Collyer-Hamlin | Secretary | Not published | 27 Apr 1998 |
Activities and protection
What the record covers, and how you are protected
- Money-laundering registration onlyThis firm is registered for anti-money-laundering supervision only. It is not FCA-authorised. Money you hand over is not protected by the FSCS, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may not be able to consider a complaint about unregulated business.
Track record
FCA actions and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action, and no complaints recorded with the Ombudsman.
Previously registered as
The FCA register holds one earlier registered name for this firm. A registered name changes when a firm rebrands, and a partnership's changes whenever its partners do.
- First Merchant Finance Plc
Download this page as a PDF report
£5 for a clean, timestamped copy you can keep, file or send on. It also helps keep the site free to use and free of ads.
Instant download
Common questions