The news comes as the battle to attract savers’ cash Isa money hotted up yesterday, with a best-buy cash Isa launch from Barclays.
However, Barclays was one of the banks mired in cash Isa delays during the spring of 2007 and 2008, after it launched best-buy Isas in March and could not deal […]
Susan Fitz-Gibbon, partner at lettings agent Fitz-Gibbon in West London, replies: Now more than ever it is vital agents and landlords are up to speed on all new and existing legislation affecting the industry.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPC's) were introduced for residential lettings in October 2008 so if you are renting a property […]
Does this mean they are doing a terrible job or are they excluded because they are not open to all.
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Simon Moon from This is Money replies: I put your question to the Police Mutual Assurance Society (PMAS) who […]
Professor William Perraudin is chair of Finance at Imperial College Business School .
What is it with macroeconomists? You think you understand how the economy works and then they come up with some subtle new monetary operation called ‘quantitative easing’.
With interest rates rapidly approaching zero, central banks in many countries right now face […]
Some of the money would help the tens of thousands of elderly people who are forced to sell their houses to pay for residential care.
The call came in advance of a Government green paper which is expected to set out long-term reforms of the system.
But the Joseph Rowntree Foundation - which has led complaints […]
The building society is therefore abandoning the strategy of completely free overseas card use that it has previously promoted.
It will start to pass on a 1% fee charged by Visa for transactions outside of Europe and associated countries, initially at a lower rate of 0.84% and at the full 1% from July.
Nationwide […]
While some are seeking to cash in on the rise of the euro, others have found the cost of running a holiday home or retiring on the Continent too high as the pound has fallen to historic lows.
Foreign currency broker HiFX has seen a 180% rise in the amount of euros being converted into […]
The Building Societies Association today said an additional 1.2m accounts - net of closures - were opened in 2008. It meant an extra £9.9bn was held by building societies at the end of 2008 than the start.
Building societies attracted £20bn in net receipts in the 16 months after September 2007 when Northern […]
Many people face troubles in paying their IRS debts and the back taxes. If you have not been paying your taxes for a long time, the government can take your home, car or many other valuable things to recover the previous dues. If you are facing similar problems, it is time that you should look […]
But investors considering dipping their toes into the murky waters of the currency markets should beware – this is a high risk game where any number of factors can swiftly turn a fortune into a loss.
Investing correspondent Philip Scott, investigates the world of the currency trader and explains the risks.
The fate of the pound has […]
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