Customer Complaints

Our aim is to provide all of our clients with an excellent level of service.  However, we recognise that there could be an occasion when you do not feel satisfied with the service you have received from us. We take complaints very seriously and with this in mind we have developed a Customer Complaints Procedure which lets you know how we will deal with your complaint or issue.

Should you need to make a complaint, please contact our Complaints Manager using any of the following methods:

In person

In writing – Simon Horton, Ascend Broking Group, 21 Springfield Lyons Approach, Chelmsford Business Park, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 5LB

By telephone – 01245 449060

By email- simon.horton@ascendbroking.co.uk

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) offer eligible complainants a free independent service for resolving disputes. You may contact the FOS by:

·       Calling their consumer helpline on:

 0800 0234 567  (free on mobiles and landlines), or   

 0300 123 9123  (cost no more than calls to calls to numbers starting 01 or 02)

·       Writing to them at:

The Financial Ombudsman Service

Exchange Tower

London E14 9SR

·       Emailing:                  complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Further detailed information about the FOS, including a description of eligible complainants, can be found:

• In our Client Complaint Procedure.
• In the FOS’s leaflet ‘Your Complaint and the Ombudsman’ which we can provide you with, or it is available to download from the Financial Ombudsman Service website.
• On the Financial Ombudsman website: http//www.fos.org.uk