PRA Group extends sponsorship of MALG Friday Forum to facilitate ‘working together to improve the lives of people in debt’ in the wake of the pandemic
PRA Group has announced that it will once again partner with not-for-profit organisation Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) to sponsor its ‘Members Friday Forum’ throughout 2022. The MALG Members Friday Forum was launched in March 2020 to enable money advisers, creditors, regulators, policy-makers and others from the financial services and advice sectors in the UK […]
Read MoreData-driven partnership gives thousands of vulnerable people access to faster, more accurate financial support
A partnership between global information services company Experian and TIPTrust, which supplies data and technology to the free debt advice sector, has helped transform the delivery of free debt advice during the pandemic. By providing faster, more accurate client data to debt advisers, the partnership has enabled those seeking free debt advice to get the […]
Read MoreChristians Against Poverty publishes report on financial difficulty and digital exclusion
Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has published a report on financial difficulty and digital exlusion. According to the Lloyds UK Consumer Digital Index, 2.6 million people in the UK do not use the internet regularly. 14.9 million have very low levels of engagement. People experience digital exclusion for a whole range of reasons, from the wide range […]
Read MoreMoney and Mental Health Policy Institute publishes report on ‘money and mental health in a time of crisis’
Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has published a new report: ‘The state we’re in: money and mental health in a time of crisis’. It offers a ‘state-of-the-nation’ snapshot of the financial and mental wellbeing of people across the UK during the pandemic. For the report, they commissioned the largest ever nationally representative survey on […]
Read MorePayplan partners with Plain Numbers to tackle low numeracy levels
Debt advice organisation Payplan has joined forces with Plain Numbers, an organisation dedicated to helping firms support their customers who struggle with numbers and data. This new partnership will allow Payplan to better serve its clients by presenting numbers and data in a totally new way to increase engagement with debt advice and improve levels […]
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