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current item indicator  Papers published alongside Emerging Thinking

Home Credit Market Inquiry

Working Papers published alongside Emerging Thinking document

In publishing our working papers, we have removed from them some material which home credit lenders have told us is commercially sensitive. We have done so without prejudice to possible disclosure in the course of the inquiry, for example when we issue our provisional findings. Before we disclose any such material we shall have regard to the statutory considerations on disclosure of information in section 244 of the Act, which are summarised in our guidance (CC7). In particular, we shall decide which parts, if any, of currently excised material should be published because they are essential to an understanding of our findings.


1. Agents
2. Barriers to Entry and Expansion
3. Evolution of Size and Structure of the Home Credit Industry
4. The Consumer Credit (Early Settlement) Regulations 2004
5. Cost of Capital
6. Credit Scoring
7. Customer Turnover, Switching and Multi-sourcing
8. Pricing
9. Product Market Definition
10. Profitability of the Five Listed Home Credit Providers
11. Renewal Loans


Evidence published alongside Emerging Thinking document

1. Analysis of Questionnaire Responses from Providers of Mainstream Credit Products
2. Summary of Feedback from Home Credit Customers


Other documents published on 27 October 2005 (see Third Party Submissions)

1. Further Submission by the National Consumer Council
2. Further Submission by the Consumer Credit Association

 

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