5 Results from 2021
Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
The UK Treasury recently published a consultation on how it will regulate BNPL, potentially making the UK the first major credit market to regulate these booming, innovative products. The FCA said the sector quadrupled to £2.7bn last year during the pandemic - to about 1% of the UK’s entire credit market - with more than 5 million active users. Th...
16 November 2021 /regulation /retail BNPL
Fintech’s, merchants, and big tech brands are forming new attractive buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) and hybrid instalment-based offerings shaking up credit card lending and forcing businesses to rethink data requirements and strategies. Growing at a rate of 39% per year and expected to exceed $260 billion by 2025, BNPL services can’t be ignored. BNPL of...
14 October 2021 /payments /retail BNPL
In this blog, we debunk the top five misconceptions that we hear from credit providers – the blockers that stop them from getting the best price for credit data. Did you know? Prices can vary by upto 500%. Even if you choose to stay with the same credit data provider, you can get more favourable terms by renegotiate mid-contract or at renewal. Plu...
15 June 2021 /payments /retail Financial Risk Management
It’s increasingly difficult to achieve a reliable data set – and that could mean you can’t trust the information shared within your lending organisation. So, what’s the solution? In this blog, we explore how to gain high-quality data for credit risk programs, like AML, without it taking an abundance of your time. Beyond satisfying regulatory gover...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Data Management and Governance
6AMLD: A quick look at the data requirements for the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is one of the most intense areas of financial regulation. With the development of money laundering crimes constantly evolving, the steps firms take to prevent these crimes are often insufficient. With the 6th Anti-Money La...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation
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