Financial Advisors (IFAs) + Debt Management: The Challenge
As financial advisor, preparing bank statements for debt management is a common but time-consuming task. Debt management advisors and IVA supervisors need detailed analysis of a debtor's bank statements to assess income, essential spending, and disposable income.
How BankScan AI Helps Financial Advisors (IFAs) with Debt Management
Convert client bank statements to Excel for quick financial analysis, cashflow modelling, and wealth planning presentations. For debt management specifically, BankScan AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, t automatically.
How Financial Advisors (IFAs) Handle Debt Management
When preparing bank statements for debt management, financial advisors (ifas) need to IFAs request bank statements during fact-find meetings to assess client income, expenditure patterns, existing commitments, and savings capacity. They. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: fact-find, suitability report, attitude to risk, capacity for loss.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 3-6 months of recent statements to establish a reliable income and expenditure pattern for the proposal of statements for debt management.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing — formatted for financial advisors (ifas) workflows.
Complete your debt management work
Download Excel files ready for debt management. Income and expenditure categorised according to the Standard Financial Statement (SFS) format used across the UK debt advice sector
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Financial Advisors (IFAs) — Debt Management
- Built for Financial Advisors (IFAs) — Saves 30-45 minutes per client fact-find on income and expenditure analysis, with annual reviews completed 20-30 minutes faster per client
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Intelliflo, CashCalc, Excel
- Built for Debt Management — Convert bank statements to Excel to quickly categorise income and expenditure, calculate disposable income, and prepare debt management or IVA proposals.
- Key data extracted — Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, transport), non-essential spending to reduce, existing debt repayments, disposable income calculation
Compliance: Financial Advisors (IFAs) + Debt Management
When financial advisors (ifas) prepare bank statements for debt management, specific compliance requirements apply.
- FCA rules require IFAs to conduct thorough fact-finds and demonstrate suitability of advice. Bank statements form part of the evidence base for suitability reports. Consumer Duty obligations require advisors to demonstrate they understand client financial circumstances. Records must be retained for the FCA's required period.
- Legal basis: Insolvency Act 1986 Part VIII (Individual Voluntary Arrangements); FCA CONC 8 (debt counselling, debt adjusting, and debt administration)
Debt Management — Built for Financial Advisors (IFAs)
IVA proposals must be sent to creditors within 14 days of the nominee's report; debt management plans need quick setup to stop creditor action and interest accrual
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