Lantern Debt Recovery Services Limited
Reference number: 718024
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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
83 Bradford Road, Stanningley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AT, United Kingdom
- Lantern
Company details
From the company's Companies House record.
- Company number
- 06637307
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 3 July 2008 (18 years old)
- Registered office
- Protection House 83 Bradford Road, Stanningley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AT
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Current directors and secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew John Kirk | Director | Mar 1981 | 1 Aug 2019 |
| Andrew Mark Jones | Director | Dec 1968 | 1 Aug 2019 |
| Paul Anthony Mason | Director | May 1970 | 1 Nov 2023 |
Activities and protection
What they can do, and how you are protected
- 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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- Debt Administration
- Debt-collecting
- 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)
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties in relation to high-cost short-term credit
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties under a bill of sale loan agreement
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties under a regulated home credit loan agreement
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the owner's rights and duties under a regulated consumer hire agreement
Complaints: You can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Track record
What customers have complained about
Previously registered as
The FCA register holds 2 earlier registered names for this firm. A registered name changes when a firm rebrands, and a partnership's changes whenever its partners do.
- Lantern Debt Recovery Services Ltd
- Motormile Finance UK Limited
Names it no longer trades under
This firm has retired 3 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.
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- MMF
- MMF Debt Purchase
- MMF UK
Complaints record
In January–June 2025, the Financial Ombudsman Service received 51 new complaints about this firm, and upheld 68% of the ones it decided.
That is above the 31% median for the firms the Ombudsman reports on.
- Banking and credit 51
A bigger firm receives more complaints simply because it has more customers. FOS complaints data →
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