Tell us why you want a loan, how much you want to borrow and for how long
Provide details about yourself
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Get your loan and carry on with your life
At Lifestyle, we’ve done our best to make our online application process as simple and transparent as possible. If you do have any questions when making your application, our customer services team will be available to help using online chat from 9am to 6pm Monday - Friday.
Open banking is a system that has been developed to allow you to authorise 3rd parties read only access to your bank statements. We use open banking data to make fairer lending decisons. By using open banking data, we may be able to offer you affordable lending when others can't. We work with consents.online - one of the leading Account Information Service Provider (AISPs). They are authorised by the Banks and the FCA to access your data, with your permission.
Lifestyle loans offer loans for people who may have had a few blemishes on their credit file and therefore can’t get the cheapest loans in the market, but who have a stable income of over £1000 and who we judge can afford the monthly repayments.
The simple answer is yes, but the reality is sadly a little more complicated. Like all lenders we want to lend to you if we are confident that you’ll repay your loan. Marks on your credit file can have an impact for a long time and in most instances we aren’t too worried if you had issues a year ago or more. However, if you have had lots of missed payments, returned direct debits or have already taken lots of credit in the very recent past, we’re unlikely to be able to lend to you.
Yes, the only mainstream banks of any scale who do not offer open banking through consents.online are Metro Bank and Co-op bank. If you bank with any of these providers, we will not be able to provide you with a loan.
As a final step to ensure that the loan is right for you, one of our staff will speak to you through online chat before we authorise the funds being sent to your account.
We want to help as many people as we can to meet their borrowing needs, however we will not lend to customers who: