Fair Finance

People in need of emergency cash are better off with a payday loan than an unauthorised bank overdraft   Read the rest by Faisel Rahman of Fair Finance in The Guardian

Faisel Rahman, Fair Finance MD talks about why the UK needs microfinance at the Do Lectures

The fifth Spear’s Wealth Management Awards, described as ‘the Oscars of the private banking world’ (Evening Standard) awarded Fair Finance’s Managing Director & Founder Faisel Rahman with the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Featured in Spears WMS

Fair Finance and UK microfinance featured in The Economist

TED talk – this is an organization that invites people with ideas who think they can change the world to give talks on what they do. Faisel was invited to speak about Fair Finance. The talk is now online and lasts about 16min:

The basic account was introduced by banks almost a decade ago after coming under pressure from the Labour government to give financially excluded people access to banking services. It is a no-frills account without overdraft facilities that allows people to have their wages paid into a bank account and to set up direct debits to pay bills.   Read the rest by Faisel Rahman of Fair Finance in The Guardian

Billed as a ‘game-changing’ moment in social impact investment, last month’s £3m plus deal structured by social lender Fair Finance <http://www.fairfinance.org.uk> will allow it to help 100,000 financially excluded Londoners over the next five years with low interest microloans.  Read the rest by Mark Cheng

Wth the average cost of a funeral hitting £3,500 in London, people are getting themselves into needless debt just to see off a loved one, says Faisel Rahman.  Read the rest by Faisel Rahman of Fair Finance in The Guardian

The Canary Wharf offices of international law firm Clifford Chance are more used to playing host to the signing ceremonies of multi-billion pound mergers and capital raisings by Britain’s biggest companies. Read more By Harry Wilson of  The Financial Times

In raising money commercially, we have created a model that should allow the banks to lend to more organisations tackling financial exclusion  Read the rest by Faisel Rahman of Fair Finance in The Guardian