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Capital first
We acquire on a funded balance sheet. Sellers receive certainty of execution; consumers benefit from a stable, long-term owner of their account.
About BureauFix
Institutional discipline, brought to a Canadian receivables market that asked for it.
We exist because Canada's consumer credit and telecommunications issuers needed an acquisition counterparty that combined deep principal experience, institutional capital, and a serious commitment to consumer treatment. BureauFix is the platform built to be that counterparty.
Our story
A platform with a quarter-century of principal heritage.
BureauFix was founded to bring a specific kind of capability to Canada — the kind that comes from running, scaling and selling a regulated debt purchaser, then doing it again, this time with the lessons learned. Our principals have spent careers inside regulated credit and structured finance markets in the United Kingdom; we built BureauFix to translate that institutional posture into the Canadian context.
The opportunity in Canada is straightforward. Issuers in consumer credit and telecommunications need acquisition counterparties they can transact with confidently — with funded execution, predictable consumer treatment, and a long-term operating presence. Many of the buyers in market today don't meet that bar. BureauFix is built to meet it deliberately.
Heritage
A quarter-century of principal experience.
BureauFix is the next chapter for a leadership group with deep institutional credibility in regulated debt purchasing — heritage we've brought intentionally to the Canadian market.
1997
Lantern founded
Neil Petty founds Lantern Debt Recovery in the United Kingdom — entering the regulated UK debt purchase market as a principal acquirer.
2008–2014
Scale & FCA accreditation
Lantern scales to a market-defining position; becomes the first FCA-accredited debt purchaser in the UK high-cost short-term credit segment.
2017
$2bn+ & majority sale
Over $2 billion of distressed receivables transacted under Neil Petty's stewardship. Majority stake sold; strategic shareholding retained.
2024
BureauFix formed
BureauFix incorporated in Alberta as a dedicated Canadian receivables acquisition platform — UK institutional capital, founder-led principal team.
2026
Nationwide presence
Operational across every Canadian province through a network of licensed recovery partners, with active programmes across banking, telco and alternative credit.
Operating principles
What we hold ourselves to.
Five non-negotiables shape every decision — from the portfolios we acquire to the way our customers are treated.
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Disciplined diligence
Every acquisition is priced with portfolio-specific analytics. We say no often, but when we say yes, we close.
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Consumer dignity
Our treatment standards are calibrated for outcomes that work for the customer first, because anything else is bad business and worse practice.
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Regulatory posture
We operate exclusively through licensed Canadian recovery partners under continuous compliance oversight, with the expectation that our standards exceed the floor.
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Long horizon
We are building a multi-decade institutional presence in Canada, not a transaction. Our partner relationships reflect that.
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Quiet professionalism
Our work is best measured by the absence of noise — clean closes, consistent operations, and counterparties who come back.
Leadership
Our team.
BureauFix is led by an experienced, complementary leadership group spanning regulated debt purchasing, structured finance, capital markets, operations and finance — assembled deliberately to build an institutional acquisition platform in Canada.
PRINCIPAL · 01
Neil Petty
Founder & principal
Neil is one of the most experienced regulated debt purchasers in the United Kingdom. In 1997 he founded Lantern Debt Recovery, scaling it into a market-defining acquirer of distressed receivables — with over $2 billion in portfolios transacted under his stewardship — and the first FCA-accredited debt purchaser in the UK high-cost short-term credit segment.
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After selling his majority stake in 2017, Neil retained a strategic shareholding and turned to specialist principal lending, including Bloomsmith, a UK VAT-lending business. He continues to work alongside Jonny Towers as a co-principal of The Funding Globe.
At BureauFix he brings a quarter-century of institutional credibility, deep regulator dialogue and the operating discipline of a founder-led principal — the foundations the Canadian platform is built on.
PRINCIPAL · 02
Matt Miller
Principal & capital strategy
Matt spent more than 20 years in senior Banking and Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, leading and structuring fundraising programmes for blue-chip UK corporates. He has applied that capital-markets expertise as a principal investor across multiple sectors — acquiring businesses, sharpening management and engineering successful exits.
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Matt's introduction to debt purchase came when he engineered a substantial growth facility for Neil's UK platform. He now partners with Neil at BureauFix, focused on capital strategy, balance-sheet structuring and the institutional positioning of the platform inside the Canadian opportunity.
EXECUTIVE · 03
Jonny Towers
Chief Operating Officer
Jonny joined BureauFix in 2025 as Chief Operating Officer, with end-to-end responsibility for the firm's operational, technological and strategic functions. His remit is to translate a fast-scaling acquisition platform — over a million customer accounts and billions in face-value receivables — into a fully systemised, data-driven business.
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At BureauFix Jonny leads the design and implementation of the centralised CRM and analytics infrastructure that unifies portfolio, account and partner data; builds the structured operational processes covering portfolio acquisition, performance tracking and recovery management; and oversees the governance and data-protection frameworks aligned to Canadian regulatory standards.
He develops strategic partnerships with leading Canadian collection agencies and technology providers, owns financial reporting and recovery dashboards used by the executive team and investors, and leads the firm's brand modernisation — including its institutional digital presence and corporate positioning.
Outside BureauFix, Jonny is a co-principal of The Funding Globe alongside Neil Petty, runs an independent technology business, and holds director and advisory roles across several other companies. He brings to BureauFix a conviction that technology, data and integrity drive stronger outcomes in the recovery industry.
EXECUTIVE · 04
Becky Hutchinson
Director, Strategy & Commercial
Becky leads BureauFix's institutional counterparty relationships and the commercial structuring of the firm's long-form acquisition programmes — including forward-flow contracts, bespoke partnership arrangements and seller-side advisory engagements with Canadian originators.
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Her remit covers origination relationships across the platform's core segments — banking, telecommunications, alternative credit and fintech — alongside the strategic positioning of BureauFix inside institutional governance frameworks.
Becky brings a track record built across senior commercial roles in regulated financial services, where she has structured complex multi-year partnerships and developed deep relationships with consumer-credit and telecommunications originators. At BureauFix she is the bridge between sellers' commercial teams and the firm's principal group.
EXECUTIVE · 05
Anthony Finnegan
Chief Financial Officer
Anthony is bringing more than three decades of finance leadership to the platform. He oversees treasury, financial control, investor reporting and the firm's growing finance function — a team of more than fifteen finance professionals supporting a balance-sheet-led acquisition business.
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Anthony founded a UK accountancy practice early in his career, scaled it into a respected regional firm, and led its successful exit before turning his attention to senior finance roles in regulated financial services. He continues to run a UK-based fractional finance-director business advising privately held companies on financial leadership and growth strategy.
At BureauFix he is the steward of the firm's financial discipline — ensuring the funded execution and reporting integrity that institutional sellers expect from a serious counterparty.
Footprint
Headquartered in Alberta. Operating Canada-wide.
BureauFix is a Canadian-incorporated business with its registered office in Edmonton, Alberta. Our acquisition activity covers the full Canadian market, and our recovery operations run through licensed partner networks across every province and territory.
Registered office
2900 — 10180 101 Street NW
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3V5
Corporate registration
Alberta Corporate Access No. 2025518172
Business No. 786020958
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"We've built BureauFix as the kind of acquisition counterparty we'd want to sell to ourselves. Discipline, clarity, and a long-term presence — the table stakes that should be the floor."
— Neil Petty & Matt Miller, Principals