Banking News Archive
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Free Banking Could Create Additional Problems for Mortgagers
Posted on March 29, 2012 | No CommentsMany people are struggling to meet their mortgage obligations. The banking industry understands that the financial problems experienced in 2008 were largely the result of many failings on the part... -
IMF says Spain’s economy still facing major risks
Posted on June 22, 2011 | No CommentsIt seems that the Euro is in the news a lot just lately. A few months ago I wrote about Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Italy all heading for financial... -
Credit card customers face higher costs
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsWell I suppose someone was going to take advantage of the low interest rate to make some more money out of the British public, and yes you guessed it, it... -
Wonga sees opportunity for growth in Ireland
Posted on April 12, 2011 | 2,158 CommentsWonga the pay day loan company is branching out, ok some say pay day loans are a life saver, some say it’s a legalised rip off. It doesn’t really matter... -
New rules for sales of PPI
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsWell it has taken long enough, but at last we have some type of regulation governing the sale of the most useless insurance policy ever dreamt of. The banks and... -
‘Worse off Wednesday’ starts a year that will cost households,2.3 billion pounds
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsWell today is Wednesday worse Wednesday, black Wednesday call it what you will. A lot of people will call it by a name which is unprintable, why? Because today’s the... -
David Cameron to take charge of under-fire NHS reforms
Posted on April 4, 2011 | No CommentsSo one half of the Laurel and Hardy comedy act is going to personally take charge of the “NHS reform bill”. I think that you are realizing that your financial... -
Northern Rock to axe 680 jobs to cut costs
Posted on April 1, 2011 | No CommentsStrange headline this is, only 10 days ago the bank bosses at Northern Rock paid themselves 13 million pounds in bonus, strange when you think about it, as the bank... -
Budget 2011: Winter fuel payment blow for pensioners
Posted on March 30, 2011 | 1,675 CommentsFor pensioners the winter fuel allowance was a life saver,now along with everything else the ConningLib government are cutting it back,but lets not despair there index linked savings will be... -
North Sea gas companies could get millions of pounds of tax breaks (Part 2)
Posted on March 29, 2011 | 2,341 CommentsWell that didn’t last long did it George? In part 1 I wrote that you were looking out for the British public by making the oil cartels pay tax now...
