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The Association of Professional Debt Solutions Intermediaries (APDSI) has announced the appointment of new Affiliate Member Y3S Debt Rescue.
Operating to service debt management and IVA referrals from IFAs and mortgage brokers, Y3S Debt Rescue was formed in 2007 by the Y3S Group. The company also operates a secured loan portal called MiLoans.Alasdair Warwood, Secretary General of the APDSI, said: “We are pleased that Y3S Debt Rescue has become an Affiliate Member of APDSI. The directors of the business have extensive experience of the broker market and understand the difficulties they are currently facing in terms of placing mortgages and secured loans.“The emerging regulatory environment, with greater clarity on what constitutes debt advice, has meant that many IFAs and mortgage brokers require the debt counselling category on their CCL. An important role of our Affiliate Members is to ensure that users of their services are compliant and are educated in the requirements of the licensing regime with the support of APDSI.”APDSI was established in November 2010, and was set up with the aim of helping intermediaries and brokers offer a range of debt solutions to financially disadvantaged clients, whilst complying with regulations on consumer credit and debt advice. The association wants to ensure intermediaries can offer all forms of debt solutions, including Debt Management Plans (DMPs), Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), Protected Trust Deeds (PTDs) and bankruptcy.APDSI is expecting considerable interest from intermediaries that are currently involved in referring clients in financial difficulties to reputable debt solutions providers, particularly in light of the updated OFT Debt Management Guidance which includes clarification on unacceptable practices by lead generators and on licensing requirements.Barney Drake, Director and Co-Founder of Y3S Debt Rescue, commented: “Y3S Debt Rescue has been trading for just over three years. Y3S’s focus has always been to service intermediaries’ customers with first class service and ensure their customers’ needs are met entirely by taking away the stress they receive from their creditors.“Y3S Debt Rescue therefore plays a significant role in Y3S Group’s offering to its introducer base and intermediaries will be able to submit business to Y3S for debt management packaging through www.miLoanbroker.com by the end of 2011.“With these developments, the formation of APDSI and Y3S Debt Rescue’s Affiliate Membership is ideal timing as we move into 2012, as it will help ensure Y3S keeps abreast of developments within the industry.”APDSI is supported by a number of Founder and Affiliate members who have the shared aim of developing consumer confidence in the quality of advertising and advice offered by all parties involved in delivering debt solutions. All members of APDSI are expected to hold a valid Data Protection Notification and an active CCL with debt counselling (Category E). Alasdair Warwood continued, “We aim to work with Y3S and our other Affiliate Members to extend the range of communications to prospective members, including more face-to-face sessions where we can more fully inform intermediaries on best practices and the likely impact of regulatory change on their individual business.“Financial intermediaries represent a very substantial channel into the debt advice sector and are often the first point of contact for indebted consumers or micro-businesses. “In the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) report ‘Helping Over-indebted Consumers’ in April 2010 it made reference to 56,000 licensed debt advisers in the UK, of which many are financial intermediaries. Our Founder Members and Affiliate Members, including Y3S, work with thousands of these financial intermediaries on a day-to-day basis.”The association has also entered discussions with a number of regulators, most notably the OFT, with regard to representing its members’ concerns about the complexity of the inter-locking compliance regimes that are affecting small businesses.Share this article:quick links...
© 2011 Clark Richards is a trading style of Complete Money Limited.
Oxford House, Oxford Road, Macclesfield, SK11 8HS Company Registration No. 6246376.
Consumer Credit License No. 0609783. FSA Firm No. 478215.
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What we collect – We may collect the following information:
“What we do with the information we gather” – We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
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We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Oxford House, Oxford Road, Macclesfield SK8 8HS. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
The agreement between you and us is made on the following terms:
“You” – Our client and partner where any of the debts are in joint names)
“Us” – Clark Richards Financial Management is a trading style of Complete Money Limited. Registered Office: Oxford House, Oxford Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 8HS. Licensed by the Office of Fair Trading under Consumer Credit No. 609783 and FSA Registered under Reg. No.478215.
“Creditors” – Any and all of your unsecured creditors whose details you will provide to us in accordance with Section 3.
“Debt Management Program” – A plan of repayments produced by us in accordance with section 4.2
“Period” – The period which the Debt Management Programme is in operation.
“Fees” – The fees to be paid by you to us in accordance with the Debt Management Programme.
2 Agreement
You request us and we agree to provide you with a debt counselling advisory and adjusting service in accordance with these terms and conditions. You authorise us to negotiate on your behalf with your creditors. This agreement shall continue until final repayment to the Creditors is made in accordance with the Debt Management Programme, unless it has been terminated beforehand in accordance with Section 6.
3 Your Responsibilities
3.1 You will provide to us on request information relating to your finances. This will include but will not be limited to details of your income and expenditure, your creditors and any agreements you have with them, any loans, or mortgages you have, your dependants and judgements’ made against you or any other enforcement action being taking against you.
3.2 You will sign any necessary forms of authority or any other documents so that we may negotiate with your creditors on your behalf and generally carry out our obligations under this agreement.
3.3 You will pass all correspondence from your Creditors to us and keep us informed of any dealings you have with any Creditors whether we are negotiating with them or not. Once the Debt Management Programme has been agreed, you will not make any expenditure over or above your reasonable living expenses as calculated in the Debt Management Programme. You will not use your credit cards, nor incur further debts.
3.4 You will consult with us in relation to your Debt Management Programme of repayments and in relation to any alterations to it or reviews of it. Your payments to us will need to be amended to reflect any reasonable changes which your circumstances dictate. You will make payments to us under and in accordance with the Debt Management Programme promptly and without and deductions.
3.5 On occasions your Creditors will not provide us with balances of your account due to their own company procedures. If these circumstances arise then you will obtain this information for us and supply us accordingly.
3.6 We cannot be held responsible for any legal action taken against you by your Creditors as a result of fraudulent or incorrect information provided by you at the time of acquiring a loan, HP agreement, credit card or any other forms of credit.
3.7 Non contact from you will not be considered as cancellation of the agreement. If any funds are owing to you then written confirmation will be required to release funds owing to you in accordance with Section 6 of this agreement.
3.8 If you do not maintain regular payments we will suspend any action and payments on your account. Your creditors may have to be informed that payments are not being maintained. This may result in your Creditors continuing legal action against you for which we cannot be held responsible
3.9 If you do not maintain regular payments we will suspend any action and payments on your You remain responsible for continuing to pay any secured loans, mortgages, or Hire Purchase agreements and all household bills (including insurances).
4 Our Responsibilities
4.1 We will review your finances, covering your income, expenditure, debts and assets. These must include all debts secured on property or goods, which we will take into consideration but cannot negotiate reduced payments on. We will calculate your disposable income based on reasonable living expenses.
4.2 In consultation with you we will produce a Debt Management Programme by which you can pay off your Creditors out of your disposable income at rates you can afford. The Debt Management Programme will let you make monthly payments to us and will take account of your Creditors and of our Fees. It will not take account of any matters you have not told us about in accordance with section 3. It will also take account of the differing requirements of your different Creditors, if there is more than one.
4.3 We will negotiate with your Creditors and attempt to agree repayment terms with them of the amounts outstanding. In doing so we shall use the Debt Management Programme and we shall ensure that the periodic payments that we agree with your Creditors on your behalf do not exceed your disposable income (less our fee) as calculated by us, for the same period.
4.4 We shall attempt to agree with your Creditors, where appropriate, that they freeze or reduce their interest charges and that they suspend or withdraw enforcement proceedings issued in connection with your agreements with them. In rare instances County Count proceedings may still be actioned against you. In these cases we will assist in completion of all relevant paperwork as required. We can not guarantee to stop legal action by your creditors.
4.5 We shall make payment to your Creditors in accordance with the Debt Management Programme.
4.6 The payment made to your Creditors will be reflected on the statements you will receive from them. A full breakdown of all payments we have made can be obtained on request. On all Creditors accepting the offers of repayment we will issue you with a breakdown of these. In addition we will issue monthly statements showing all payments and receipts of your account.
4.7 Should your circumstances or any other relevant information change during the Period, we shall, in consultation with you and your creditors review the Debt Management Programme and if necessary shall make changes to it in agreement with you and any Creditors concerned.
4.8 From time to time your Creditors will request an up date of your financial situation. We will contact you to review your current financial circumstances and update your Debt Management Programme accordingly. To aid this process we request that payslips are regularly forwarded to us for review.
4.9 All payments to us will be made into our Clark Richards Limited Client Account. This account is separate to our own business accounts and funds held for distribution to your Creditors will be retained for that purpose only. No interest will be payable to you on funds that we hold. At times funds held for distribution to your Creditors will be classed as clients monies.
4.10 During the negotiation process some Creditors may continue to charge interest and other recovery charges. We cannot always prevent these charges being levied. These will however be paid off as part of your Debt Management Programme.
4.11 We can only provide advice on the services that we offer.
4.12 The company takes any complaint regarding its practices very seriously. Any complaints can be sent in writing to the Directors of the company and shall be dealt by them with personally. The directors will return correspondence within 14 days.
5 How we will be paid
5.1 Unless we agree otherwise with you we will take from each monthly payment under the debt management programme a fee equal to 14.9% of the periodic payment under the debt management programme. Subject to a minimum of £30 and a maximum of £90. If in accordance with our records you have conducted your debt management programme satisfactorily we may, at our discretion, waiver the last 6 months management fee.
5.2 Because most of our work will be done at the start of the Period, we will charge an initial fee based on your programme payment. The initial fee will not exceed the equivalent of 2 months’ payments to your Debt Management Programme. The fee will be collected as follows; 100% of the first payment and 100% of the second payment. NO further administration charges will be applied to the initial fee.
5.3 If this agreement is ended in accordance with section 6, we will return any undistributed funds after having deducted the above fees and you will not Have to pay us any more money. This will be made within 30 days of receiving written confirmation in order to allow us time to process all receipts and payments to your account.
5.4 In the case of weekly payments, 4 times the weekly payment will equate to one month’s payment.
6 Termination of Agreement
6.1 If for any reason you wish to cancel, we offer a 7 day cooling-off period from the date we receive your first payment, in which we offer a full refund of any fees which we have taken.
6.2 After the 7 day cooling-off period you may end this agreement by giving us four weeks’ notice in writing.
6.3 We may end this agreement by giving you four weeks notice in writing if any one of the following things happen: 1) You breach this agreement and do not remedy the breach within 7 days of your bringing the breach to your attention; 2) A bankruptcy petition is issued against you; 3) You enter into an Individual Voluntary Agreement/Trust Deed; 4) Where the information provided to us is knowingly incorrect. 5) The information provided by you at the time of acquiring a loan(hp agreement, credit cards or any other form of credit) is deemed incorrect or fraudulent by any creditor, or 6) If we are affected by Force Majeure.
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