Company type | Public |
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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 |
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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]
The company has operations organised as follows:
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