Major banks to drop debit ca...

December 21, 2011

After a months’ long investigation into the transaction fees UK banks have been charging debit card holders for purchasing foreign currency, the OFT released a statement that five of the major UK ba...

Chancellor backs Vickers’...

December 20, 2011

It has come as no surprise to financial experts that Chancellor George Osborne has given his backing to parts of both the Vickers’ banking report as well as to suggestions in the Independent Commiss...

For the first time this year...

December 19, 2011

One of the problems which the UK has been facing is that landlords are having difficulties keeping lettings rented. For the first time this year rents have fallen and in November it is said that they...

HMRC deals with corporations...

December 18, 2011

In the midst of government cuts in funding of social programmes due to ‘austerity measures’ there now seem to be deals on the table with major corporations which will cut taxes by billions of poun...