Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Arum has been selected to join the Business Consultancy Services Lot of Management Consultancy Framework Two (MCF2), run by Crown Commercial Services (CCS). The launch of this framework enables central government and the wider public sector to select pre-approved consultancy firms to tender for both national and international projects. Securing this place means that Arum can continue to grow its presence in the public…
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UK Finance has published its latest Mortgage Trends update for June 2018 which has revealed that there were 37,400 new homeowner remortgages completed in the month, some 8.4 per cent more than in the same month a year earlier. The £6.8bn of remortgaging in the month was 13.3 per cent up year-on-year. Other highlights from…
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UK tech firm CreditLadder is one of three Fintech companies to win through to the final of HM Treasury’s Rent Recognition Challenge (RRC) announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond as part of the Autumn budget statement in November last year. The RRC was launched to help develop applications that will help renters boost their credit scores,…
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Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for August 2018: Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1.592 trillion at the end of June 2018. This is up from £1.545 trillion at the end of June 2017– an extra £900.74 per UK adult. Per adult in the UK that’s an average debt of…
Read moreA new study from Dun & Bradstreet has revealed that while finance leaders remain tasked with business profitability, their remit has expanded to include the sharing of data across the organisation and management of risk. The Risk Revolution report found the top challenge for finance leaders today is monitoring risks within a business’ customer, supplier, or partner…
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From today the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will enforce new rules requiring providers of personal and business accounts to publish information that will help current customers to compare bank accounts from different providers. Banks will have to report major operational and security incidents that have taken place and disclose whether 24-hour customer helplines are available. The pressure…
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Fraud prevention service, Cifas has released new figures showing that identity fraud has fallen for the first time since 2014. Cifas members recorded 84,463 cases in the first six months of the year, a 5% drop compared to the same period in 2017 (89,199). Despite the reduction, identity fraud still represents over half of all…
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The finalists for Credit Connect’s second annual Credit & Collections Technology Awards 2018, the UK’s celebration of tech innovators in credit and collections, have been revealed. The Credit & Collections Technology Awards, organised by Credit Connect, brings together credit and collections technology executives to honour the industry’s leading players across 18 categories. The Technology focused-Awards scheme seeks…
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New research from GoCompare has revealed the £41billion bill for modern goods and services -things that are sapping our finances now, but which most of us wouldn’t have been paying out for just 10 years ago. The comparison site has identified 20 so-called ‘Nouveau Bills’ that are costing UK adults £66 a month or £788 a year…
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The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) has announced the appointment of Simon McDougall as Executive Director for Technology Policy and Innovation. McDougall is currently Managing Director of Promontory – a risk management and regulatory compliance consulting firm acquired in 2016 by IBM, where he founded and led a global privacy practice. He has extensive experience of…
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New open banking specialist Moneyhub has secured Payment Initiation Services Provider (PISP) authorisation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The authorisation goes one step further from Account Information Services Provider (AISP) status, enabling seamless payments as well as visibility of all financial transactions across accounts in one place. Alongside giving control of payments, income, expenditure,…
Read moreA new report by Which? has revealed how the broken deposit system is placing financial pressure on renters, with some tenants facing weeks to get their money returned or having to challenge charges that they feel are unreasonable. The consumer champion’s findings reveal that two in five (43%) renters that faced moving costs used a…
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Personal Insolvencies for the UK’s under 25s have risen 20% in just a year, from a total of 4,709 in 2016 to 5,640 individuals in 2017, according to new analysis from Moore Stephens. Within the under 25s age bracket, women are more likely to become insolvent than men with 3,175 women going insolvent in 2017…
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