FSCS declares Glasgow firm Atlantic Investors (Scotland) failed

The firm was voluntarily wound up by its director at the end of 2020

Hope Coumbe
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Atlantic Investors (Scotland) has been declared failed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme with applications now opened for claims against it.

The lifeboat fund confirmed the firm had failed on Friday (19 April) and said claims against it could be made by answering a number of straightforward questions. According to Companies House, the firm's director Timothy Twiddy signed a special resolution to wind up in December 2020. He had been director of the firm since its incorporation in 1996. The final gazette to declare the firm dissolved following liquidation was published last August.

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