We don't like loan size limits
We do not like loan size restrictions on mortgage products, especially fixed rates.
Borrowers will often see very attractive fixed or discounted rates, only to be told ...
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Catalogue stores deliver higher profits for GUS
The Argos catalogue shopping chain is driving retail conglomerate GUS to better than expected first-half profits, the company said yesterday.
In a positive trading stat...
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America celebrates in third quarter
Some of the biggest companies in corporate America yesterday kicked off the third-quarter earnings season and lifted hopes that the world's largest economy may be enterin...
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Lenders get little credit
A new inquiry into the debt and money question is long overdue (Cost of easy credit, October 14); however, one immediate relief could be a bill to make new loan agreement...
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Pensions credit
What's that?
A new means-tested benefit for people aged 60 or over, launched by the Department for Work and Pensions and adminstered by the Pension Service. The govern...
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Clothes prices push inflation down
Britain's underlying inflation rate dropped back slightly last month to 2.8%, its lowest level since June and one which economists said may persuade the Bank of England t...
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Inflation eases slightly
Britain's underlying inflation rate has dropped to its lowest level since June, official figures showed today.
For September, underlying inflation (RPIX), which excludes...
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Shock of my children's ?20,000 bills
The first Dan Salter knew about the debts of his two teenage children was when his 18-year-old son admitted he had been refused credit.
'Rick said that he'd been refused...
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Would they lie to you?
Millions of homebuyers face huge shortfalls on endowment mortgages. But in the mid to late eighties, when up to four out of five homebuyers opted for the mysteries of thi...
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We don't like Rule 78 on loans
We don't like the outdated Rule 78 on personal loans. Deregulation of the banks in the 80s swept away many strict lending rules. Somehow Rule 78 survived.
It forces ban...
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