Blog
11th November 2014
If you’re fortunate enough to come into a fairly significant sum of money, it can occasionally cause confusion and some problems, rather than immediately solve them, especially if it comes during a period when you’ve been tightening your belt and...
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NESTA Report: Understanding Alternative Finance
10th November 2014
NESTA and The University of Cambridge have published The UK Alternative Finance Report 2014 titled ‘Understanding Alternative Finance’. The report outlines a market overview, awareness and perceptions of Alternative Finance, size, growth and trends of different platform models. The...
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Pay Day Loan Companies Face More Regulation As They Continue To Charge Without Borrowers’ Knowledge
7th November 2014
The high street bank, Natwest, have expressed concern recently over a high number of their customers complaining about funds being taken from their accounts by payday loan companies and brokers acting on behalf of payday loan companies. They have been...
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Bank of England Interest Rates Announcement
6th November 2014
The Bank of England announced today that the UK Bank Interest Rate is to remain at an all-time low of 0.5%. This is the sixty eighth month in which the Monetary Committee has met and voted to keep the...
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The Cooling Housing Market: Are Prices Gradually Going Down?
4th November 2014
For many looking to buy a new property, or get on the property ladder in the first place, it might seem that prices are continually rising and making many areas of Britain unattainable for a lot of buyers, but...
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Love Lending Week
3rd November 2014
Wellesley & Co. partner up with NACFB to introduce Love Lending Week! Wellesley & Co. team up with the NACFB for Love Lending Week Running from 3rd – 7th November 2014 Lenders are successfully lending to small businesses...
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World Savings Day is celebrated today!
31st October 2014
The World Savings Day was established on the 31st October 1924, during the 1st International Savings Bank Congress in Milan, Italy. The Italian Professor Filippo Ravizza declared this day the "International Saving Day" on the last day of the...
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Popularity of Online Lending and Finance Predicted to Soar
30th October 2014
Yorkshire-based loan software provider Nostrum have recorded a prominent increase in the number of online lending platforms, which could “ultimately lead to purely online self-managed processes for people borrowing money”. Norstrum also investigated the various types of borrowers they...
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UK State Pension named “one of the worst in Europe” by Think Tank
28th October 2014
The state pension offered in the UK has been identified as one of the lowest in Europe by the International Longevity Centre (ILC). The UK was measured against other European countries, with Greece coming out on top, where pensioners...
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Is There a Gender Investment Gap?
24th October 2014
When it comes to savings and investments, a significant and widening gap between the habits of men and women has been revealed in research conducted earlier this year by Duncan Lawrie Private Bank’s 2014 Gender Wealth Gap Index. The...
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