Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Latest Bank of England figures show that the annual growth of consumer credit (which includes credit cards, personal loans and overdrafts) was up 10.3% in April, up from the 10.2% recorded in March, but lower than February’s 10.5% rise. There were 64,645 home loans approved in April, the lowest number since September last year. The…
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The Central Bank of Ireland has released Ireland’s Money and Banking Statistics for April 2017. Drawdowns of consumer loans exceeded repayments by €158 million in April, the largest monthly increase since January 2011. The new lending largely comprises medium term loans, which typically include car loans, furniture and holiday loans. Here is an overview of the latest…
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Rapid growth in the use of contactless cards means cash will be overtaken as Britain’s most frequently used payment method by the end of 2018, according to a new report published by Payments UK, the trade association for the payments industry. This latest forecast still does not herald the demise of cash – even in…
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TDX Group has announced that it has won the Nottingham Post Business Award for ‘Contribution to the Community.’ The win as thanks to the phenomenal efforts of its 360 employees who, in 2016, raised more than £97,000 for charities in and around the East Midlands. £89,266 of the total amount raised went to its charity…
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The Debt Advisor has announced that the company has secured full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to offer full advice and debt solutions including debt management to individuals. Beverley Budsworth, MD and Insolvency Practitioner, who originally set up the business in 1999 said :The business has grown over the years and is proud…
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Noble Systems, has announced that a partnership with Account Technologies, has seen an impressive growth of their contact centre with the Enterprise Cloud platform. Account Technologies were able to unify their solution to ensure streamlining of the management reporting and to offer a simplified improved desktop for their agents to help improve productivity and the agent…
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Irish regulator, The Central Bank of Ireland has fined the Bank of Ireland (BOI) €3,150,000 by the Central Bank of Ireland in respect of anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing compliance failures. The Central Bank of Ireland reprimanded BOI for twelve breaches of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act, 2010 (the ‘CJA…
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Mike O’Connor will leave StepChange Debt Charity later this year after leading the organisation as Chief Executive since 2013. As the UK’s largest debt advice charity, the number of people in contact for help each year has grown over the last five years by 62% to 600,000. The charity also tackles the causes of problem…
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New research from Which? University reveals that undergraduate students find managing finances as stressful as exams. A survey of over 2000 undergraduate students at UK universities shows that one in seven (15%) rank managing finances as the most stressful aspect of their university experience, alongside exams (15%) and almost as stressful as coursework (18%). The figures…
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Cabot Credit Management (CCM) has announced its financial results for the three months ending 31 March 2017. As part of the results, Cabot announced that it has acquired Orbit Debt Collection, a UK based debt contingency business who specialises in the Utilities sector. In addition, Cabot has also obtained regulatory approval for the Irish business, Cabot Financial Ireland,…
Read moreVolumes of data handled by telcos are growing fast, and the pressure is on to minimise breaches. With the implementation of new general data protection regulation (GDPR) just one year away Steve Martin, Data Protection Officer at Equifax, said “Mobile data traffic is set to increase seven-fold between 2016 and 2021,[1] and telcos need to work…
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Debt is a part of modern life according to more than half of people over 50 shows a new survey.* Whilst one in four said that they would never borrow money and more than two thirds said they would always use cash savings over borrowing money, a third of over 50s said that they would…
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The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £18.4 billion in April. This is 11% lower than March’s lending total of £20.7 billion, but is 4% higher than the £17.7 billion lent in April last year. Commenting on market conditions in this month’s market commentary, CML senior economist Mohammad Jamei…
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