Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Computershare has announced the successful transfer of £12 billion of buy-to-let Bradford & Bingley and Mortgage Express mortgages to their new owners. The transfer follows the sale of the loans to Blackstone and Prudential last year, and the new owners have retained the UK’s largest third-party mortgage administrator to provide a full suite of administration…
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The Government is due to undertake a major review of university funding and student financing. In its unanimously-agreed Report on Student Loans, the Treasury Committee has made a series of recommendations, which the Government should address as part of its review. Interest rates Justification for high interest rates on student loans is questionable Above-inflation rate…
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A recent survey conducted by leading online automotive shopping platform, CarGurus, has found that a staggering 47% of drivers with a car on finance admitted that they could not specify how much they had effectively borrowed to fund the vehicle. The research found that a further 63% of people with cars on finance acknowledge that…
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Ofgem has launched an investigation into Energy company Iresa’s customer service processes. The investigation will examine whether Iresa broke rules relating to customer information and customer contact. This includes examining whether they treated customers fairly in their call handling and complaints processes, gave indebted customers sufficient notice that they were taking a debt repayment out of…
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Collections specialist Grosvenor Services Group has announced two new appointments to its team. Russell Brewin has been brought on board as head of field operations, whilst Keigley Griffiths has been appointed as a new account manager. Brewin has 21 years’ of industry experience at NPower, where he was responsible for field operations, debt collection and…
Read moreDuring 2017, 22,763 debt decrees were registered against Scottish consumers, nine percent more than in the previous year according to latest figures by The Registry Trust. The combined value of all consumer decrees was £64m, just two percent higher than 2016. The mean average value of a consumer decree decreased seven percent. Dropping 10 percent,…
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New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that new business volumes in second charge mortgages continued to grow in 2017. Commenting on the 2017 new business figures for the second charge mortgage market, Fiona Hoyle, Head of Consumer and Mortgage Finance at the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA), said “Second charge…
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European debt purchaser Intrum has announced that Thomas Moss has been appointed acting Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Current CFO Erik Forsberg will leave the company next week Moss is currently the Director of Group Business Control at Intrum, a role that he has held for the past 4 years. Before he joined Intrum he held the…
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Latest figures from UK Finance have revealed that the number of home-owners’ properties being repossessed fell to a 36-year low last year. In 2017, 4,700 owner-occupied mortgaged properties were repossessed – down from 5,300 in 2016. Meanwhile, the number of landlords behind on mortgage payments has risen by 20%, with 1,200 buy-to-let mortgages in “significant…
Read moreNew figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that the number of second charge mortgage repossessions in 2017 was 105, 27% lower than in 2016. In the final quarter of 2017, the number of repossessions was 27, down by almost 31% compared with the same period in 2016. The rate of second…
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The number of debt judgments recorded in the Four Courts of Ireland fell to a historic low during 2017, according to figures released today by Registry Trust. There were 2,157 judgments registered against consumers in 2017, two percent fewer than the previous year and a record low. The mean average consumer judgment’s value fell 11…
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New data research by onefourzero and GK analysing the credit market has found that consumers now use debt to maintain their spend power. The report analysed demand data for credit cards and overdrafts, and found that reliance on consumer credit has become the new normal; British consumers are borrowing more now than ever before. What was…
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Ofgem has launched an investigation into the consumption information that Ovo Energy gave some of its customers. This includes the estimates the supplier gave customers about how much energy they used during winter 2016-17 and the accuracy of the annual consumption figures that it gave to customers in their annual statements. The investigation will examine…
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