27th Apr 2017 15:23
27 April 2017
Morses Club PLC
Director/PDMR Shareholding
Morses Club PLC ("Morses Club" or "the Company"), the UK's second largest home collected credit ("HCC") lender, announces that on 27 April 2017 Sir Nigel Knowles, Senior Independent Director of Morses Club, acquired 12,000 ordinary shares of 1 pence at a price of 134.25p per share.
Following this transaction, Sir Nigel Knowles holds 35,148 ordinary shares which represents a total of 0.03% of the Company's issued share capital.
Enquiries:
Morses Club PLCPaul Smith, Chief Executive OfficerAndy Thomson, Chief Financial Officer | Tel: +44 (0) 330 045 0719 |
Numis Securities Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker)Andrew HollowayCharlie Farquhar Paul Gillam
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7260 1000 |
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Joint Broker) Richard Gray Charles Leigh Pemberton
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7886 2500 |
CamarcoEd Gascoigne-PeesJennifer Renwick | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3757 4984 |
Notes to editors
About Morses Club
Morses Club is the second largest UK Home Collected Credit lender with 216,000 customers and 1,826 agents (as at 25 February 2017) across 98 locations throughout the UK.
The Company offers a range of loan products to its customers through its extensive agent network. The majority of the Company's borrowers are repeat customers and the Company enjoys consistently high customer satisfaction scores of 95 per cent or above.
The Company is using technology to broaden its offering and provide new products to ensure customers can access credit with the flexibility they require. In April 2016, its cashless lending product, the Morses Club Card, was introduced, enabling its customers to buy online as well as on the high street.
Morses Club successfully listed on AIM in May 2016.
About the UK non-standard credit market
The UK non-standard credit market, of which UK HCC is a subset, consists of both secured and unsecured lending and is estimated to comprise around 10 million consumers.
Non-standard credit is the provision of secured and unsecured credit to consumers other than through mainstream lenders. Lenders providing non-standard credit principally lend on an unsecured basis.
Since 2009, unsecured personal lending has grown from £161 billion to £244 billion in 2015.
UK Home Collected Credit
UK HCC is considered to be a specialised segment of the broader UK non-standard credit market. UK HCC loans are typically small, unsecured cash loans delivered via self-employed agents directly to customers' homes. Repayments are collected in person during weekly follow-up visits to customers' homes.
UK HCC is considered to be stable and well-established, with approximately 3 million people using the services of UK HCC lenders, of which 1.8 million people borrow regularly.
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