FLA comments on FCA mortgage regulation announcement

Commenting on the FCA’s consultation paper on new rules for second charge mortgages, Fiona Hoyle, Head of Consumer Finance at the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA), said:

 “The timetable for implementing all the new rules for second charge lending is extremely challenging and greater flexibility will be needed to avoid significantly disrupting the market.”

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 Note to editors:

1.  FLA members in the consumer finance sector include banks, credit card providers, store card providers, second-charge mortgage lenders, motor finance providers, personal loan and instalment credit providers.
2. In 2013 FLA members provided £89.0 billion of new finance to UK businesses and households. £66.6 billion of this was in the form of consumer credit representing almost a third of all unsecured lending in the UK.