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Personal debt

  • Prepayment customers twice as likely to go into debt, new data reveals

    Cost of living crisis

    People with energy prepayment meters in their homes have been nearly twice as likely to dip into debt due to the cost of living crisis than others, according to new data. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 26 per cent of adults who pay for their gas or electricity up front reported using credit because [...]

  • Cost of living crisis: UK lawyers braced for talent war and surge in fraud cases

    Economic downturn

    Lawyers working in top British companies are anticipating a hike in fraud, disputes, and debt recovery cases over 2023 as the UK’s economy takes a turn for the worse, a new survey shows. In-house lawyers expect they will be forced to deal with the fallout of the UK’s cost-of-living crisis as the economic downturn sets [...]

  • Brits scramble to borrow more than £100bn with average loan hitting £5k as cost of living crisis deepens

    Money & income

    Brits will borrow £101.1b on new credit cards, loans, overdrafts and other forms of new credit arrangements in the next 12 months, new data shows today, Research undertaken by YouGov on behalf of financial services review platform Smart Money People, found that 71 per cent of people currently have less disposable income than they would [...]

  • UK firms slash debt levels as interest rates rise

    July 6, 2022

    UK firms are paying off debt for the first time in eight years as rising interest rates dissuade further borrowing and strong cash flows are channelled into repaying existing debt, a new survey has revealed.

  • Almost 60 per cent of the country is in debt with amount owed rising to almost £4,000 in year ahead

    June 9, 2022

    Almost sixty per cent of the nation is currently in debt and the average amount owed is set to rise by 11 per cent to £3,834 in the year ahead. The deepening cost of living crisis is eating away at people’s savings, while average Brits are set to lose almost £1,500 in disposable income a [...]

  • Young, female, living in London: Who are the millions of people in the capital struggling to make ends meet?

    March 29, 2022

    Five million working people now face the prospect of being unable to meet their financial commitments, according to new research shared with City A.M. this morning. from Baringa, the business consultancy. In the wake of the pandemic and with inflation at a 30 year high, specific groups of workers, such as women and young people, [...]

  • Half of retirees worry about running out of money but most have not sought out advice

    February 16, 2022

    Almost half of retirees are worried about running out of money in their retirement. Yet more than three quarters have never sought out professional advice, according to research from investment company Abrdn.  The Abrdn research shows that 48 per cent of retirees are worried about running out of money in retirement. At the same time, [...]

  • Your money in 2022: Personal finance trends to keep an eye on this year

    January 16, 2022

    What personal finance trends are likely to shape 2022? New research shared with City A.M. looks at the sentiment and behaviours for this year. The pandemic, mixed with wider economic issues and the rising cost of living, appears to have had an effect on Brits’ relationship with money, because the findings from consumer research platform [...]

  • Credit management veteran reflects on the pandemic: ‘Have you had a good crisis?’

    November 11, 2021

    Colin Storrar, the CEO of Lowell, one of the UK’s largest credit management companies, returns my question with a question, or rather a series of questions, when asked about his priorities since the first national lockdown was announced. “How have you treated your people this crisis? Have you thought about their work environment? Have you [...]

  • Perpetual debt is already here

    October 12, 2021  |  City Talk

    “Be still indebted to somebody or other, that there may be somebody always to pray for you, [. . .] fearing, if fortune should deal crossly with you, that it might be his chance to come short of being paid by you.”  François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III Pundits worldwide are debating what to do with [...]

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