International Personal Finance
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| LSE: IPF | |
| Industry | Finance |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK |
Key people | Stuart Sinclair, Chairman Gerard Ryan, Chief Executive Officer Gary Thompson, Chief Financial Officer |
| Revenue |  £767.8 million (2023)[1] |
| £83.9 million (2023)[1] | |
 £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.
History
[edit]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
[edit]The company has operations organised as follows:
- Poland – home credit and digital
- Hungary – 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Annual Results 2023". International Personal Finance. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ "Building a better world". International Personal Finance Corporate2022. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "Approval of Warsaw Stock Exchange Delisting". tools.eurolandir.com. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "Provident Financial details split". Reuters. 7 June 2007. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ "London Stock Exchange | London Stock Exchange". www.londonstockexchange.com. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "International Personal Finance buys Russian bank for 2.75 mln stg cash". LSE. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Closure of Russian market pilot". tools.eurolandir.com. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ "Lender IPF says to buy MCB Finance Group". Reuters. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2018.