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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

Reforms aim to help make consumer credit rules ‘fit for digital age’

Changes are needed to give people clearer, more accessible information, and lenders flexibility to provide new and innovative products, UK Finance said (Joe Giddens/PA) - (PA Archive)

People who take out loans, credit cards or overdrafts are expected to benefit from clearer information under Government plans to make rules “fit for the digital age”.

Rather than working around rules designed for a world before smartphones and digital banking, businesses will operate under a regime that can adapt as the financial sector innovates, the Government said.

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