Annual Report and Accounts

27 November 2020

Morses Club PLC

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of General Meeting

Morses Club PLC ("Morses Club" or "the Company"), an established provider of non-standard financial services, advises that it has posted the following documents onto its website:

1.    Annual Report & Accounts for the year ending 29 February 2020

2.    Notice of a General Meeting on 7 January 2021 to receive the Annual Report and related matters

These documents are now available online at: https://morsesclubplc.com/investors/key-corporate-documents.   

Hard copies of these documents are due to be printed and should be received during week ending 11 December by shareholders who have specifically requested that hard copies are posted to them.

Anyone who would like to request a hard copy of the documents once they have been printed should e-mail: investors@morsesclubplc.com.

The Company's Annual General Meeting took place on 22 September 2020.

The General Meeting will take place at 9.30am on Thursday 7 January 2021. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the government's guidance on social distancing, shareholders are not permitted to attend the General Meeting. Shareholders can however submit a proxy vote online at www.signalshares.com or through CREST.

Shareholders are able to submit questions ahead of the General Meeting, which the Company will endeavour to answer via e-mail or on its website. Shareholders wishing to submit questions should e-mail: investors@morsesclubplc.com 

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Notes to Editors

About Morses Club

Morses Club is an established provider of non-standard financial services in the UK. The Group consists of Morses Club, the UK's second largest home collected credit ("HCC") provider, and Shelby Finance Limited, Morses Club's digital division, which operates under two online brands, Dot Dot Loans, an online lending provider, and U Account, which offers online e-money current accounts. The Group's growing digital capabilities and scalable, highly invested IT platform has enabled Morses Club to deliver an increasingly broad range of financial products and services to the non-standard credit market.

UK HCC is considered to be a specialised segment of the broader UK non-standard credit market. UK HCC loans are typically small, unsecured cash loans delivered directly to customers' homes. Repayments are collected in person during weekly follow-up visits to customers' homes. UK HCC is considered to be stable and well-established, with approximately 1.6 million¹ people using the services of UK HCC lenders.

Morses Club's HCC division is the second largest UK Home Collected Credit (HCC) lender with 224,000 customers throughout the UK. The majority of the Company's customers are repeat borrowers and the HCC division enjoys consistently high customer satisfaction scores of 97%². In 2016, the Morses Club Card, a cashless lending product, was introduced and in 2019 the Company introduced an online customer portal for its HCC customers, which now has over 109,000 registered customers.

The Group's growing digital division, Shelby Finance, operates under two online brands. Dot Dot Loans provides online instalment loans of up to 48 months to 37,000 active customers. U Account is a leading digital current account provider offering an alternative to traditional banking by providing a fully functional agency banking service. U Account currently has c. 18,000 customers.

Morses Club listed on AIM in May 2016.

About the UK non-standard credit market

The UK non-standard credit market, of which UK HCC is a subset, consists of both secured and unsecured lending and is estimated to comprise around 10 million consumers³ and total loan receivables of £10.7bn⁴.

Non-standard credit is the provision of secured and unsecured credit to consumers other than through mainstream lenders. Lenders providing non-standard credit principally lend on an unsecured basis and the market is characterised by high frequency borrowing. Approximately 2 million people move annually between standard and non-standard markets⁴.

Since February 2014, unsecured personal lending has grown from £161 billion to £216 billion in February 2019⁵.

^{1 High Cost Credit Review ANNEX 1 - July 2017
2 Independent Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted by Mustard
3 FCA High Cost Credit Review Technical Annex 1: CRA data analysis of UK personal debt - July 2017
4 Apex Insight - Non-Prime Consumer Credit: UK Market Insight Report - September 2019
5 Table A5.2, Bank of England Money and Credit Bank stats February 2019}

^{Review ANNEX 1 - July 2017}