Banking News Archive
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World Central Banks Take Steps to Resolve Credit Crisis
Posted on December 1, 2011 | No CommentsOver the past weeks, the world has been growing more and more concerned over the contractions of Europe’s central banks. Earlier Wednesday, the world central banks announced their intentions to... -
Families £700 a year worse off
Posted on June 23, 2011 | No CommentsFamilies £700 a year worse off We are all feeling the effects of inflation, unemployment, benefit cuts, job security, literally everyone in the country is suffering in one way... -
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... -
Oil prices hit fresh highs on supply worries
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsSo oil has gone up again, the people on the petroleum exchanges must be making a fortune, they put the price increase down to the unrest in Libya and the... -
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... -
Energy firms told to warn customers before they raise prices
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsSo energy companies or utility companies have to inform us 30 days before increasing there prices. Well nice thought, but with the way the price of this is going up... -
Budget 2011: Oil industry tax grab will lead to job cuts (Part 1)
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 566 CommentsSo George is not going to put extra duty on fuel and is going to tax the North Sea oil companies, good for you George. It’s about time they paid...
