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VANQUIS & FAIR FINANCE LAUNCH INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP
VANQUIS & FAIR FINANCE LAUNCH INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP TO HELP 100,000 PEOPLE ACCESS AFFORDABLE CREDIT AND UNCLAIMED BENEFITS First of its kind decline referral partnership will support up to 100,000 financially underserved people with benefit checks and affordable credit Pilot programme has already helped over 2,600 people unlock finance and access
Fair Finance appoints Mark Allcock as CTO
Fair Finance is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Allcock as Chief Technology Officer to lead the next stage of our technology transformation strategy. Mark brings a wealth of experience to the business with a career spanning 30 years in portfolio, investment, asset management, payments, digital banking and lending.
Fair Finance and Fair4All Finance agree £3.3m social investment deal to tackle financial exclusion across the UK.
Award winning social business Fair Finance provides affordable credit, advice and support to some of the most financially excluded in the UK £3.3m will support Fair Finance’s digital transformation and increase the number of people it can serve Social investment is part of Fair4All Finance’s Affordable Credit Scale Up Programme,
Is a high acceptance payday loan a good idea?
Many people are facing huge financial challenges right now. As well as the ongoing impact of the pandemic, the £20 a week Universal Credit uplift is being removed, energy and fuel prices are rising, and from April 2022 there will be an increase in National Insurance which will later become
Interviewing Oakam’s founder on digital transformation and microfinance
Earlier this year Faisel Rahman, Founder and CEO of Fair Finance, sat down to interview Frederick Nze, Founder and CEO of Oakam on their journey from a branch-based lender to a mobile first service. The talk was hosted by Fair4AllFinance as part of the ThinkIn program on sharing insights and
Launching our Online Advice Tool and Benefits Calculator
We know that the Covid pandemic has hit the financial resilience of our clients hard (see our work here). We know as well that this picture is reflected across the country the Money Advice & Pension Service estimating that the need for debt advice will increase by over 1 million
Fair Money Advice MD, Muna Yassin awarded MBE for charitable Financial Services during Covid
We are proud and honoured to share the news that Fair Money Advice MD Muna Yassin, has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2021 and has received an MBE for charitable Financial Services to Disadvantaged People during Covid-19. We are delighted that the critical role free debt and
Impact of Covid19 on Financial Vulnerability
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit we knew the impact on our clients would be serious, but we were unsure of the different ways in which they would be affected. We also lost our primary route to engaging with our clients, by closing our branches and moving to more remote services.
Black Lives Matter
The recent death of George Floyd and so many other racially motivated lethal injustices in the past remind us that so much more needs to be done to tackle the scourge of racism – here in the UK and around the world. We stand in solidarity with our brothers and
Fair Finance CEO Faisel Rahman receives honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK for his contribution to supporting the social enterprise movement
Faisel Rahman has been recognised for his outstanding work in shaping, guiding and championing the UK’s social enterprise sector by being awarded an honorary fellowship from Social Enterprise UK, the trade body for the sector. Social enterprises are businesses which trade for a social or environmental purpose, reinvesting the majority
