Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for October 2018: Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1.5987 trillion at the end of August 2018. This is up from £1.5544 trillion at the end of August 2017, an extra £849.91 per UK adult and £66.96 higher than the previous month. The average…
Read moreUrgent action is needed to tackle discrimination against benefit claimants by buy-to-let mortgage providers according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA), following news that a landlord has had her mortgage revoked because she is renting to a benefit claimant. Helena McAleer, a landlord from Northern Ireland, contacted her bank, NatWest after she discovered that the…
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A new report has revealed the extent to which consumers are fooled by false economies. Seven in 10 (70 per cent) consumers in the UK experience false economies with a fifth (20 per cent) falling victim at least once a month. With false economies being so prevalent in the British consumer experience, the report says…
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Citizens Advice Scotland has published evidence showing that demand for advice on rent arrears increased by 47% between 2012 – 2017. The new Citizens Advice Scotland report, which considers the causes and consequences of this rise, finds that changes to the social security system have been one of the key drivers of the problem, in particular,…
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Consumer confidence fell by three percentage points in the third quarter of 2018, down to -7% after the previous quarter’s record level of confidence, according to the latest Deloitte Consumer Tracker. The quarterly survey of 3,105 UK consumers, which took place between 21 and 29 September, recorded its first fall in consumer confidence since Q2…
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New research from NS&I has revealed that 14% of Britons (7 million people) think they may have lost track of a financial product, highlighting the staggering amount of money left dormant with UK financial services providers. And it’s not just savings accounts, with a fifth (20%) admitting there is a possibility that they have lost…
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Latest figures from Worldpay show that contactless transactions have overtaken chip and pin payments for the first time in the UK, as consumers embrace more convenient forms of payment. Contactless usage jumped by 30% in the past year to become the most popular form of card payment for in-store transactions. This trend has continued into the second…
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Gamers will be the first in the UK to be able to send a text message so they can skip the awkward conversation about buying products on finance. Around 20 Experience GAME stores are taking part in a pilot run of Mobile for Credit, launched in partnership with Experian and Close Brothers Retail Finance, which…
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Personal finance ‘paralysis’ costs UK consumers £18.7 billion per year, according to new research from Freedom Finance. Freedom Finance, the fintech lending platform, worked with a senior economist from Strathclyde Business School to calculate the cost of personal finance indecision. The study found a failure to switch or consolidate credit card debts costs UK consumers £10.5 billion a…
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The Government has been urged to put £2 billion back into Universal Credit (UC) to boost the living standards of almost 10 million parents and children in working families in the Budget by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). JRF says its new analysis shows almost three million children are now locked in poverty despite living in…
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The Treasury Committee has published its response to the Household Finances Report from July. Commenting on the response, Rt Hon. Nicky Morgan MP, Chair of the Treasury Committee, said “In its report, the Committee expressed concern about the over-zealous debt collection practices of public authorities. The Government’s rehashing of existing policies in its response adds…
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People over the age of 45 who have failed to make debt repayments are three times more likely than under 25s to have a credit card balance not settled in full every month, according to the latest Arrow Global consumer research. Delving further into the findings on those who have failed to make debt repayments,…
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Consumer spending across a wide range of UK business sectors is being restricted due to low awareness levels around the availability of point-of-sale credit options. The figures come from a new research report, which found that if consumers didn’t have the immediate funds to purchase something they wanted, just 6% would think to check if…
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