Quick News - Results from #20

Saturday, 02 December 2017 10:41

What will happen if interest rates rise to 5% APR

Ever wondered what would happen if interest rates went back up to a more normal 5% APR? Most of the media focus is on people’s mortgages but higher rates will have wider effects than just…

Thursday, 30 November 2017 14:13

We will no longer be answering our phones, sorry

It is with regret that we have to announce that we can no longer justify the cost in answering our phone lines. This comes on the back massive rise in the volume of victims of…

Thursday, 23 November 2017 19:57

£40 Billion Brexit Divorce Bill Is £615 each

Reports that Theresa May and her Cabinet have agreed to offer the EU £40 billion pounds should come as bad news for everyone. But just to show how bad it is, we will break it…

Tuesday, 21 November 2017 15:09

Lenders that have positive public reviews that are almost certainly fake

We were recently doing some market research on our competitors to see who was offering what. We started to notice that almost all of our competitors have thousands of public reviews. Without a shadow of…

Saturday, 18 November 2017 23:13

Will the Chancellor Commit Career Suicide By Lowering The Vat Threshold?

Reports that the Chancellor is about to lower the threshold at which small businesses start paying VAT can’t possibly be true, surely? Can the Chancellor truly be that daft? Can’t he see that it would…

Wednesday, 15 November 2017 10:02

Should we feel sorry for fraud victims? We aren’t so sure anymore

For those of you who don’t know we get about 50 calls a day for people who pay upfront for loans that don’t exist. At first we used to feel some sympathy, but now we’ve…

Friday, 03 November 2017 15:11

Quick loans Lodges Complaint Against Martin Lewis With The FCA

Today we have lodged a complaint with the FCA about the conduct of so-called Money Expert Martin Lewis for giving advice on regulated products, in this case mortgages. We believe there is a case to…

Thursday, 02 November 2017 15:52

Mis-sold Your Student Loan? Join Our Legal Challenge

We are looking for a mixture of 10 current and former students who feel they may have been mis-sold their students loans. We are looking into are the possibility of funding a legal challenge against…

Tuesday, 24 October 2017 13:54

Quick Loans Announces the Launch of Pay As You Warm

We are pleased to announce that we are moving ahead with our new service “Pay As You Warm”. The new service is completely different from anything else available because it will partially disable boilers if…

Wednesday, 18 October 2017 10:08

Could You Live Without a Credit Card?

Credit cards are part of our society now. The original credit card in the UK was issued by Barclaycard in 1966. However, credit vouchers were created long before this, back in 1880. At that time,…

Monday, 16 October 2017 08:04

How to Reduce Your Water Bill

Remember when your water bill was for a set amount? No matter how conscious you were about saving water, you still had that same bill to meet every month. Now, thankfully, things have changed. Since…

Friday, 13 October 2017 08:55

How to Cope with the Emotional Side of Debt

Getting into debt isn’t something anyone sets out to do. However, every year, there are people who find themselves in debt, and cannot pay their way out of it without taking some drastic actions. There…

Wednesday, 11 October 2017 17:44

Work experience - should we do it or is it a 'mickey take'?

For youngsters, as every year passes, it is getting harder to get a job and pay their own way. Fact. The problem is that for every one job that becomes available, almost forty people apply…

Tuesday, 03 October 2017 13:52

We Are Not Century Finance In Barnsley

We have received many calls over the last week asking us if we are Century Finance or are connected to them in any way. We understand that there are issues with Century Finance and it…

Tuesday, 03 October 2017 11:58

It's so important to have a good credit rating

Quite a large number of youngsters are keen to get financially savvy these days. In fact, we are constantly inundated with advice requests from people as young as fourteen that are eager to find out…

Friday, 22 September 2017 13:55

Can Uber Actually even be banned from London? We don’t think so

It’s long been a question that we have thought about; and now that Uber has been given notice that it won’t receive a new license to operate as a private hire company in London. Just…

Thursday, 21 September 2017 10:04

We launch a new dating service based on your credit score

We are proud to announce our new dating site “Credit Score Dating”. A site that will match single people based solely on their credit scores rather than other features. Studies show that it is now…

Friday, 15 September 2017 22:16

Home ownership is now something of the past

Be honest, have you given up the dream of owning your own home? If the answer to this is yes, then you are not alone. More and more people in their early 30’s have realised…

Wednesday, 30 August 2017 10:37

How Quickly Do Authorities Act On Scams? Part 1

Later this week or early next we are going to be running a new story on enforcement by the FCA, and Action Fraud. As luck would have it (bad luck for consumers) we have this…

Monday, 28 August 2017 14:11

The FCA and Provident Credit

There are times when we have been called a bit thick, we’ve all had our dumb moments and this maybe one of them. But we wanted to air some questions about the Provident Credit issue…