Barratt Smith Brown are excited to announce a new partnership with Inter Credit Group. The new reciprocal agreement will enable our clients to access high quality debt recovery solutions within China. In return Barratt Smith Brown will service all UK debt recovery for Inter Credit Group’s client base.
Based in Qingdao, in Shandong, @Inter Credit Group are one of China’s leading providers of domestic and international debt collection services. One of the first companies that obtained the ISO9001 Quality Management System Certification and ISO27001 Information Security System Certification in China, they pride themselves on providing amicable collection solutions to their client base of domestic and multinational businesses.
Ashley Barratt, CEO of Barratt Smith Brown stated “We are delighted to announce this new partnership with Inter Credit Group. Following our successful FCA application in April of this year we have been looking for ways to further extend our service offering. This partnership ensures we can offer our clients a truly global debt collection solution and is another step in our aggressive growth plans for Barratt Smith Brown.”
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Ashley Barratt – CEO Barratt Smith Brown
Leicester based Barratt Smith Brown, has established a strong reputation for providing market-leading debt collection support to the utilities sector. Leveraging CEO Ashley Barratt’s 15 years of experience at Centrica, they have not only provided outsourced support to key industry players such as Business Stream, Bristol Energy and Shell, but have taken a lead role in managing collections for UK energy administration collections – handing over 75% of energy administration cases since 2018. Their expertise in energy administrations led to their key role in helping The Citizen’s Advice Bureau develop their Supplier of Last Resort – Good Practice Guide and unique systems and processes to optimise insolvency recoveries.
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