New Financial Inclusion Report highlights uneven recovery from cost of living crisis
Open-data lender Plend’s Financial Inclusion Report 2024, entitled ‘A divided nation’, is one of the largest explorations into financial inclusion in the UK. The report, contributed to by Nationwide Building Society, StepChange Debt Charity, ClearScore, University of Bristol, Fair By Design, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Big Society Capital, highlights an uneven recovery from the […]
Read MoreAdviceUK AdvicePro users offered three months free instant access to client credit reports
AdviceUK, the UK’s largest network of advice-giving organisations, is offering its members using AdvicePro in England a free three month trial of instant access to client credit reports from 1 April 2024. This service, provided by ‘debt-tech’ collective Trustfolio, enables advisers to enhance the quality and speed of service they offer clients, saving time and […]
Read MoreFCA warns firms and finfluencers to keep their social media ads lawful
The FCA has set out how adverts across social media channels must be fair, clear and not misleading, meaning they must have balance and carry the right risk warnings so people can make well informed financial decisions. Social media has become a central part of firms’ marketing strategies. Firms are on the hook for all […]
Read MoreMoney and Mental Health Policy Institute publishes new research showing millions of Britons are at risk of avoidable long term mental health and money problems
Money and Mental Health’s new report (sponsored by Barclays) looks at people’s experiences of financial and mental health problems from 2019-2022, covering the period just before the pandemic up to the start of the cost of living crisis. Entitled ‘Always on your mind‘, it examines how people aged 25-54 (i.e prime working age) experienced this combination […]
Read MoreUK Regulators Network (UKRN) publishes joint letter on debt collection
As part of Debt Awareness Week 2024, the UK Regulators Network (UKRC) has published a letter setting out the consumer outcomes that the FCA, Ofcom, Ofwat and Ofgem expect to see firms delivering, in response to identified consumer harms in the context of the cost of living crisis. The key consumer harms in debt collection […]
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