Payday Loans Complaints Increase Whilst Guarantor Loan Complaints Remain Low
Last month, the BBC reported that the number of payday loan complaints has tripled in the last year despite new laws introduced to protect consumers. Accordingly, there were 3,216 complaints about short-term loans in 2015/16, compared to 1,157 in 2015. Several new rules have been brought in by the FCA since January 2015 including: a price cap charged by lenders at a maximum of 0.8% borrowers will not be allowed to
Read MoreGoogle to stop showing paid adverts for payday loans and guarantor loans
Last week, Google made a huge announcement that they will not longer be allowing payday lenders to advertise in the paid section of their search results. This has huge implications for the £2 billion payday loan industry in the UK (and of course the US where the policy is originated). With over 201,000 monthly searches for payday loans in the UK, the pay-per-click section is likely to be accumulating around
Read MoreBank Unauthorised Overdrafts More Expensive Than Payday Loans
Payday loans are commonly criticised in the press for being too expensive, and their sister guarantor loans also don't get off easy. Before the FCA regulation come into effect in January 2015, the payday industry charged representative APRs of 1,000% up to 6,000% - which led to a lot of backlash from MPs, journalists and religious figures. However, in reality, those loans of up to £1,000 that are supposed to
Read MoreHow do search footprints affect my credit rating?
What is a search footprint? When applying for a loan or credit card application and the lender runs a credit check on your account, they will leave a mark on your credit file as a record that they have checked your file and this is known as a 'search footprint.' This is a way of hypothetically saying that the lender has stepped inside your credit file and looked at your payment history
Read MoreHow does Continuous Payment Authority work?
Continuous Payment Authority is a collection method used by several banks and lenders in the UK as a way of automatically collecting funds from a customer's debit account on their repayment date. CPA or 'recurring payments', as it is also known, is used by most of the guarantor lenders that we feature. When a customer applies, their debit card will be 'tokenised' and this typically involves the lending taking 10p out
Read More