Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Judge and Priestley LLP (J&P) has announced that it has recently gained Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) authorisation. This comes in addition to its traditional authorisation and regulation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). The move to seek FCA authorisation came in response to increasing client demands for J&P Credit Solutions (J&P CS), the debt recovery…
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Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for February 2018: Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1.572 trillion at the end of December 2017. This is up from £1.512 trillion at the end of December 2016 – an extra £1,105.77 per UK adult. Per adult in the UK that’s an average…
Read moreConsumers were less constrained in their leisure spending in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to the previous year, according to the latest findings from the Leisure Consumer Q4 2017 report by Deloitte. The quarterly survey of more than 3,000 UK adults found that 2017 ended positively for the leisure sector, with consumer spending increasing in seven…
Read moreThousands of people with mental health issues are trapped in a spiral of escalating according to latest research by The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. The institute said that in 2017, 23,000 people were being pursued while in hospital for mental health problems. Money and Mental Health is asking for the government to consider…
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Councils across the Black Country and Staffordshire called in bailiffs to collect more than £21 million in debts over the past two and a half years, new figures have revealed. From 2015 six local authorities used debt collectors on 161,471 occasions, with council tax arrears accounting for around 65 percent of cases. The association that…
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Almost one in three working-age adults in Northern Ireland are out of work, according to a new Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report that shows that Northern Ireland’s employment rate is lagging behind the rest of Great Britain. The warning comes as JRF highlights the poverty rates in Northern Ireland and the challenges facing low-income families.…
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Omnichannel contact centre technology specialist Noble Systems has announced the dates of its 2018 Select Noble Users Group (SNUG) Conference series. The conferences help Noble’s users “get connected” to their Noble products and collaborate with other users, so they can work faster and smarter, lower costs and optimise results. Noble Systems hosts the SNUG Conferences…
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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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Aire has announced two new senior appointments. Peter Jackson, a former CEO of Worldpay UK and current CEO of Paddy Power Betfair, took the post of Chairperson of Aire’s Board of Directors in October 2017. Previously, Jackson worked as Head of Global Innovation at Banco Santander and held senior positions at Lloyds and Halifax. His…
Read moreThe 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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Today’s young adults are much less likely to own their own home than those in their place one or two decades ago according to a new report IFS research which looks at how and why homeownership rates have changed for young adults over the past twenty years. The biggest decline in homeownership has been among…
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Credit Kudos and Lending Works have announced a partnership that creates one of the first commercial applications of the new Open Banking standard. Credit bureau Credit Kudos and Lending Works, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, are partnering to enable customers to benefit from the UK’s Open Banking initiative, a secure way for banking customers to take…
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Vernon Building Society has announced the appointment of Steve Fletcher as its new Chief Executive. Fletcher succeeds Mike Hanson, who has retired. Fletcher joins from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, where he was head of customer banking networks. Fletcher says: “I am delighted to be joining the society at such an important and exciting time in its…
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