UK Finance News

It is a very fine line to tread for the State Owned Banks, do they offer financial assistance in the form of mortgages at cut rates to lenders in a bid to re-vitalise the property market as requested of them by the UK Government, or should they protect the tax payers interest by offering deals [...]

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A report conducted by the Financial Times suggests that the Chancellor Alistair Darling could be well off the mark when predicting that the UK’s one off tax on bank bonuses would bring £550million in to the Treasury during this financial year.
Instead the Financial Times report says that the 50% tax levied on bonuses over £25,000 [...]

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For many of us the festive season is a time for over indulgence, be it over eating or drinking or over spending on presents for our families and loved ones. It is often our credit cards that take the brunt of the cost for the season and nothing brings on the January blues quite like [...]

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The end is nigh for the humble bank cheque, after more than three hundred years as the payment of choice for many, banks are expected to vote to phase it out in favour of more up to date payment methods.
During the last  forty years credit and debit cards have taken over from bank cheques for [...]

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France are to follow the lead outlined by the UK government in Alistair Darling’s recent pre-budget speech and introduce a special one off tax on banker’s bonuses for 2010.
French Finance minister Christine Legarde has said that a bill will be put before the French parliament in January that will commit tax bonus payments of over [...]

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