The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced it is retaining its existing definition of vulnerable consumers in response to its Consumer Approach...

Responding to the publication today of the Financial Conduct Authority’s consumer approach, StepChange Debt Charity is pleased to see that the regulator has...

Online research from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, reveals a lack of awareness of banking options among Brits. When presented with a list...

Employers are not grasping the depth of concern staff feel about their financial, physical and mental health, according to new research from Neyber into the...

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has become the first credit reference agency (CRA) to sign the Women in Finance Charter. HM Treasury has...

One-in-five (22%) British adults have had an outstanding credit card balance for at least six months, including the 4% of British adults who have had an...

Intuit Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Intuit Inc (Nasdaq: INTU), and Lloyds Bank (LSE: LLOY), announced today that its direct bank feed is now live. Now,...

Thursday 13 July marks six-months since Open Banking was introduced, with the government aiming to dramatically increase competition and ensure a much better...

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has formed a strategic alliance with consents.online, a digital consent management and AISP accredited Open...

New figures released today by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that consumer finance new business in May grew by 11%, compared with the same...

Fleet Mortgages, the buy-to-let and specialist lender, has today (4th July 2018) announced a revamp of its entire product range with new options across its...

Six months into Open Banking, online research from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, reveals that two fifths (40%) of Brits willing to share...

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (2nd July 2018) added private bank, Hampden & Co, to its lender panel. From today,...

Today’s data from the Bank of England shows that consumer credit growth rates continued to slow in May, but remains rapid relative to 2009-12. Although net...

Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPDB) Credit Card Center, a credit card lending pioneer in China, has increased its customer base using originations powered...

The Money Advice Trust has today published its latest impact report which outlines the impact of its advice services, training and influencing work in 2017....

StepChange Debt Charity notes that the Financial Conduct Authority today reports that bank overdrafts are significant drivers of profitability on bank personal...

Today’s UK Finance figures show credit card spending has risen considerably in May. This could be an indicator of affordability issues, which could have a...

Oblix Capital, a specialist short term lender, has joined The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) as a new associate member. Membership of the ASTL now...

The UK’s largest credit reference agency, Experian, can now offer Open Banking and PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) services to enable the exchange of...

The UK’s biggest personal insolvency practice Creditfix has taken 15th spot in a major employee poll to uncover the best companies to work for. Headquartered...

In 2017, one in five clients of StepChange Debt Charity had an additional vulnerability (such as illness), on top of their problem debt. New analysis from the...

Following the Bank of England’s recent letter warning about the growing risks attached to the provision of 0% credit card balance transfer offers, Daoud...

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has today (14th June 2018) announced its best ever month for mortgage applications with its advisers...

Nationwide Building Society’s reputation rating of 7.3 out of 10 is dovetailed by extremely high recommendation among customers (8.1), making it the UK’s...

UK consumers look set to spend more on international travel this year than in 2017, the latest findings from Ferratum’s Summer Barometer have found....

In support of the tenth annual My Money Week (11-17 June 2018) Equifax has partnered with Young Enterprise in order to equip young people to grow-up with the...

On Friday, 01 June 2018, the National Credit Regulator (NCR) joined forces with the South African Police Service (SAPS) in an operation aimed at curbing...

Alarm bells are starting to sound as fears rise over the impartiality of the Financial Ombudsman’s review chief and his ‘perceived closeness’ to the...

High rents are here to stay so as a direct consequence employers must be prepared to pay much higher wages to staff to enable them to afford these much higher...

The Chartered Institute of Credit Management has welcomed the planned review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) into high cost credit and particularly...

The FCA today published the outcomes of a review into high cost credit, including overdrafts, doorstep loans, catalogue credit and rent-to-own borrowing. The...

Responding to the FCA’s review into high cost credit, Money Advice Service Chief Executive, Charles Counsell, said today: “We welcome the FCA’s...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its high-cost credit review. The review outlines proposals designed to protect people who use...

The net result of the proposals in the Financial Conduct Authority’s High Cost Credit Review published on 31st May is that fewer people, particularly those...

Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, has today (30th May 2018) added The Melton Building Society, and its subsidiary, MBS Lending, to...

Raiffeisen Bank will use new customer onboarding technology from analytic software firm FICO to increase its digital lending capabilities in Romania. FICO...

Abundance, Britain’s leading peer-to-peer ethical investment platform, today launches a new move into the social and affordable housing sector, building on...

Analysis by StepChange Debt Charity reveals that two in five clients who received advice in 2017 were behind on at least one of their essential household bills...

Following the FCA’s statement on robo-advice, which required many providers to make ‘significant changes’, Robbie Constance, Head of Financial Services...

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) has written to the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) calling for the OBIE to amend the terms of the CMA’s...

The directors of an investment company, who own nearly 250 properties, are set to grow their portfolio after Together delivered funding secured against part of...

Following on from its Mortgages Market Study Interim Report, published earlier this month, a number of lender representatives have questioned whether the...

News that wages have risen is welcome but there is still a very long way to go to make up the ground lost due to the recession in 2008 and inflation since...

A Sowerby-Bridge based finance management specialist has won a prestigious regional industry award. Martin Mellor, founder and managing director of Mellor...

Residential lender Secure Trust Bank has joined the panel, not only of Connect for Intermediaries mortgage network but also its packaging arm. Brokers from the...

With 12.5 million work days lost each year as a result of stress, depression and anxiety, the global membership organisation Business Disability Forum is using...

LCP’s latest LCPAca Residential Index reports annual new build sales* falling 13.8% in Prime Central London with quarterly transactions plummeting to 88....

The Right DA Club, the directly authorised arm of The Right Mortgage Ltd, has officially launched its compliance packages for directly authorised firms. The...

New figures released today by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that consumer finance new business in March was at a similar level to that...

Following the Bank of England’s (BoE) decision not to raise interest rates today, Richard Haymes, Head of Financial Difficulties at TDX Group, an Equifax...

CarMoney, the fast-growing Glasgow-based motor finance business which was launched in 2016, is set to expand its financing activity into car leasing as a...

The number of debt judgments registered in Jersey rose slightly during the first quarter of 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust....

Just Mortgages is taking on two new Financial Service Directors (FSDs) following its most successful year to date. These are just two of a raft of appointments...

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition, has today launched a new helpdesk specifically focused on answering member queries relating...

At the 4thannual Motor Finance Conference held in Berlin on April 26th, MotoNovo Finance was recognised as leading bank owned independent finance provider in...

Banks may be forced to pay a further £18bn to consumers in payment protection insurance (PPI) claims ahead of the August 2019 deadline, following...

Today’s data from the Bank of England shows a monthly slowdown in the rate of growth in consumer credit lending – but in the first quarter of this year,...

The Bank of England has today published its latest monthly Money and Credit report showing consumer credit growth was 8.6 percent in the year to March 2018,...

John Phillips, group operations director at Just Mortgages and Spicerhaart, says, “Overall mortgage approvals were broadly unchanged for March, but within...

Santander has confirmed a three year extension to its valuation and risk services partnership with Hometrack, covering collateral risk management solutions...