It is becoming more and more expensive to learn to drive, which is why more young people are learning to drive in their late 20’s. With high tuition fees from instructors and high premiums, these ar...
Today is the last day of the strike from the Bank of England staff. This strike has affected departments from maintenance, parlours and security. The strike started on 1st August and has been going on...
Lloyds of London, the world’s oldest insurance market has stated that serious cyber-attacks could be more damaging for the global economy than incidents such as world natural disasters. Lloyds state...
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) is one of the biggest banking scandals there has been. Billions of pounds have been put aside to deal with the backlash of claims. In March 2017, the Financial Condu...
Lloyds of London boss Inga Beale says that research they have conducted states that the cyber insurance market could double in the next three years. At the moment the cyber insurance market is estimat...
In May 2018, The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. This will dramatically change the way organisations look after customer’s personal data. There are hug...
The real household disposable income has fallen at its steepest rate since 2011. The real household disposable income is the amount of money which families have to spend. This has decreased after the ...
After 3 months of decline, the housing market is now on the rise. House prices rose by 1.1% after May. With the average house price rising from £208,711 to £211,301.
April saw the biggest drop, with...
The general election has taken over the news this month, from the campaigning beforehand to the aftermath of the result. Many woke up on the 9th June to the shock of a hung parliament. Meaning there w...
Brokers who are using social media to set up fake policy documents are being named as ‘ghost brokers’. They set up fake documents and publish themselves on social media to give themselves creditab...
On the 1st June the Insurance tax premium (IPT) rate increased from 10% to 12%. This affected motor, home, pet, private medical insurance and insurance taken out by businesses.
This will increase the...
Property sales fell dramatically in April compared to March’s sales. This included the decreasing amount of mortgages being took out in April.
The amount of transactions of residential properties b...