27 March 2007
Spring is in the air and many homeowners are catching the DIY bug, leading Halifax to warn consumers to make sure they prepare financially for the full cost of any home improvements.
15 March 2007
A report from the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) has revealed that while more Britons are taking out financial agreements like secured loans, the majority of debtors are managing their loans "sensibly".
13 March 2007
Consumers' credit ratings could all be down to which zodiac sign they were born under, according to CreditExpert.co.uk.
09 March 2007
Debtors will be able to breathe a sigh of relief after it was revealed that the monetary policy committee (MPC) voted to keep the base rate at 5.25% yesterday.
06 March 2007
Howard Archer from chief UK economists Global Insight has predicted that the Bank of England will raise the UK's interest rate to 5.5%, but no higher in the following few months.
23 February 2007
The Income Protection Task Force, which includes representatives from CWC Research, Le Beau Visage and Lifesearch, is calling for a quick and efficient resolution to the payment protection insurance (PPI) policy crisis following its meeting with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) last week.
21 February 2007
Financial research analyst Defaqto has predicted that thousands of consumers will be eligible to claim that payment protection insurance (PPI) policies were mis-sold to them each year and that the knock-on effects could be devastating for the banking industry.
09 February 2007
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep interest rates at 5.25% for the next month
31 January 2007
Further investigations into the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies has led the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to fine one of Britain's biggest retailers a record sum of £610,000.
30 January 2007
One of the leading thinktanks, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR), has said that inflation will not fall as quickly as previously predicted.
26 January 2007
A report from the Thrifty Scot has revealed that British consumers can experience a real benefit from choosing to take out a secured loan, rather than a personal one, provided that they do their homework first.
24 January 2007
Secured loan customers are claimed to be among those being misled when it comes to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies and now one critic has accused unscrupulous lenders of using them as cash-cows.
19 January 2007
Money education charity Credit Action has released results from its recent research which shows that Britons' debt levels grow by £1 million every four minutes, with secured loans proving to be one of the key factors.
12 January 2007
Consumers who have taken out a secured loan recently will soon be feeling an extra pinch thanks to a decision from the Bank of England (BoE) which saw the base rate of interest rise by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.25% yesterday.
10 January 2007
Consumers who have taken out a secured loan are nervously awaiting the monthly decision by the Bank of England's (BoE) monetary policy committee (MPC) as to whether the base interest rate should be raised, lowered or held at the current 5%.
02 January 2007
January sales are here again and consumers who are feeling the pinch are likely to take out a personal loan to fund their retail therapy, according to Roger Bootle, an economic adviser to Deloitte Consulting.
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