International Personal Finance

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International Personal Finance
Company type Public
LSE:  IPF
Industry Finance
Founded1997
Headquarters Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
Key people
Stuart Sinclair, Chairman
Gerard Ryan, Chief Executive Officer
Gary Thompson, Chief Financial Officer
RevenueIncrease2.svg £767.8 million (2023) [1]
Increase2.svg £83.9 million (2023) [1]
Decrease2.svg £48.0 million (2023) [1]
Number of employees
5,500 (2022) [1]
Website www.ipfin.co.uk

International Personal Finance is a British-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.

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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:

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References

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