White Arrow’s “FCA Licence” Is Another Firm’s Number

Verdict up front: White Arrow (white-arrow.org) claims to be “authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the license SC 533818”. That is not an FCA licence number. It is the Companies House number of an unrelated Glasgow debt-advice firm, whose current and former office addresses both appear on White Arrow’s site. Do not deposit.

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What is White Arrow?

White Arrow presents at white-arrow.org as a broker dealing in currency pairs, metals, shares and cryptocurrencies, with tiered accounts offering leverage up to 1:100 and orders it says are executed in milliseconds. Its claim to legitimacy rests on one sentence: that it is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under licence SC 533818.

That sentence does not survive a single lookup.

What SC 533818 actually is

“SC” is not an FCA prefix. It is the Companies House prefix for companies registered in Scotland, in the same family as “NI” for Northern Ireland and plain numerics for England and Wales. SC533818 is a live registration, and it belongs to AMI FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED, incorporated on 27 April 2016 and registered at 1 Ravenstone Drive, Giffnock, Glasgow.

AMI Financial Solutions is a genuine business and a genuinely FCA-authorised one — a Scottish debt-advice firm. Its actual FCA Firm Reference Number is 786883, a plain six-digit number bearing no resemblance to the string White Arrow displays. It does not offer forex or CFD trading, and we found nothing to suggest it has any connection to white-arrow.org beyond having its details copied.

The addresses give it away

The impersonation goes further than the number. White Arrow’s site lists two UK addresses. The first is 1 Ravenstone Drive, Giffnock — AMI’s current registered office. The second is Abbey Mill Business Centre, 12 Seedhill Road, Paisley — AMI’s former registered office, which the Companies House filing history records it leaving on 28 August 2024.

A site that has independently arrived at both the current and the historic registered addresses of the company whose registration number it displays has not made a coincidental error. It has copied a register entry, including a detail that was correct at some earlier point and was never updated.

How to check a licence claim in under a minute

Three checks settle almost every case of this kind.

Check the format. An FCA Firm Reference Number is six digits, or seven for newly registered firms, and contains no letters. Any “FCA licence” with a letter prefix is not an FCA number. Letters point to Companies House, which registers companies and authorises nobody.

Look the number up. Search the FCA’s Financial Services Register, or use the FCA Firm Checker. If the number returns nothing, or returns a different firm with a different name and business, the claim is false.

Compare the contact details. The register publishes each authorised firm’s own address, phone number and website. Where those differ from the site that approached you, you are dealing with a clone. Always contact a firm using the details on the register — never the details on the website under question.

The template underneath

The page’s HTML title — the text a browser shows in the tab, invisible in the page body itself — reads “CNNSLOT – Platform Resmi Rezeki Gampang Pecah”. That is Indonesian online-slot-gambling marketing language, and CNNSLOT is a real Indonesian gambling brand.

Nothing on the visible page has anything to do with gambling. The title is residue: the site was built on a template previously used for an Indonesian casino front, re-skinned as a British broker, with the one element nobody thought to change left in the source. It is a small detail and a decisive one, because it shows what the site actually is — a disposable template, dressed for whichever market it is currently pointed at.

What the regulators found

Italy’s CONSOB warned about White Arrow on 21 July 2026, recording that it may be offering financial services in Italy without authorisation. Broker-watchdog BrokersView reached the same conclusion from the other direction three weeks later, searching the FCA register for the authorisation White Arrow advertises and finding no valid result.

One clarification is owed to a third party. AMI Financial Solutions Limited is a legitimate, FCA-authorised Scottish business. It is named in this article only as the firm whose company number and addresses have been copied, and nothing here should be read as an allegation against it.

Check it for yourself

Nothing above depends on trusting us. Search the name on Google, ask ChatGPT, and run the register checks named in the evidence box. A regulator warning takes about a minute to confirm on the regulator’s own website, and that minute is the cheapest due diligence available to any investor.

Search Companies House for SC533818 and see whose company it is. Search the FCA register for firm reference 786883 and see the real firm. Then read the licence claim at white-arrow.org again. Two lookups, both free, both public, and the claim collapses.

If you have already deposited

Act on paper, not on hope. Save every screenshot, chat log, email, payment reference and wallet address before the platform can close your account — once access goes, so does your evidence. Report the loss to your national financial regulator and to your police force’s fraud unit. Tell your bank or card issuer immediately; where funds moved by card or transfer within recent weeks, a recall or chargeback is sometimes still possible. If you paid in cryptocurrency, the transaction cannot be reversed, but the receiving address is permanent evidence and exchanges can sometimes freeze onward movement.

Then brace for the second approach. Victims of investment fraud are frequently contacted again by people offering to recover the money for an upfront fee, sometimes posing as lawyers, regulators or the platform’s own compliance department. That is a second fraud aimed at the same victim. No legitimate recovery service, and no regulator anywhere, asks for a payment before returning your funds.

The bottom line

White Arrow poses as an FCA-regulated British broker using a Scottish company number that belongs to a debt-advice firm in Glasgow, reproduces that firm’s current and former addresses, and runs on a recycled Indonesian gambling template on a domain barely a year old. The licence it advertises does not exist in the form claimed, and the number behind it was never its own.

Reviewed by David Sanders, Licensed Fraud Investigation Agent, Investor Protection Unit — Pinkerton. Corrections: support@ettran.com.