Personal Loan Fees Explained: How Cockle Finance Helps You Save
Are You Paying Too Much in Loan Fees? Here’s How to Avoid Them When you’re considering a personal loan, the last thing you want is...
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Open Banking Explained: A Smarter Way to Apply for Loans
When you apply for a loan, it can be frustrating to feel judged solely on your past. Traditional credit checks often don’t give lenders the...
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How to Get a Loan When No One Will Approve You
Being turned down for a loan can feel frustrating, especially if it keeps happening. Whether you're applying for an emergency expense or trying to get...
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How to Choose the Best Personal Lender
When it comes to borrowing money, choosing the right lender is just as important as understanding your loan terms. A trustworthy personal lender can make...
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How to Pay Off Your Loan Faster
Paying off a loan can feel like a long road, but it doesn’t have to be. Whether you’ve taken out a personal loan, a car...
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How to Establish a Credit Score
If you’ve never borrowed money before, you might be surprised to find that having no credit history can be just as limiting as having bad...
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Are No Credit Check Loans Legal?
When it comes to “no credit check loans,” the term can be more confusing than helpful. If you’ve ever wondered whether these loans are legal...
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Will a Bank Give You a Loan If You Don’t Have Credit?
Let’s start with the honest answer: no, a traditional bank won’t give you a loan if you don’t have a credit history. That’s not a...
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Top Tips on Applying for a Personal Loan
At Cockle Finance, we understand that life can throw a curveball now and then. Whether you’re planning some home improvements, consolidating your debts, or covering...
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The Benefits of Personal Loans
When used sensibly, a personal loan can be a helpful financial tool. Whether you’re looking to tidy up your finances, fund a big life event,...
Read More How to Get Quick Loans When You Need Them Most
Life has a way of throwing surprises at us—sometimes exciting but sometimes not-so-good. Whether it's a sudden car breakdown, a big upcoming event such as...
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Credit Broker vs. Direct Lender: What’s the Difference, and How Can Cockle Finance Offer the Best of Both?
Imagine this: your car breaks down unexpectedly, and the repair bill comes to £500. You need the money quickly but aren’t sure where to start....
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How to Get Loans with Bad Credit History
A good credit history can feel like an obstacle in your financial journey, especially when you need a loan. However, the good news is that...
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Smart Tips for a Financially Merry Festive Season
The Christmas season is a time for celebration, joy, and giving. However, it can also strain finances, with pressure to buy gifts, attend gatherings, and...
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Understanding No Credit Check Loans
Personal finance can be daunting, particularly for those with no or poor credit histories. A no-credit-check loan offers a solution to individuals who need help...
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Everything You Need to Know About Different Types of Loans
In today's financial landscape, there are various types of loans available to suit different needs and circumstances. Whether you're looking to fund a major purchase,...
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Are You Owed Compensation?
Exploring Your Rights In today's world, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of their rights when it comes to compensation for various grievances. Whether it's a...
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Cockle Finance partners with Plaid to use Open Banking for Income Verification and Affordability Assessments
Cockle Finance, has recently announced a ground-breaking partnership with Plaid, a leading open banking platform. This partnership will allow Cockle Finance to leverage Plaid's open...
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Doorstep Loans vs Traditional Bank Loans: What’s Best?
In the world of personal finance, understanding the different types of loans available can help you make informed decisions that best suit your financial situation....
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Why choose Cockle Finance for Loans like Morses & Provident?
Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of financial services, finding a reliable and trustworthy loan provider is crucial. If you've been exploring options for loans similar...
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Cockle Finance’s Benefits Calculator
How Cockle Finance’s Benefits Calculator Can Help You In today’s unpredictable world, financial stability can seem hard to achieve. Here at Cockle Finance we offer...
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Smart Saving Hacks: Easy Ways to Grow Your Wealth
As a millennial, building wealth and achieving financial stability may seem like a daunting task. However, with the right strategies and smart saving hacks, you...
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Finding Loan Options When You’re Unemployed
Unemployment can be a stressful time, especially when financial obligations persist. Getting a loan might seem like a daunting task when you’re out of work,...
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How To Improve Your Credit Score
Your credit score is a crucial factor that affects your ability to secure loans, credit cards, and even rental agreements. A higher credit score can...
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Loan Options for Individuals with a CCJ
A County Court Judgment (CCJ) can make it challenging for individuals to access traditional financial services, such as loans, credit cards, and even bank accounts....
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Helping the People of Essex to Access Credit for Over 50 Years
At Cockle Finance, we have been helping people throughout the county of Essex to access the credit they need for over fifty years. From our...
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How to Get a Loan If You Have a Poor Credit Rating
Poor credit ratings come about for many reasons. The first thing to know is that credit rating firms keep a score of every individual so...
Read MoreWhen is the Best Time to Start Saving Money?
When it comes to saving money, there is no better time to start than right now. A lot of people make the mistake of putting...
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How To Save Money At Christmas
We can all agree that Christmas is an expensive time of year. With a tonne of gifts to buy and an entire dinner to cook...
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Why Should You Consider a Doorstep Loan?
At Cockle Finance, we specialise in doorstep loans. If you’re in Romford or the surrounding areas and you are in need of some financial help,...
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Our Top Tips for Saving Money
It’s safe to say that saving money can be difficult, regardless of how much you earn and how much you need to save. You probably...
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How to Save Money on Large Purchases
It doesn’t matter what you are buying or how much it’s going to cost, everyone wants to save money on large purchases. Knowing how to...
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Easy Ways To Improve Your Money Management
Let’s face it, some people are naturally great at money management. They are frugal, they are safe and they are good at saving. However, most...
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How to Have a Cheap and Cheerful Summer
We can all agree that summertime can be expensive. It doesn’t matter whether you are hoping to book a family holiday abroad somewhere hot or...
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How To Save Money On Your Phone Bill
There’s nothing cheap about paying for a mobile phone every month, but it’s something that most of us do. Without a mobile phone, a lot...
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When is the Best Time to Start Saving Money?
When it comes to saving money, there is no better time to start than right now. A lot of people make the mistake of putting...
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What makes Cockle Finance different to Wonga?
We’ve all seen the news this week, Payday lender Wonga have gone into administration meaning over 500 people could lose their jobs. Many people think...
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How do Doorstep Loans Work?
If you need to borrow money, there are many different options available to you. From bank loans, to credit cards, payday loans to guarantor loans,...
Read MoreCockle Finance announce B4B Payments as Prepaid Card provider
We’re delighted to announce that We’ve teamed up with B4B Payments as our Prepaid Card Provider. Our brand new product the Cockle Finance Card is...
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Cutting Holiday Prices
While Easter seems but a distant memory now and we’ve had a taste of summer; our thoughts soon turn to warmer climates and the possibility...
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Half Term Bargains
Best Half-Term Activities Blink and half-term is upon us again, and for those with children and grandchildren trying to find some way to keep them...
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Great locations to spend your Valentine’s Day
It’s that time of year again; cupids and hearts are everywhere, love is in the air and you’re looking to treat someone special to make...
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How holiday insurance can save you money in the long run
When you are booking a holiday, you will at some point create a to-do list, mentally or physically, of all the little jobs and tasks...
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Give your finances a winter overhaul in time for Christmas
We know that it might be the last thing that you want to hear. But it won’t be long before Christmas is here. This means...
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How to save for a deposit for a house
Whilst renting is proving very popular with modern families, there are still plenty of those that long to own their own house. Not only is...
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How to do ‘Back To School’ on a budget
It is a fact of life that kids need things for school. Uniform, PE kit, lunchboxes, stationary, the list can get bigger over time. This...
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Renting Out Your Home On Airbnb
You may not think that the UK is a desirable place for people to come and visit for a holiday from overseas, but you would...
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Fun summer activities that don’t cost the earth
Fun Summer Activities that don't cost the earth The time is upon us that many parents dread. The summer holidays. Of course it is a...
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Green Fingers without the expense!
As Spring is really taking a hold, the time has come to think about your garden and outdoor space. Gardening can be really worthwhile, not...
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Spring clean your home on a budget
With the sun starting to become a more regular visit and the flowers starting to bloom, we all know that Spring is on the way....
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Ways To Keep Your Car Costs Down
Always negotiate your insurance renewal quote We’ve all been there, when your car insurance is up for renewal, you get the quote through and its...
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Advantages of a Doorstep Loan
There are so many financial products available to people who need to borrow money, especially when needing something fast and urgently, so it can be...
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Need to take out a small personal loan? – All the Jargon explained!
If you’ve decided that you need to take out a small personal loan there are many things that you first need to consider as discussed...
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Personal Loans – Things To Consider Before You Borrow
These things always seem to happen at once too! If this has happened to you and you’ve made the decision that you’re going to need...
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Doorstep Loans Explained (aka Home Collected Credit)
The process of taking out a Doorstep Loan (Sometimes known as Home Collected Credit) is one of the oldest money lending methods in existence. Once...
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