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                                9th September 2010
                                 Top Story FSA branded a bully for debt collecting calls to IFA
                                Wednesday 8th September 2010
                                The Complaints Commissioner has spoken out against the methods used by the FSA to collect a debt from an IFA firm, according to the Financial Times. A letter written by the firm to the Commissioner, protesting against the regulatory body’s debt collecting agency, has led to a consultation between the warring parties. Commissioner Sir Anthony Holland, branded the methods of the quango’s debt collection agency as “hectoring,” after hearing a phone conversation between the agency and the firm. In a letter responding to the IFA firm, Sir Holland describes the agency’s approach as, “somewhat hectoring...with continual interruptions, which I consider does not reflect...
                                 Directors disqualified as financial franchise scam is exposed
                                Wednesday 8th September 2010
                                The directors of a group of companies which claimed to help those with poor credit histories by offering them franchise opportunities have been disqualified for 16 years. Following an investigation by The Insolvency Service, Christopher Lake and Stephen Knight who ran; Charter Financial Solutions Limited, Charter Financial Solutions (UK) Limited, Finance Select...

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                                 Conveyancing specialists face bankruptcy over £2m loan
                                Wednesday 8th September 2010
                                Legal firm partners who provide extensive conveyancing services to the intermediary market may face bankruptcy as they are made to repay over £2 million in bank...

                                 Calls for debt advice industry to be regulated as more firms fail
                                Wednesday 8th September 2010
                                Following the closure of two high-profile debt management companies, Manchester based Chase Saunders and TCF Debt Solutions, a number of debt experts have called for the...

                                 More credit card debt cancelled, but less call to charities - what’s the real picture of consumer debt?
                                Wednesday 8th September 2010
                                Reports by the Money Advice Trust that calls for help with credit card debt have dropped this year compared to previous years has led many Britons...

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                                Diary of a Debt Slave
                                I am twenty-eight years old. A university graduate. A regular, bright and fairly streetwise individual, who knows about the ways of the world and understands the relevance of the FTSE index... Read more
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                                In The Spotlight
                                A true success story that has emerged from the recent 2010 Debt Management Today Awards is surely that of new EuroDebt franchisee, Jenni Slader.Read more

                                Can a bailiff seize goods from premises if the debtor has not lived at the address for more than two years and the goods in question are not the debtor's property?

                                Without knowing the full details behind this question, the initial response would be no - the bailiff cannot seize the goods belonging to someone other than the debtor. In most types of debt, a bailiff can only seize (levy on) the debtor’s goods, though they can seize goods that are jointly owned. If the goods belong to someone else and they have been seized then it is for the real owner to apply to court to have them released. You can swear a Statutory Declaration regarding ownership of goods before a solicitor and present it to the bailiff to resolve the dispute.

                                I have had 2 personal loans for consolidation turned down within the last 2 weeks. I have been told that it is due to a poor credit rating. However I have since obtained 2 credit reports from Equifax and Experian, which both show that I have an excellent rating. I even appealed to Tesco Loans on this basis, and including the reports within the appeal letter, but I still got refused. Why is this and what rights do I have with finding out the exact reason as to why they failed me? I can never seem to get a straight answer, and just keep getting told that it’s the system that makes the decision.

                                As you will be aware from the press, lenders are taking a much more conservative approach to lending than before the credit crisis and you may be a victim of this tightening up. Having said that credit decisions are generally made using a combination of four things - the information in your application form, information obtained from a credit reference agency such as Experian, Equifax or Callcredit, the lender's scorecard and the lender's policy rules - e.g. you are not on the Voters Roll or have been at your current address for a very short period. It therefore may not be obvious from your credit report alone why you have been turned down.

                                Lenders are forbidden, by both the Office of Fair Trading and the Information Commissioner's Office, from telling potential borrowers that they have been turned down because of adverse information on their credit file when this is not the case. You say that Experian and Equifax have given you an excellent rating - the agencies do not rate individual applicants - the rating and the decision is individual to each lender and is that of the lender. Any score that the agencies may have included in your file is for guidance only.

                                I note that you have now applied for credit at least three times in a short period - this will have a significant negative impact on your rating which will take time to repair. I also note that you are applying for consolidation loans which indicate that you may already have a significant level of borrowing which you may be having difficulty servicing even if you a not in arrears or serious arrears - this too will affect your rating. Consolidation loans are generally much higher risk than other loans and hence the lending criteria are generally tighter.

                                Lenders are required by the OFT and the ICO and their own codes to give some indication of why they have turned you down provided this does not disclose commercially confidential information e.g scores for individual characteristics or policy rules - for obvious reasons disclosure of such information could lead to manipulation of future applications. There is therefore unlikely to be an"exact reason" why you have been turned down - rather a combination of factors means you do not meet those lenders' criteria. You should try not to apply again for credit in the near future - perhaps up to the year it will take for those searches to disappear from your file - to do so will merely exacerbate the problem you already have.
                                 
                                If you are struggling or know you are going to be struggling soon perhaps you should talk to your existing lenders or to one of the many advice agencies that are there to help.

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