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Lloyds Banking Group sells Halifax for £1

Lloyds Banking Group has sold its Halifax estate agency business for just £1 to LSL Property Services. The group has said 1,050 employees will be transferred to LSL after the sale. However, the move is likely to cause 460 jobs to be lost, 360 of which... Read >
Author: Sam Gooch

The Homeowner Loan Before And During The Credit Crunch.

The homeowner loan is a type of secured loan which must be secured against a property, and preferably your own residential owner occupied property.You can also secure a homeowner loan against a buy to let property which is owned by you but is rented out. ... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer

Lloyds reports £4bn in losses for 2009

Lloyds Banking Group are the next major bank to reveal losses after releasing the first half year figures from 2009. The group has put the mounting losses down to its acquisition of HBOS, which took place in January. The firm made a £4billion loss fro... Read >
Author: Which4u

How to Ensure Your Savings are Safe

With so much turmoil in the banking sector over the past few months, savers are feeling justifiably jittery about the safety of their hard-earned cash - but just how safe are their savings? Many are nervous about putting their faith in savings institu... Read >
Author: MarkeD

Buy Italian furniture from Efurnituredirect

Before making your final decision of buying furniture take quotes from efurnituredirect.com and then make your decision. Since 1995, they have been providing Top Quality European Furniture , Italian furniture to customers from all over the country. Unlike... Read >
Author: Albert Morkel

Who Owns Who in the Banking Sector

The financial turmoil of the past 18 months has led to a wave of consolidation in the banking industry, making it even harder to ensure you're not putting all your eggs in one basket. We take a look at today's banking sector to find out who actually ow... Read >
Author: MarkeD

Fury that banks are hitting small builders after Applecross goes bust

Scotland could lose all its small building firms over the next six months, the chairman of collapsed construction company Applecross has warned. Graham Aggett, whose company fell into the hands of receivers last week, claimed that other small firms would... Read >
Author: Rivington

Buy Italian furniture from efurnature.com

Before making your final decision of buying furniture take quotes from efurnituredirect.com and then make your decision. Since 1995, efurnituredirect have been providing Top Quality High End European Furniture ( Italian furniture ) to customers from all ... Read >
Author: Albert Morkel

Credit Cards: Who Owns Your Plastic?

The background Keeping up with who owns what in the financial services industry is never easy, particularly when it comes to credit cards. And, it's just got even more confusing thanks to the recent wave of consolidation in the banking sector, crea... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer

Top tips on how to keep your money safe

These are worrying times for savers. Not only have interest rates fallen to record lows, slashing the returns people can earn on their money, but there have also been a number of high profile banking collapses. Unsurprisingly, many consumers have been le... Read >
Author: MarkeD

The Top 5 Employers in Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and is home to almost 500,000 people. Being the second most visited city in the UK after London, you'd probably expect to find the majority of jobs in Edinburgh situated in the retail and tourism sectors, but sur... Read >
Author: MarkeD

Take Advantage of Falling Rents in London Office Space

According to figures in the latest report from a leading global property advisor, around 14 million square feet of office space in London is now lying unoccupied. This figure is at its highest since March 2007 and shows an increase in vacancies of 36.5% i... Read >
Author: clickthrough

Landlords Shouldn't See a Low Property Value as Insuance of Future Capital Growth

Landlords Should Be Cautious Before Investing in a Falling Property Market Landlords are probably familiar with the expression that 'fortune favours the brave.' Belief in this sentiment is certainly being challenged at the moment. Property prices... Read >
Author: Propertyhawk

Bank bosses apologise ‘unreservedly’ | Finance sector news from Workcircle

At hearings of the Treasury Committee on 10 February, the former bosses of HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland - the two UK banks most seriously damaged by the financial crisis - apologised for their banks' failures. Lord Stevenson, former chairman of ... Read >
Author: trumpington

Lloyds in further loan worries

After figures released revealed that many loans produced by Lloyds bank were worth only a fraction of their original value, the bank could now be forced to write off a further swath of loans made by HBOs to hundreds of companies. As the economy worsens... Read >
Author: catherine

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