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Credicorp ESG UK: our sustainability picture, honestly
ESG reporting standards were built for FTSE-100 firms. As a focused UK lender within the CM Beyer group we still have an ESG footprint and an ESG opportunity. Here is what we actually do across environment, social, and governance — without the marketing gloss.
Many ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting standards — TCFD, SECR, the upcoming UK SDS — are calibrated to firm sizes above where Credicorp currently reports. We are a focused UK business lender within the CM Beyer group, and we treat our ESG responsibilities as a matter of governance discipline rather than disclosure obligation. This article is the honest description of where we are on each of the three pillars, what we are doing, and — importantly — what we are not yet doing.
Environment: a lean operating footprint, deliberately
Credicorp is a remote-first operation. We have no large office to heat, no daily commute for most of the team, and no on-premise data centre to power. Every customer document is delivered electronically; we do not post paper agreements unless a customer requests a posted large-print copy under our accessibility policy. Our hosting infrastructure is UK-based and we choose providers that publish a credible commitment to renewable-energy procurement. The marginal energy cost of running our platform — website, customer portal and collections automation — across an average month is modest, but it is not zero, and we treat it accordingly.
What we don't claim: we are not net-zero today. The supply chain (Stripe, our email provider, our cloud host) all carry their own emissions footprint that we count as ours-by-proxy. We do not yet publish a Scope-1/2/3 emissions estimate, because we will not manufacture credibility by publishing numbers we cannot yet stand behind. As our measurement matures, the commitment is to publish.
Social: vulnerability, accessibility, fair treatment
The 'S' in ESG is where a lender's most direct impact sits. Our day-to-day social commitments are:
- Accessibility: Simple View (plainer wording + single-column layout + more icons), Large Print (PDF + on-screen), High Contrast. Documents are available in Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Scots alongside English. The application form is reachable on mobile, tablet and desktop with keyboard-only operation.
- Fair treatment of vulnerable communities: we do not lend in any borough or postcode based on a discriminatory list. Affordability is decided on the company's affordability, not on the director's protected characteristics.
- A modern slavery statement published voluntarily, ahead of any statutory threshold, with a real annual review.
Governance: independence, transparency, audit
Governance is where a focused lender can hold a real advantage over larger institutions, and we use it. Our position:
- Group clarity, transparently registered. Credicorp Limited is part of the CM Beyer group, with its beneficial ownership named on the Companies House register. There is no opaque holding structure and no offshore wrapping. The lender is the firm you are dealing with, and the wider group structure is published openly.
- Independence from venture-capital pressure. We have no quarterly earnings target to meet, no growth-at-all-costs pressure from an investor base, and no exit timeline that would distort lending standards. The product and the cap exist because they are the right standards, not because they are commercially optimal.
- Annual published transparency report covering: total amount lent, default rate, complaints upheld, forbearance approval rate, vulnerability-flagged customers as a share of the book, and audit findings from the internal compliance review. The first edition of this report ships with the 2026 annual update.
- Operational audit. The collections, decisioning, complaints, and vulnerability handling processes carry internal-audit triggers and an annual external review by an independent compliance consultancy.
What we are working on
The picture above describes today. The trajectory we are committed to: publishing a real emissions estimate as our measurement matures; adopting the simplified UK SDS disclosure once the regime is published in final form and proportionate guidance exists; expanding the Welsh / Gaelic / Scots translation coverage from chrome + summary to full agreement texts (subject to solicitor sign-off on the binding translations). The Responsible Lending policy is the canonical place to follow our updates on each of these.
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