{"id":1025,"date":"2019-12-30T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnbonds.com\/uk\/news\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T11:54:15","slug":"credit-card-lending-to-uk-individuals-hit-a-record-54-16-billion-last-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbonds.com\/uk\/2019\/12\/30\/credit-card-lending-to-uk-individuals-hit-a-record-54-16-billion-last-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Card Lending to UK Individuals Hit a Record \u00a354.16 Billion Last Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"
According to data gathered by LearnBonds.com, credit card lending to individuals in the United Kingdom (UK) reached \u00a354.16 billion in Q3 2019. This represents the 13th consecutive quarter with growth in the gross lending value on credit cards to individuals in the UK.<\/p>\n
Credit card lending in the UK economy is growing for individuals. Since the second quarter of 2016, the lending value on credit cards to individuals in the UK has been growing without stopping. In the last quarter, it grew by just 0.018% compared to the second quarter of 2019.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the current year, the lending value to individuals in the United Kingdom was \u20ac53.31 billion meaning that throughout the year it has already expanded by 1.594%. It is also possible to see that the expansion of this market has almost paused.<\/p>\n
It will be certainly important to understand how this will be affecting the UK economy considering credit is an important part of it. The European economy has been slowing down and uncertainty about Brexit has also affected the evolution of the UK market.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, since the first quarter of 2014, the initial period in which data was being collected, the loans<\/a> to individuals in the market have already expanded 38.05% from \u00a339.23 billion to the current \u00a354.16 billion. 2015 was a very important year considering that it was the time in which the market experienced the largest changes. From the last quarter of 2014 to the first quarter of 2015, lending to individuals grew by 8.79% from \u20ac39.35 billion to \u20ac42.81 billion.<\/p>\n