About Fairpoint

At Fairpoint we develop and operate consumer financial services businesses.
We select markets or opportunities which show certain characteristics:

  • Growing and sustainable consumer demand.
  • Caused by deep-rooted market, regulatory or economic factors.
  • Where innovation and effective channel execution can give sustainable differentiation.

As such our customers tend to be going through a period of life to which the mass financial services market is unable to provide a solution.

We make it our business to understand our customers in depth, to help them through their short term circumstances, and to continue that relationship, if they so choose, into the future. The solutions offered range from basic advice, such as simply destroying credit cards and curbing unnecessary expenditure, to the following solutions:

  • consolidation loan
  • re-mortgage
  • informal arrangement
  • individual voluntary arrangement (IVA)
  • bankruptcy

Fairpoint always seeks (unlike many of its competitors who sell specific products) to systematically and impartially deliver the best advice to the consumer and recommend them the most appropriate solution.

Over the last few years we have been very much focused on the over-indebted market in the UK. Debt Free Direct has pioneered the debt advice and solutions industry and is a clear leader in the provision of IVAs, while Clear Start's impartial approach has appealed to a new segment of consumers, and has helped to take the relationships with the banks into a new era.

Our main objectives are to:

  • introduce to our existing customer base a further range of 'most wanted' financial products and solutions;
  • continue to increase our market share, in particular as the market goes through a phase of consolidation;
  • address the new growth market of cases where customers are over-extended on debt that is secured against their property.

In the meantime we will continue to explore opportunities in markets that fit our investment criteria.

Fairpoint is based in Chorley, Lancashire, and was admitted to AIM in December 2002.