UK Finance News

We are all becoming increasingly familiar with the concept of ‘the cloud’. The idea can be summed up as: computter resources suspended out there somewhere in the ether (rather than anchored in your office or computer room) to which we connect as and when necessary.
All those of us who make use of social networks such [...]

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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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In the UK, after 20 years of pension panic, an increasing chunk of the working population have made the journey from ‘Nanny State’ reliance mentality through the rough seas of the denial phase when ‘it will never happen to me’ and beached safely on the idea that their property will be their pension.
Well done. They [...]

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Research by Watson Wyatt indicates a 35% jump in Enhanced Annuity sales from 2006 to 2007.
Enhanced Annuities provide people with serious medical conditions the chance to obtain much improved annuity rates – and therefore a much better pension from their accumulated fund.
The bottomline is that if you’re likely to die earlier, the providers are happy [...]

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At last one of the leading UK mortgage lenders has shown some sense, by telling house-buyers in London that they must raise a deposit of at least 25% or be penalised with higher interest rates.
The minimum deposit required by Nationwide building society to secure their best rates has risen to a sensible 25% up from [...]

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