Who is Hoist?
Hoist Finance - fully Hoist Finance AB - is a party that buys up debt from other financial institutions. So Hoist does not provide loans or credit itself, but buys over a debt that someone has with a bank or other lender.
That may sound a little strange to you, so we'll give an example to clarify.
Suppose Pete has a debt of €20,000 with Interbank. Pete gets into financial trouble and has been unable to make repayments for several months. Hoist Finance can then offer to Interbank to buy over the outstanding debt for €10,000.
For Interbank, this may be a way of choosing eggs for its money. They may no longer be confident of recovering the outstanding €20,000 due to Pete's financial problems and are now getting at least part of the money back. Hoist Finance makes money by eventually trying to still collect the full €20,000 debt from Pete.
The outstanding debt is thus transferred to Hoist, which then acts as the new creditor. Thus, the associated BKR registration also comes in the name of Hoist Finance.
Pete has nothing to say in this whole story, but he is the one who ends up with a BKR registration with Hoist Finance. As a result - even if he has repaid the full amount - he will have trouble taking out a mortgage, for example, for years to come.