Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
The number of UK workers turning to high-cost short term loans (payday loans) as they struggle to cover their living costs and make ends meet continues to rise. Using data collected from over 700,000 payday loans requested between January 2017 and December 2018, credit broker CashLady has gathered together an in-depth analysis of the average…
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Morses Club, the UK’s second largest home collected credit lender, has announced that it has acquired Shelby Finance and certain assets of CURO Transatlantic trading as WageDayAdvance out of administration. The total consideration for the acquisition is approximately £8.5m paid in cash, 50% on completion and the balance over 5 months (depending on the final…
Read moreHere is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for February 2019: Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1.625 trillion at the end of December 2018. This is up from £1.576 trillion at the end of December 2017, an extra £935.34 per UK adult, £81.72 higher than the previous month. The average total debt per…
Read moreThe Money and Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) has welcomed a commitment from the British Medical Association (BMA) that GPs will stop charging for the form people with mental health problems need to get debt support. The commitment by the BMA – the professional body for all UK doctors – is part of the new Five Year GP…
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Consumers can save more than £2,500 a year by taking control of their finances, new analysis from Experian has revealed. Families are overpaying on their mortgages and energy bills, and those paying interest on their credit cards can cut their costs by switching to a better deal. Experian has launched Money Matters Week to help…
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A coalition of charities has urged the Government to take urgent steps to protect people and places in poverty from the financial consequences of Brexit, including no-deal. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), Shelter, Trussell Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Action for Children, National Children’s Bureau, Poverty Alliance, Turn2us, Barnardos and ATD Fourth World have sent…
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New figures released by the Finance Leasing Association (FLA) have shown that the number of second charge repossessions in 2018 was 147, 8.1% higher than in 2017. In the final quarter of 2018, the number of repossessions was 28, down by 26.3% compared to the same period in 2017. The number of properties repossessed during…
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UK Finance has published its Mortgage Arrears and Possessions Update for the fourth quarter of 2018, which saw 4580 homeowner possessions in 2018, the lowest level since 1980 when there were 3480 possessions. During this period, there were 6.2 million outstanding homeowner mortgages, compared to 9 million at the end of December 2018. The data…
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Shard Credit Partners has announced the completion of the management buy-outs (MBO’s) of both BW Legal Services and PRAC Financial by Rachael Withers, COO and co-founder of both businesses. Shard Credit Partners acted as exclusive financing provider, underwriting £13.5 million of committed senior secured unitranche facilities to complete the two deals. The innovative financing structure…
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The Credit Service Association (CSA) has responded to last week’s Financial Ombudsman’s figures on debt collection. In a statement the CSA said “Recent media reports using figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) fail to mention that the total number of complaints relating to debt collection activities has in fact fallen year-on-year, is significantly lower…
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The Credit Services Association (CSA), the voice of the UK debt collection and debt purchase sectors, has further strengthened its Board of Directors with the appointment of four new senior industry executives. Frank Horvath has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services, including 27 years as a lender, debt seller and debt placer. His…
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More water companies should pour some of their own profits into schemes designed to help cash-strapped households with their water bills, according to the Consumer Council for Water (CCWater). The Water Watchdog wants the industry to increase its funding of financial assistance for low-income customers, ahead of a 2 percent rise in the average water and sewerage bill in England…
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Ofgem has announced that the energy price cap for customers on default (including standard variable) tariffs, introduced on 1 January 2019, will increase by £117 to £1,254 per year, from 1 April for the six-month “summer” price cap period. The price cap for pre-payment meter customers will increase by £106 to £1,242 per year for…
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