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Personal debt

  • Boris bad credit score: PM rejects court ruling over £535 in unpaid debt

    May 12, 2021

    Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected a court ruling that found he has an unpaid debt of £535.  The court records listed Johnson at his official address, 10 Downing Street, according to Reuters today. Johnson’s office have said they will ask for the ruling to be removed from his record as it was “totally without merit”. [...]

  • Those in debt to be given 60 days breathing space before enforcement action

    May 4, 2021

    People in debt will be given 60 days to get their finances back on track without debts piling up, worrying letters or enforcement action, under a new government scheme. The scheme – called ‘Breathing Space’ – will give those in debt legal protections from their creditors for 60 days, with most interest and penalty charges [...]

  • Today final day for borrowers to apply for payment holiday on mortgages, cards and loans

    March 31, 2021

    Borrowers have until the end of today to apply for a payment holiday on products such as mortgages, personal loans and credit cards. Eligible customers who have not taken a payment holiday before, and those who have previously had a payment deferral totalling less than six months, have until tonight to apply. Payment holidays are [...]

  • Exclusive: Londoners take out 133 per cent more payday loans to cover Christmas this year

    December 4, 2020

    Pressure on households to overspend this Christmas is increasingly making Londoners resort to payday loans to cover the costs of the festive period. Payday loans in London are set to increase by 133 per cent as households struggle to cover the costs of the holidays, according to the findings of a survey that pan-European credit [...]

  • Why Open Banking is the next finance revolution

    January 15, 2020

    The saying that the “customer is king” has been an accepted truism for a long time. But it is only recently that this has really been the case, with technology largely driving a shift of power away from traditional providers to the consumer. Think of how music streaming services like Spotify completely changed how we [...]

  • Credit providers must learn to embrace new technology

    August 8, 2019

    Personal finance has a legacy problem. Until now, those who weren’t familiar with its inner workings have never truly understood financial products and services.  A combination of technical jargon and a lack of clarity concerning the impact that certain decisions might have on a person’s credit rating has often left consumers very confused about exactly [...]

  • Young voters today care about far more than just tuition fees

    July 18, 2019

    Student debt is, once again, pledge fodder as politicians jostle for power. Conservative leadership hopeful Jeremy Hunt has promised to wipe student debt for successful entrepreneurs and reduce interest on loans, the Brexit Party has pledged to remove and reimburse interest altogether, while Labour has long vowed to scrap tuition fees entirely. It’s not hard [...]

  • DEBATE: Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street?

    December 18, 2018

    Is the Asos profit warning a sign that online retailers face the same challenges as the high street? Scott Guthrie, a digital strategy consultant​, says YES. Online retailers have previously appeared immune to the hardships faced by their high street rivals. Yet there are many marketplace similarities between the two opposing business models – especially in [...]

  • People’s ex-partners are spending £1.2bn on shopping sprees using joint credit cards

    August 14, 2015

    Dealing with a broken heart is bad enough – but it turns out vengeful ex-partners are leaving their former beloveds with an altogether more tangible pain, after new research found exes have racked up £1.2bn on joint credit cards. According to the study, by comparison site uSwitch, 2m people in the UK have been left [...]

  • Moody’s sounds alarm over rising UK credit card debt leaving consumers unprepared for interest rate rises

    July 16, 2015

    Credit ratings agency Moody's has sounded the alarm over the rising level of UK consumer debt saying it leaves borrowers increasingly vulnerable to economic shocks. The new report on the risk of rising consumer debt in the UK, found unsecured lending such as credit cards and personal loans jumped to nearly seven per cent year-on-year [...]

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