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Debt news and policy

Debt Camel articles on what's changing - and what ought to change - in the world of personal debt in Britain.

If you are interested in a specific area, look at: High cost credit news & policy and Insolvency news & policy.

January 2019 – Wageday Advance proposes cutting the refunds it pays

Wageday Advance asks the FCA for a Scheme of Arrangement On 31 January 2019, Curo, the American parent of payday lender Wageday Advance (WDA) announced it is in talks with the FCA about a Scheme of Arrangement (SOA) for its redress liabilities in the UK. See Curo's statement in its end-of-year results. These liabilities are the payday loan refunds that WDA is having to pay to current and … [Read more...]

February 1, 2019 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy, Schemes of Arrangement

Debt advice in 2018 – my round up of the year

At the end of 2017 I wrote: Persistent credit card debt and overdraft charges tackled, bailiffs brought under control, SFS being used by all creditors, and a breathing space that will actually work in practice – that would be a good 2018. That would have been an amazing 2018 - I would have been happy with just a couple of those. But it is disappointing that none of them were achieved this … [Read more...]

December 30, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: For debt advisers

Is your refund from Vanquis right? It’s probably too small!

Have you had an email or a letter from Vanquis saying it is refunding you some money? In late 2018 tens of thousands of people are getting these refunds. Nice? Yes, but it may be too low... Some people are being given tens of pounds when I think they should get hundreds. And people getting hundreds should be getting thousands! There were no details of the refund in the email or letter … [Read more...]

December 19, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy, Vanquis

Barclays & Barclaycard send letters offering a refund

UPDATE Spring 2024 Barclays is sending people some “NOSIA” letters – because Barclays failed to send you a Notice of Sums In Arrears letter and because of that it is refunding interest after the date the letter should have been sent. The Response Form can be found here https://www.barclays.co.uk/help/remediation/orf/ – that is a genuine page. It says some people may need to send a picture of … [Read more...]

December 5, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: Barclays

FCA will cap BrightHouse prices and interest from April 2019

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is capping the cost of buying from BrightHouse, PerfectHome and other pay weekly shops from April 2019. This is very good news. It is not just a cap on the interest, where the FCA has imposed the same 100% cap that currently applies to payday lending. The FCA is also proposing controls over the prices of the goods the shops are allowed to charge. … [Read more...]

November 23, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy

How the Wonga administrators will handle refunds – the Proposals

The Wonga Administrators sent a letter in late October to some of Wonga's creditors with their proposals to handle the administration. These include: background on the events before administration; how to decide the payday loan affordability complaints that have already been sent to Wonga; and how to encourage other customers to submit a complaint. These Proposals were agreed by a … [Read more...]

October 31, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy, Payday loans, Wonga

Dear Payday Lender CEO – should you start a redress program?

On October 15, the FCA sent a Dear CEO letter entitled Affordability of High Cost Short Term (HCST) loans to payday lenders. This letter tells the lenders to review their affordability assessments. There are some very clear points about what the FCA expects a payday lender to do if it is not making good affordability assessments now or hasn't done in the past. "Chains of loans" over an … [Read more...]

October 16, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy, Payday loans

2018 – Ombudsman decides it can look at payday loans over 6 years old

The Financial Ombudsman (FOS) has published in September 2018 two Decisions involving payday loans over six years old: Mr H has complained about fifty-four payday loans Lender C lent to him between March 2010 and September 2014. Mrs W’s complaint is about nine short-term loans from Lender D between November 2009 and July 2012. In both cases FOS has decided that its rules do allow it to … [Read more...]

October 5, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: For debt advisers, High cost credit news/policy, Payday loans

IP regulation – Insolvency Service find major problems

The Review of the monitoring and regulation of insolvency practitioners that was published by the Insolvency Service last week found evidence of many of the problems in Individual Voluntary Agreements (IVAs) that I and other free-sector debt advisers have been talking about for several years. Although it is often not specific about what has to be done, the report is clear that change has to … [Read more...]

October 1, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: Insolvency news & policy

Lessons to be learned from Wonga – 6 policy challenges

It's now a few weeks since Wonga went into administration. This seems like a good point to ask some difficult questions about the lessons from Wonga and what should be done to reduce consumer harm in future. Much of the media coverage has gone as follows: Wonga was the worst - then the FCA fined them and made them write off debts in 2014 and introduced good payday loan regulation in 2015. … [Read more...]

September 24, 2018 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: High cost credit news/policy, Payday loans, Wonga

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