Company:International Personal Finance

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International Personal Finance
TypePublic
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IndustryFinance
Founded1997
HeadquartersLeeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Key people
Stuart Sinclair, Chairman
Gerard Ryan, Chief Executive Officer
Gary Thompson, Chief Financial Officer
RevenueIncrease £645.5 million (2022)[1]
Increase £77.4 million (2022)[1]
Increase £56.8 million (2022)[1]
Number of employees
5,500 (2022)[1]
Websitewww.ipfin.co.uk

International Personal Finance is a United Kingdom -based international financial services business providing home credit and digital consumer credit to 1.7 million customers in nine markets.[2] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE Small Cap Index. It took a secondary listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in March 2013 and later delisted in 2022.[3] It has a head office in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

History

The company was first established as a division of Provident Financial in 1997. It was demerged from Provident Financial in 2007[4] and listed on the London Stock Exchange on 16 July 2007.[5] It went on to acquire Maritime Commercial Bank of Kaliningrad in 2008,[6] before closing its pilot Russian operation in 2009.[7] IPF acquired digital loans company MCB Finance in 2015.[8]

Operations

The company has operations organised as follows:

  • Poland - home credit and digital
  • Hungary (:hu:Provident) - home credit
  • Romania - home credit
  • Czech Republic - home credit and digital
  • Mexico - home credit and digital
  • Australia - digital
  • Latvia - digital
  • Lithuania - digital
  • Estonia - digital

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Annual Report 2022". International Personal Finance. https://www.ipfin.co.uk/content/dam/ipf/corporate/documents/investors/annual-report-/2022/2022-Annual-Report.pdf.downloadasset.pdf. Retrieved 23 Jun 2023. 
  2. "Building a better world" (in en). https://www.ipfin.co.uk/building-a-better-world. 
  3. "Approval of Warsaw Stock Exchange Delisting". https://tools.eurolandir.com/tools/Pressreleases/GetPressRelease/?ID=4042492&lang=en-GB&companycode=uk-ipf&v=r2023. 
  4. "Provident Financial details split". Reuters. 7 June 2007. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-providentfinancial-demerger/provident-financial-details-split-idUKL0773341220070607. Retrieved 9 April 2016. 
  5. "London Stock Exchange | London Stock Exchange" (in en). https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/IPF/international-personal-finance-plc/about:blank. 
  6. "International Personal Finance buys Russian bank for 2.75 mln stg cash". LSE. 31 December 2007. http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareNews.asp?shareprice=IPF&ArticleCode=98cl3rh312ag83t&ArticleHeadline=International_Personal_Finance_buys_Russian_bank_for_275_mln_stg_cash. Retrieved 6 February 2018. 
  7. "Closure of Russian market pilot". https://tools.eurolandir.com/tools/Pressreleases/GetPressRelease/?ID=3204334&lang=en-GB&companycode=uk-ipf&v=r2023. 
  8. "Lender IPF says to buy MCB Finance Group". Reuters. 19 December 2014. https://www.reuters.com/article/international-personal-finance-brief/brief-lender-ipf-says-to-buy-mcb-finance-group-idUSASN0005X420141219. Retrieved 6 February 2018. 

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