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Debt consolidation loans
03 January 2007
Sainsbury’s Bank estimates that up to 433,800 personal loans worth around £4.8bn will be taken out between January and March 2007 for debt consolidation purposes.
Research from the bank found that ...
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IVA Personal Insolvencies
03 January 2007
Almost 30,000 personal insolvencies are expected in the first three months of 2007, reveals Grant Thornton.
Out of these, 10,000 will be as a result of excessive Christmas spending. The prediction ...
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Debt Collection in Liquidation
27 November 2006
The secretary of state for trade and industry has presented a petition in the High Court to wind up Waterfront Financial Limited in the public interest.
The company operated as a commercial debt co...
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Tories Tackle Debt
21 November 2006
The Conservative Party has unveiled a new blueprint plan to tackle soaring debt and financial exclusion, including a possible sevenday cooling off period for store cards.
Speaking at a Conservative...
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Insolvency Debt on the Rise
14 November 2006
According to research published today by leading debt solutions consultancy, Thomas Charles, the number of consumers facing personal insolvency is continuing to rise steeply, with women by far the wor...
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Farepak Food & Gifts Ltd
14 November 2006
Farepak Food & Gifts Ltd is a wholesaler and retailer of food and nonfood products.
The company achieved a turnover of £68 million in 2004 and £81million in 2005. However, in spite of increasing s...
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New Mortgage Products
13 November 2006
Investment bank Lehman Brothers has made widespread changes to the product offerings of all its three UK mortgage brands, LMC, Preferred and SPML.
SPML (Southern Pacific Mortgage Limited) has annou...
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Debt Helpline
13 November 2006
The Regional Money Helpline, a telephone and webbased advisory service designed to help UK consumers get to grips with debt, will launch Monday November 13 2006.
TRMH initially expects call volumes...
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Debt Problems
08 November 2006
Citizens Advice Bureaux advised on 1.4 million debt problems over the year, an increase of 11% on the previous year with housing debt being the fastest growing problem area.
One in five of all CA...
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Debt Management Companies
06 November 2006
An industry body for debt resolution companies is to be launched to be known as the Debt Resolution Forum (DRF).
A total of 34 firms in the debt resolution industry indicated their willingness to ...
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Interest Rates
27 October 2006
Interest rates need to rise to 5.25% by early next year if inflation is to be tackled, predicts the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
The thinktank said it expected inflation to r...
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IVA Insolvency
16 October 2006
Richard Fiddis, managing director, UK, Ireland and Northern Europe at Experian, has spoken out against the rising tide of insolvencies and, in particular, Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), whi...
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unauthorised borrowing charges
12 October 2006
Business Monefacts says unauthorised borrowing charges and the issue of late payment represents an increasingly expensive, but in many cases, an unnecessary overhead for small to medium enterprises.
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House prices
12 October 2006
The Department of Communities and Local government has released the results of its house price index showing that the mixadjusted average house price in the UK in August 2006 stood at £197,631, up fro...
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Debt Management
04 October 2006
R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals is calling for more regulation of debt management companies to protect the public from misleading and bad advice on the options facing people in ...
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Blemain awaits FISA approval
11 August 2006
Manchesterbased secured lender, Blemain Finance, has applied to join the Finance Industry Standards Association (FISA).
Discussions are continuing within FISA as to whether the application will be ...
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Spiraling Consumer Debt
11 August 2006
Spiraling consumer debt will eat away at UK financial stability unless the government steps in, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned.
Members of the ABI / Populous savings panel fou...
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June gross mortgage lending highest on record
27 July 2006
June’s gross mortgage lending of £20.5 billion was the highest on record 24% higher than June last year, data from the Major British Banking Groups shows.
Seasonally adjusted underlying net mortga...
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Credit card
30 June 2006
Credit card borrowers with flawless borrowing histories are increasingly likely to be turned down when applying for new plastic, research from Moneynet.co.uk has revealed.
Mounting evidence from u...
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FSA fines Rainbow
30 June 2006
The Financial Services Authority has fined Rainbow Homeloans £35,000 for systems and controls failings which exposed around 1,000 people to the risk of being sold unsuitable products.
The FSA found...
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House prices grew by 0.3%
30 June 2006
Nationwide says house prices grew by 0.3% in June, the third month in a row of subdued growth.
The annual house price growth is now at 5% and Nationwide says affordability constraints will continu...
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gross mortgage lending up 10%
01 June 2006
Gross mortgage lending was up 10% to £15.5bn in April, 10% more than April last year but 4% lower than April two years ago, reveal figures from the Major British Banking Groups.
MBBG has now releas...
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providers still not giving customers fair deal, says
01 June 2006
Critical illness providers are still not doing enough to treat customers fairly, although improvements have been made, says the Financial Services Authority.
While the regulator says firms selling ...
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HIPs
01 June 2006
With just under a year to go, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says that the detail expected from the government over the next month will be crucial in determining how effective the implementation of H...
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Consumers call on lenders to be more responsible
04 May 2006
A poll from moneyfacts.co.uk reveals 83% of consumers feel lenders should be more responsible with the amount they lend.
The April poll also shows 79% of consumers do not have Payment Protection I...
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Rise in house prices
18 April 2006
House prices have risen for the fifth consecutive month with more people enquiring about purchases for the tenth month in a row, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors'' (RICS) UK housing market...
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Top CCJ Blackspots
18 April 2006
Households in Yorkshire and the Midlands are more likely to have County Court Judgements (CCJs) registered against compared to anywhere else in England or Wales, research by online credit report servi...
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Men are more likely to be bankrupt than women
03 April 2006
Men are still more likely to become bankrupt, than women, and have average scheduled debts of about £46,000 according to new indepth research
The Insolvency Service’s Characteristics of Bankruptcy,...
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Commercial First
03 April 2006
Commercial First, a provider of commercial mortgages to the nonconforming market, has announced a major expansion of its sales and marketing team
Recruitment is underway for a business development ...
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Citizens Advice
20 March 2006
Citizens Advice, the national charity that deals with over one million debt problems a year, has welcomed a government amendment to the Consumer Credit Bill that promises to outlaw irresponsible lendi...
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