Payday lender collapses after £20m refund programme - Cash Genie

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Payday lender collapses after £20m refund programme - Cash Genie

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 7th January 2016 16:49

Payday lender Cash Genie has entered liquidation, just months after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) forced the company to pay £20m in redress to more than 92,000 customers. Liquidators RSM are now seeking former customers who may be entitled to a payout as a result of the company’s practices. In 2014 Cash Genie voluntarily notified the FCA that it had engaged in unfair practices and agreed to an independent review of its past business. The FCA found that Cash Genie had failed to treat customers fairly in a number of ways, including charging customers just for referring them to its sister debt collection agency, Twyford Developments Ltd. Loans were also rolled over or refinanced without customers’ explicit request or consent and without undertaking appropriate checks or assessments of customers’ situations

Prior to engaging with the FCA, the company wrote off more than £10.3m in charges and interest. Whilst 76 percent of the £20m redress package has already been paid out to customers, around £1.5m of funds remain unclaimed. As Cash Genie and its sister company Twyford Developments Ltd (which traded as Carter Forbes) have now gone into liquidation, the official liquidators from RSM are working to trace the remaining customers who have not yet come forward for their redress payments......Read more here

Previous AAD News Blog:July 2015
Payday lender Cash Genie to provide £20m in redress