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The interim findings of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Mortgage Market Study have highlighted the challenge of mortgage prisoners. In addition, the report says long-term and lifetime lending is another concern and that the FCA is looking to firms to use their common sense to make sure they’re matching the right products to the right…
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A new report by research specialist Gartner says that Digitalisation will make most heritage financial firms irrelevant by 2030. These firms will struggle for relevance as global digital platforms, fintech companies and other nontraditional players gain greater market share, using technology to change the economics and business models of the industry. Speaking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2018 on…
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The Insolvency Service has published the latest personal insolvency statistics for Q3 (July to September 2018) for England and Wales. The statistics show that total personal insolvencies fell by11% from a six-year high in Q2 2018 and are 2% lower than in the same quarter in 2017. This was driven by a decrease in individual voluntary…
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The Government has that it will introduce a No-Interest loan scheme and breathing space plans as part of the Autumn budget announcement. Responding to the news The Money Advice says it ‘welcomes action’ on tackling problem debt, including the new details of the government’s Breathing Space scheme, plans to pilot a no-interest loans initiative and…
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The Bank of England latest figures has revealed that consumer credit increased by £0.8bn in September. This was less than in August, as new borrowing for car finance fell sharply. Consumer borrowing grew at its lowest rate for three years last month after car sales dropped 20 percent, The annual growth rate of consumer borrowing…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published the complaints figures for regulated firms for the first half of 2018. Complaints continued to increase for the fourth successive half year, reaching a new record level of 4.13 million complaints made to 3,161 firms. This was a 10% increase compared with the previous 6-month period. 98%…
Read moreThe introduction of Universal Credit is causing unacceptable hardship and difficulties for many of the claimants it was designed to help according to a report by the Government’s public accounts committee. The report says that while the Department is responsive to feedback on its digital systems from staff, it has persistently dismissed evidence that Universal…
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Research from comparethemarket.com has revealed that nearly one third (30%) of consumers do not think they would be eligible to borrow any money in the form of a mortgage. Nearly 13 million people are estimated to be affected, as exclusive polling reveals that many applicants do not take the necessary steps required to boost their eligibility and…
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Experian has announced that rental payment information will appear on credit reports of more than 1.2 million tenants from across the UK. Tenants can see their rental payments on Experian’s CreditExpert and statutory credit reports as part of the Rental Exchange initiative, developed in partnership with the Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of…
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UK Finance has published its household finance update for September 2018 which reveals that Gross mortgage lending across the residential market in September was £21.5bn, some 1.2 percent lower than last September. The number of mortgages approved by the main high street banks in September was 9.1 percent lower than last September; approvals for house purchase…
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The proportion of landlords looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according to Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index which has been capturing the experience and views of approximately 200 mortgage intermediaries on the development of the UK mortgage market each quarter since 1995. The latest survey, tracking developments for the third quarter…
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The UK rental market remained in recession during the third quarter of 2018 (Q3 2018) according to the most recent figures from The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS). In the latest edition of its Rent Index, which is based on the organisation’s database of millions of properties across the UK, The DPS reports that average…
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Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for October 2018: Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1.5987 trillion at the end of August 2018. This is up from £1.5544 trillion at the end of August 2017, an extra £849.91 per UK adult and £66.96 higher than the previous month. The average…
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