United Kingdom is first European consumer credit market - Last November, the French consumer credit specialist, Sofinco, published a consumer credit market study in Europe. The study examined the market up to the end of 2006 in 24 European countries (the 13 eurozone countries and United Kingdom, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia and Bulgaria). The main results are as follows: 1) the eurozone accounts for €679bn, 64% of the European total...