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PayPlan has announced a new partnership with MYJAR to explore ways of reaching out to individuals who might be seeking debt advice. PayPlan, working with MYJAR, is trialing the use of text messages and web pages with content that has been written to better communicate with clients, including a diagnose your debt tool to encourage them to seek free debt advice sooner. Peter Munro, partnerships director at
PayPlan, said: “We are really excited about working on this trial with MYJAR to explore new ways of engaging with customers who may be experiencing difficulties with managing their money. “We have always worked well with
creditors using traditional contact channels and now hope to become the debt advice partner of choice for any creditors wishing to engage their customers digitally.”
A digital bank data service that aims to remove the paper trail to simplify and speed up loan applications is set to launch in the UK. Proviso’s BankStatements system automatically retrieves statements and provides financial data feeds for more than 700 clients, including ASX and NYSE- listed clients. Proviso co-founder and CEO, Luke
Howes, said: “Proviso works to remove the pain and friction out of getting bank documents, utility statements and notices. It is a simple idea, but like Uber and AirBnB it took a lot of trust to get it going but is turning out to be quite successful.”
Neural Technologies has appointed former Roscom business development manage, Tarik Zilate. He joins to expand sales initiatives in West, Central and North Africa and the Levant. He said: “These are exciting times for
Neural and I am very proud and fortunate to be a part of a company passionate about innovation with positive changes. I look forward to leveraging my market knowledge and relationships within the EMEA telco community to help the company succeed as it enters its next phase of development.”
Mortgage sales for the UK increased by £3.4bn in May, up 25.4% on the previous month, according to Equifax Touchstone
July 2017
Sompo Canopius AG has announced that Will Clark has joined the group to head a new Trade Credit Insurance team. The group has made four more hires for the team – Yvonne McCormack, Scott Morrison, Claire Davenport, and Daina Muceniece, who bring with them over 60 years’ combined experience in trade credit and trade finance. Bernie de Haldevang said: “We have expansion plans for
our specialty lines and establishing an experienced team with someone of Will’s calibre as its leader is both a significant commitment and a noteworthy step. With only a few people writing this kind of trade credit business in London in a meaningful way, we believe that our offering will be immensely valuable to new and existing clients, providing sophisticated insurance buyers a tailored and high service level approach and giving them the backing and certainty that they need in difficult global market conditions.”
Will Clark
analysis of the intermediary marketplace. Buy-to-let figures jumped 26.1% to £2.7bn, with residential up 25.2% to £14.3bn. In total, mortgage sales for the month grew to £17bn. John Driscoll, director at Equifax Touchstone, said: “Following weak figures last month, prompted by government intervention to cool buy-to-let property sales and election uncertainty, mortgage sales have rebounded in quite spectacular fashion, hitting a monthly high for 2017 of £17bn, with every single region experiencing notable growth. The outlook for the market however remains murky as issues such as political uncertainty linger; but we could see this sales boost continue into the summer months.”
Christians Against Poverty has been officially authorised by the FCA. CEO Matt Barlow said: “We fully support the FCA in its mission to ensure best
The British Exporters Association (BExA) has announced that The Rt Hon Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC, has been appointed as the association’s new president. Marcus Dolman, BExA co-chairman –
large corporates, said: “We are very pleased with the appointment of Baroness Symons as our new president. She has a long and distinguished career in trade and we look forward to working with her to strengthen BExA’s position as the leading voice of the UK’s export community.”
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practice in the industry on behalf of the consumer. It has long been our goal to offer the very best service to some of the most vulnerable in our society and, therefore, I am delighted the FCA has given us this official authorisation.”
Euler Hermes has appointed Melissa Dowle as director of customer strategy and Mike de Bresser as commercial director. CEO, Milo Bogaerts, said: “Melissa and
Mike both have outstanding track records in new business, maintaining a high level of client satisfaction, and developing profitable growth. We live in turbulent times globally, which demands greater focus on client needs.”
Tinubu Squarehas announced the launch of a new version of its credit-insurance suite, aimed specifically at the needs of emerging credit insurance and reinsurance businesses.
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