Debt Awareness Week: Navigating the Complexities of Debt to Achieve Financial Well-being
Debt challenges surpass mere financial implications, often impacting individuals’ mental health and straining interpersonal relationships. While certain events like job loss can precipitate financial strain, the ongoing cost-of-living crisis has exacerbated the prevalence of debt.
Recent data from StepChange Debt Charity reveals that 23% of their clients attribute their financial difficulties to the escalating cost of living. Similarly, YouGov research commissioned by charity Christians Against Poverty underscores this trend, with 9% of UK adults resorting to credit in the last six months to meet monthly expenses.
Empowering Financial Institutions with Effective Debt Management Solutions
As we observe the 10th anniversary of Debt Awareness Week, it aims to increase awareness of problem debt and available solutions out there to help tackle the issue. This week serves as a poignant reminder for lenders, creditors, and financial institutions to have the appropriate debt management solutions to aid those facing financial distress.
Aryza: Innovating for Consumer Financial Well-being
At Aryza, we have 20 years’ experience working with the UK debt and insolvency market and therefore understand the impact of debt on consumers as well as the complex regulatory framework surrounding this industry, hence our mission is to build software that addresses and manages both.
Helping our customers respond to the pandemic, cost of living squeeze and general volatility in their markets is where we concentrate our product development. We are champions of consumer financial well-being, and this is reflected in our partnerships with the Centre for Social Justice and the Vulnerability Registration Service.
The Significance of Debt Management Software
Debt can have a significant impact on mental health and quality of life, and at Aryza we focus on building debt management tools to make the journey back from debt a smoother and more efficient one. Our platforms optimise the triaging of a consumer’s specific debt issues so that the best possible advice is administered and the time from enquiry-to-application-to-approval is minimised, removing stress and providing certainty as quickly as possible.
The consumer’s journey can include intuitive self-service journeys that integrate with third-party data to validate the consumer’s information at all stages. Of course, the platforms always allow the consumer to reach out to debt advice agents for help & support when needed. This approach reduces the discomfort and misplaced shame that consumers may feel when discussing their situation and allows overworked debt support agencies to help more people to solve their problems.
Once a debt solution process is underway, our software ensures that all stakeholders, including the consumer and their creditors, are fully engaged and up to date.
Empowering Financial Institutions with Aryza Solutions
In addressing the intricate challenges of managing customer debts, Aryza offers comprehensive solutions tailored for financial institutions to help them live up to their increasing regulatory responsibility to consumers that are struggling, or are likely to struggle in the short term, with their debt repayments.
We can automate the collation of information, offering clients access to a tool that gathers personal and financial information to provide an accurate view of affordability and vulnerability. It suggests money-saving areas based on the Standard Financial Statement guidelines (SFS) and provides customers with the best course of action for their individual scenario.
Building on years of experience in the lending, debt advice and insolvency sectors, we have created tools that adapt to regional requirements and local legislation, embrace the challenges of managing customers from acquisition and onboarding, through data collection, advice and management and recording of financial transactions. They offer a secure, compliant, and reliable case management platform, providing consumers with an intuitive journey to receive the right debt advice.
Enabling Financial Resilience
The imperative for financial institutions to adopt appropriate debt management solutions cannot be overstated. As evidenced by the prevalence of debt-related challenges and the profound impact on individuals’ lives, it is essential for these institutions to proactively address financial distress.
By leveraging innovative tools, financial institutions can not only streamline their operations but, more importantly, play a pivotal role in empowering individuals to navigate their journey out of debt towards financial well-being.
Interested in finding out more? Please contact Elliott Green, Head of UK, Legal & Insolvency at [email protected] for further information.