UK Finance News

Tesco is close to completing a deal to buy out Royal Bank Of Scotland’s stake in their joint venture, Tesco Personal Finance.
The deal is expected to be worth £1bn and has been under negotiation since April when the bank announced that it would be putting up for sale some of it’s assets to bolster it’s [...]

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Sub Prime mortgage lender Edeus look to be a bit desperate to off load some of the mortgages on it’s books, having offered a discount to customers for early re payment.
Edeus have so far tested the water with 400 of it’s customers and interest from eligible customers is said to be 20% at this stage. [...]

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Bank Of England governor Mervyn King has suggested that Banks should put ‘billions of pounds’ into a fund over the next ten years to prevent another Northern Rock disaster.
King told a meeting of the Commons Treasury select committee yesterday that banks should make “non-negligible contributions” into the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, adding that over ten [...]

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Reports in this weekends press suggest that only around 10% of HBOS shareholders participated in the banks rights issue to raise £4billion.
Experts are concerned that the take up may be so bad that it will leave underwriters Morgan Stanley & Dresdner with as much as £3.6bn worth of the banks stock.
HBOS had hoped to rally [...]

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UK criminals are keeping one step ahead of credit card technology despite the introduction of Chip and Pin which was designed to give the customer more security.
Figures for credit and debit card fraud last year, rose to an incredible £535million, with criminals using new methods of committing credit card crime.
The skimming of cards being used [...]

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