In January, the house price growth picked up according to the Nationwide Building Society. From December 2017, to January 2018, it went up 6%, from 2.6% to 3.2% respectively. These figures were surpri...
Starting on Monday, Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and MBNA customers will not be able to purchase Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies on their credit card. However, they will still be able to...
Official figures show that the UK employment fell by 3,000 in the last 3 months, from November. Figures show that the unemployment is now at a figure of 1.44 million people, which is a 42-year low, le...
As reported last year, inflation rate rose to 3.1% in November 2017. Which was a 6 year high for the UK’s economy. This meant that Mark Carney – the governor of the Bank of England will be writing...
Cold calling is a big issue and is continuously growing in 2018. Which is why many want it to come to an end, helping those who are in a vulnerable situation. Last year, scammers and claims firms sent...
On the 13th January, the way the banking industry is running will change, giving more control to the customers. This new rule known as open banking may be detrimental for the major banks. As all of th...
Interest rates
Last month, the Bank of England raised the interest rates from 0.25% to 0.5%, which was the first increase in 10 years. Yet, in the Monetary policy committee (MPC), they stated that th...
The Financial Inclusion Commission (FIC) has highlighted huge gaps in the contents insurance across the UK. In fact, the report conducted by them, revealed that 16 million people don’t have contents...
Brexit is still a big and topical debate which has many different issues surrounding it. One which is becoming a big issue which can’t seem to get resolved is the border issue between Northern Irela...
Cyber-attacks are becoming a big threat to all sized companies. Generally, people think it is only the large firms which get affected, yet many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are affected by hack...
Yesterday Philip Hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer delivered his Autumn budget 2017. In case you missed it, we have summarised the key points of what he announced yesterday afternoon here.
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Tomorrow (22nd November 2017) is the day Philip Hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer will be announcing the budget. So we have created everything you need to know in preparation for this event. He...
