Category: Banking and Savings

UK house prices are currently rising rapidly, and this means that many of Britain’s landlords are struggling to make a return on their properties. This means that, because interest rates look set to rise, many landlords are now being forced to sell their properties for financial reasons. Whether you’re looking to sell your property because…

Secured – or homeowner – loans involve much higher sums than unsecured – or personal –loans and generally have much longer repayment schedules. They can be used to fund any type of major purchase including home improvements, new cars and holidays and can also be used to pay off other debts, rolling a number of other loans…

Year after year, studies have shown that financial illiteracy is a big problem, not only in the UK but the rest of the world as well. The UK isn’t as bad off as some countries, but we’ve no cause to be complacent.

The modern world undergoes rapid changes in almost all the rounds and financial management is not an exception. Increasing possibility of carrying on business abroad, establishment of the international financial institutions, international tourism and the numerous related factors require development of international financial system.

Big Winners Jim Maroney was one happy fellow. He’d just won the Euro Millions lottery. Like everybody else, he had been buying tickets for years, never imagining to win, but unexpectedly, the day had come. Jim and his wife religiously watched the draw with TV dinner on their laps and tickets in hand. As the…

n the housing industry, it’s called “negative equity.” In the automotive industry it’s called being “upside down.” In both cases, it means the same thing: You owe more money on an asset than the asset itself is worth.