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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

HSBC Life (UK) Limited pays suppliers in 14 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN 00088695 · Financial services · 7 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2025

14daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 16 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
2% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
0%
Reporting period
1 Jul 2025 – 31 Dec 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 28 Jan 2026

Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 16 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 7 reports

19 → 14 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

HSBC Life (UK) Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 14 days against stated terms of 30 days; 2% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 0% took 61 days or longer. Filed 28 Jan 2026.

The direction is faster: from 19 days in H1 2023 to 14 now — 5 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 80% of the 638 large companies reporting in financial services.

That is 7 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2022) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: Prompt Payment Code Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard terms are 30 days

Dispute resolution

Suppliers are asked to place their issue in writing to their HSBC main contact point. Business contact and Accounts Payable work with the supplier to resolve payment issue/dispute in accordance with internal investigation and escalation procedures.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 2025142%0%28 Jan 2026
H1 2025166%4%29 Jul 2025
H2 2024122%0%28 Jan 2025
H1 2024193%0%25 Jul 2024
H2 2023194%1%25 Jan 2024
H1 2023199%1%24 Jul 2023
H2 20222027%1%30 Jan 2023

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
8 May 1906
Registered office
2ND FLOOR, PRESTON, PR1 3JJ
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Quick answers · HSBC Life (UK) Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 5 days faster over the window (19 → 14 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 14; across their last 6 reports it ranged 12–19 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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