Solicitors + Debt Management: The Challenge
As solicitor, 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 Solicitors with Debt Management
Convert client and third-party bank statements to searchable, sortable Excel spreadsheets for faster case analysis and evidence preparation. For debt management specifically, BankScan AI extracts Net income from all sources, essential living costs (housing, utilities, food, t automatically.
How Solicitors Handle Debt Management
When preparing bank statements for debt management, solicitors need to Solicitors receive bank statements as part of financial disclosure in family, fraud, or commercial litigation. They review statements to trace assets,. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: financial disclosure, Form E, asset tracing, client account reconciliation.
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 solicitors 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 Solicitors — Debt Management
- Built for Solicitors — Saves 1-2 hours per case on financial disclosure analysis, with complex matrimonial cases saving up to 4 hours per set of statements
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Clio, LEAP Legal Software, PracticeEvolve
- 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: Solicitors + Debt Management
When solicitors prepare bank statements for debt management, specific compliance requirements apply.
- SRA Accounts Rules require solicitors to reconcile client account bank statements within 5 weeks of the statement date. Failure to comply can result in regulatory action including fines or intervention. Anti-money laundering checks under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 also require scrutiny of client bank transactions.
- Legal basis: Insolvency Act 1986 Part VIII (Individual Voluntary Arrangements); FCA CONC 8 (debt counselling, debt adjusting, and debt administration)
Debt Management — Built for Solicitors
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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