UK Finance News

Nokia have this week  introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.
Nokia Money has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call [...]

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Regardless of the never ending media reports about  green shoots of recovery in the UK housing market, the fact remains that mortgage lending remains at a low level with figures issued by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) showing a drop in year on year lending at the end of July 2009.
Gross lending over the [...]

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A former Pickpocket with a conscience, has organised a gang of twenty other reformed pickpockets, to trawl London’s tourist attractions and slip money back into unsuspecting pockets.
UK Broadband provider, Talk Talk’s Chris Fitch, himself a former pickpocket, has announced the initiative in London, which will see at least £100,000 given away.
“It feels good to give [...]

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‘For the first time in a generation people will see their fares fall’ said Transport Secretary Lord Adonis upon the announcement that rail fares for many users will fall by a paltry 0.4%.
The decrease will affect almost half of UK rail fares and most commuters and is based on the Retail Price Index (RPI) on [...]

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Tesco have announced that they will doubling shoppers rewards through it’s Clubcard loyalty  scheme starting from August 17 in a move that business analysts say could cost the supermarket a massive £400million a year.
The supermarket has already  spent £150million re-launching the Clubcard in May this year, but rival stores in the top four UK supermarkets, [...]

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