In our next occasional video, the Association of British Credit Unions Ltd (ABCUL), our trade organisation, have produced a video explaining how Credit Unions have helped people in all walks of life. Click here to view.
In the next in our series of occasional videos, see this Youtube video from the Guardian showing how Credit Unions provide loans and savings, this time featuring credit unions from Wales. Click here to view.
The Chancellor is to give companies who took out Covid loans more time to make repayments. Full story here.
Read this story where financial guru Martin Lewis explains how to get a 0% overdraft from Lloyds, Halifax, Santander and Bank of Scotland.
This is the first in a series of occasional video articles from Youtube highlighting what Credit Unions can do to help the community. This video features the services offered by the StopLoanSharks team. Click here to view.
Martin Lewis has found 100,000 people with students loans who have been placed on the wrong sort of student loan repayment plan in this article.
The Illegal Money Lending Team have released their Winter Newsletter with some very interesting articles, including an app for Android and iOS to make reporting loan shark activity a piece of cake and to provide support and advice for those in problems. It’s a really good read!
It’s the festive season, the time of year when money melts away as fast as chocolate coins. When money is stretched to the limit or beyond, it might seem like a good idea to accept a loan from that friend at the shop or at work. Borrowing like this can become complicated or even dangerous […]
As a result of the much-increased workload at Christmas and to help protect our staff and members from Coronavirus infections, we are making changes to the way in which pay Loan Advances in the future. We will only pay Loan Advances by Bank Transfer to an account of your choice or as a transfer to […]
Read this story about Amigo Loans where the cost of complaints has soared recently and revenue has dropped. The FCA have become involved in clearing the complaints backlog.