Debt Talk: Financial exclusion & lending

Globally, Britain has a two-tier system: a thriving financial services sector on the one hand but millions of people who cannot access essential financial services on the other. Would the current Labour government make any difference to the millions of struggling residents excluded from the financial services market to help reduce such an exclusion? To navigate on the Debt Talk podcast on this month’s subject: ‘Financial Exclusion & lending’, with Ripon Ray, there are two panel members to share their experience and knowledge:

Fran Boait, Co-Executive Director of Positive Money, outlined the severity of financial exclusion due to branch closures, which not only impact low-income households but also marginalised communities, those who live in remote rural places, and small businesses. A fairer method need ...