Are the UK loans providers missing an opportunity?
31 January 2012 | Personal Loans | Ruth Janssen
This month saw the most recent update to the Personal Loans Dashboard. The Dashboard compares a list of individual personal loan services across fourteen competitors. It is updated quarterly, highlighting competitor changes that have occurred in the market during that time.
One key highlight...keep reading
This quarter sees a continuation in the trends of only offering loans to existing customers or withdrawing from the market entirely
28 August 2009 | Personal Loans | admin
The August update of Mapa’s quarterly Personal Loans Dashboard has recorded 20 changes. Marks and spencer personal loan calculator
In last quarters update we noted that Direct Line and Lombard Direct were no longer accepting loan applications whilst Egg were only accepting applications from...keep reading
A number of personal loan providers are no longer offering loans to new customers
28 May 2009 | Personal Loans | admin
The May update of Mapa’s personal loan dashboard saw a number of the providers monitored withdraw from the personal loan market.
Direct Line and Lombard Direct (both members of the RBS group) have messages on their sites stating that they are not currently accepting loan applications as does...keep reading
40% of sites monitored on the Dashboard have recently stopped selling LPI online
13 March 2009 | Personal Loans | admin
For some time now selling loan payment insurance has been profitable business for UK banks, however not without criticism from consumer bodies and regulators. For example in October last year FSA fined Alliance & Leicester £7 million for serious failings in its telephone sales of LPI.
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