Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
UK Finance estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £22.1 billion in June. This is 9% higher than May’s lending total of £20.3 billion, and 3% higher than the £21.5 billion lent in June last year. Gross mortgage lending for the second quarter of 2017 was therefore an estimated £60.3 billion. This is a 3% increase on the…
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The government has announced that card charges will be consigned to history, after Ministers act to end these unfair fees for millions of people across the country.rules that will mean card-charging in Britain – where people can be charged 20% extra for purchases like a flight just for paying with a credit card – will come to…
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UK Finance has released its latest UK Card Expenditure Statistics for May 2017. The statistics include: A third of card payments are now contactless, up to 33 per cent from 18 per cent in May 2016; A total of £4.5 billion was spent via contactless in May 2017, compared to £3.9 billion in April 2017; The…
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Mortgage sales for the UK decreased by £200 million in June, down 1.2% on the previous month, according to Equifax Touchstone analysis of the intermediary marketplace. Buy-to-let figures bucked the general trend, rising by 3.2% (£80 million) to £2.6 billion, while residential sales contracted by 2.0% (£280 million) to £13.9 billion. Overall, mortgage sales for…
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MoneySuperMarket analysed three million loan enquiries made on its Smart Search tool from January 2015 – March 2017 to find that more than one in four (28 per cent) Brits want to borrow an amount equal to at least half of their annual income. Worryingly, almost 10 per cent of personal loan enquiries are from people hoping…
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Aldermore has announced the appointment of John Wood to the newly created role of Chief Credit Officer. Wood joins Aldermore from Royal Bank of Scotland where he has worked for the last 27 years in a variety of portfolio management and risk roles. More recently he held responsibility for the embedding of a credit risk management…
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Lloyds Banking Group has announced a simplification of overdrafts for its personal current account customers. According to Lloyds statement, the new approach will be simple, clear and will give customers more control of their overdraft borrowing. “We understand that, across the banking sector, overdrafts can be complex and confusing for customers. Lloyds Banking Group has…
Read moreBritish financial firms need to respect the spirit, and not just the letter, of rules designed to prevent another financial crisis, one of the Bank Of England’s (BoE) deputy governors said on Monday. Sam Woods, who is in charge of the BoE’s day-to-day regulation of banks and insurers, said “fixed rules could never keep up…
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The Finance and Leasing Association’s latest figures see continued growth in second charge mortgage lending during May 2017. Commenting on 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 mortgage new business has ebbed and flowed over…
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New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show consumer finance new business grew in May by 8% compared with the same month last year. Credit card and personal loan new business together grew by 11% compared with May 2016, while retail store and online credit new business increased by 3%. Second charge…
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New research from innovative equity release lender more 2 life has revealed that 41% of over 65 year olds with a mortgage are on an interest-only product. Of these borrowers, almost 4 in ten are 65-74 year olds and over half (56%) are over 75 years old. Individuals who do not have a separate savings…
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A new toolkit to bring consistency to the way creditors work with debt advice agencies when collecting repayments from people who are in debt has been launched by the Money Advice Service today. This is the first time that all major debt advice agencies and creditors have worked together to raise standards of creditor practice…
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The creation of a Single Financial Guidance Body could help break down barriers stopping indebted individuals from receiving free and impartial advice, says insolvency trade body R3 ahead of a key parliamentary debate on the issue. On Wednesday (5th July), the House of Lords will debate the Government’s Financial Guidance and Claims Bill, which could…
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