'Financial News' Category

Surge in claims for unclaimed assets from dormant Bank accounts

13th August 2007

UK consumers are increasingly turning to the British Bankers Association’s (BBA) account tracking service to claim money from dormant accounts. Claims using the BBA service have surged more than thirty-fold due to an awareness drive by banks, building societies and National Savings & Investment. Customers are claiming forgotten assets worth between £350 million and £500 [...]

Homeowners are urged to fix rates now

27th July 2007

Homeowners who want to fix their mortgage are being urged to act quickly after two of the country’s biggest lenders pulled their deals and economists warned a Bank rate of 6% looks more likely.

Too few people are saving enough for retirement

20th June 2007

Scottish Widows reports that not enough people are making an adequate provision for their retirement.
The latest Scottish Widows UK Pensions Report has revealed that 49% of people are saving enough for their retirement, but also showed that some 24% are making no provision whatsoever – Whilst 51% of those who should be preparing for retirement [...]

UK Student Loans up 6% this year

17th June 2007

UK university students were lent more than £3 billion in the last financial year. The Student Loans Company (SLC) said the total lent to all students during the financial year 2006/07 for English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish universities was £3.4 billion.
This compares with £2.9 billion lent the previous year.  The scale of lending to [...]

UK Savings are up but also is spending

12th June 2007

The UK banked a record amount of savings between April and June 2006 new figures have shown with some £38.6 million put away for future uses – according to a new report from IFA Promotion.
Despite the record figure, the report also noted that debt remains high – suggesting that people are putting money away [...]

1 in 5 UK consumers unhappy with their credit card providers

10th June 2007

A recent study showed more than 1 in 5 UK credit card holders are unhappy with their credit card – that’s equivalent to over seven million UK consumers.

 

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