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New report: Used Car Finance Market Insight 2024
This report focuses on the UK market for secured consumer finance for used cars. It provides unique analysis of the market, split between finance sold by franchised dealers and independent dealers, and volumes that are handled by specialist brokers sitting between car dealers and finance companies.
The latest report, published February 2024 that non-prime lenders continue to take market share from the more established firms, with some leading bank-owned players leaving the market. It provides new evidence, based on company accounts, that the average interest rate charged for used car finance - excluding the effect of base rate changes - has been increasing since 2019
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Sub prime credit in Europe - how price caps and other regulation drive market size
My new research for Apex Insight shows the very different non/sub-prime credit markets across continental Europe, building on our existing annual study of the UK market.
This is a market driven by one key factor: regulation. Its forms vary considerably with different types of price caps or other controls on lending, but the end result is that the European market is dominated by countries where controls are relatively light for now.
The study includes short profiles of leading players in the European market, many of which operate either in most of the key markets or at a European geographical region level.
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Retail Point of Sale Finance 2023
In addition to most large retailers in retail sectors including furniture, leisure and jewellery, around 10,000 independent retailers, including online-only stores, currently offer POS finance. POS solutions are also becoming increasingly popular in service sectors including travel, home improvements and medical.
Apex Insight's latest annual review , with analysis from AFP's Julian Rose, identifies the latest trends and continues to track POS solutions offered by many of the largest retailers.
The report covers firms including Barclays Partner Finance, BNP Paribas (Creation), Hitachi Capital, Ikano Bank, PayPal Credit, Home Retail Group, Shop Direct (Argos), Deko (Pay4Later), V12, Klarna, Divido, Conister Bank, Honeycomb, Lending Works, Omni and Paybreak.
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UK Non-Prime Consumer Finance market 2023
Apex Insight's report, Non-Prime Consumer Credit: UK Market Insight, with analysis from AFP's Julian Rose, provides a detailed view of the UK market for consumer credit agreements with average fixed interest rates over 30% per year. It covers sectors including guarantor finance, high cost short term credit (payday lending), home-collected credit, instalment credit, motor finance, credit card and other revolving loans, pawnbroking, logbook loans and rent-to-own.
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New report profiles key players in consumer credit debt market
In recent years, two parts of the consumer debt purchase and debt collection market have diverged: collection of consumer credit, and collection of other types of consumer debt. Apex Insight's new report, with analysis from AFP's Julian Rose, focuses on the growing consumer credit side, identifying the leading firms in this highly regulated business.
The study includes profiles of the debt firms specialising in this sector, including Intrum, Arrow Global (Capquest), Cabot Credit Management (Wescot), Hoist Finance UK (Robinson Way), Paragon Bank (Idem Capital), Link Financial, GFKL Lowell, Max Recovery, Lantern, PRA Group, Arvato Financial Services, BPO Collections, Credit Resource Solutions (CRS), Debt Managers, Drydens (Drydens Fairfax), Moriarty Law, Perch Group (ACI), JC International (Creditlink Account Recovery Solutions), PRAC Financial, ResolveCall, SLL Capital and Moorcroft.
Based on consumer credit forums and other sources, the report also maps the debt firms to the sellers, identifying the types of consumer credit debt that different purchasers are focused on.
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