Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Scottish Building Society has appointed Raymond Abbott as its new Chairman, Abbott takes over the role from Rob Golbourn who will remain as non-executive director until he retires from the Board in October. Abbott, who is a chartered accountant, has been vice-chairman and senior independent director at the Society since 2015, and a member of the Board since…
Read moreThe Residential Landlords Association (RLA) have called for credit referencing agencies to include rental payment history when calculating the credit rating of tenants. The Association says “This would seem only fair when the penalty for landlords and homeowners for even one month of missed mortgage payment can be so severe when applying for a new…
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Home collected credit lender, Morses Club has announced that the Group has secured an extension to its existing loan facility. Shawbrook Bank has increased the overall revolving facility from £25 million to £40 million. The loan facility has also been extended from its existing expiry date of March 2019 to August 2020. This will support the growth strategy…
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Freedom Finance and Asda Money have announced an unsecured personal loan partnership. The partnership will provide Asda Money’s customers with access to Freedom Finance’s specialist broker team and to its financial technology platform to search through its panel of lenders. The new platform can be accessed online and via telephone and will give customers the…
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Virgin Money has announced a new partnership with Countrywide Surveying Services to support new build, custom build and shared ownership borrowers. The move follows the lender launching a range of custom build and shared ownership products last month. Countrywide will provide a specialist and operational team dedicated to all new home valuation instructions, supporting borrowing on properties…
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New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show growth of 7% in consumer finance new business in June, compared with the same month last year, and growth of 4% in the second quarter of 2017 overall. Credit card and personal loan new business together grew by 10% compared with June 2016, while…
Read moreNew figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that point of sale (POS) consumer new car finance business volumes fell by 8% in June, compared with the same month in 2016, while the value of new business was flat over the same period. In the second quarter of 2017 overall, new business…
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New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that the second charge mortgage growth continued in June. Commenting on the June 2017 new business figures for the second charge mortgage market, Fiona Hoyle, Head of Consumer and Mortgage Finance at the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA), said “In June, the second charge…
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High Street lender H&T has announced its latest company results with it’s loans business showing an 88% increase on last year. The results for the last six months (ending 30th) June 2017. John Nichols, Chief xEecutive, said: “We have made a strong start, in this our 120th anniversary year, with a 62% increase in profit before…
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Complaints about consumer credit including payday loans and hire purchase showed a rise in the second quarter according to latest statistics released by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Consumer credit complaints totalled 7,281 in the three months to June 30, up from 5,846 in the same period last year. Payday loans, which provide short-term credit at…
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Credit decisioning specialist Zoot, has announced a partnership with credit scorecards specialist Credit Kudos. The combination will enable lenders to easily incorporate account transaction data into their existing risk process, leveraging Credit Kudos’ pre-configured risk models through Zoot’s cloud-based platform integrating data and scoring to create a seamless application process. Adam Jackson, Zoot’s Managing Director…
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UK Finance has announced the latest first-time buyer activity statistics which show continued growth in June. Here is an overview of the main statistics: On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, UK Finance data shows that mortgage lending in June rose: First-time buyers borrowed £5.9bn, up 26% on the previous month and 9% on June 2016. This…
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Short term lender Oakam, has appointed Julie Haugen to Chief Product & Marketing Officer. Most recently, she was Oakam’s Head of Digital Strategy & Customer Experience, playing an instrumental role in the digital transformation of the business. In her new position, Haugen will drive customer-led digital product innovation through closer alignment of Oakam’s marketing and…
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