For a long time the traditional length of a UK mortgage has been 25 years, but runaway house prices and, more recently, dramatically higher borrowing…
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Nationwide faces mounting calls to give members say on Virgin Money takeover
The Nationwide building society is facing growing calls to give its 16 million members a say on its proposed £2.9bn takeover of high street rival…
View More Nationwide faces mounting calls to give members say on Virgin Money takeoverBank of England sticks with 5.25% interest rate but hints at coming cut
The Bank of England has dropped the broadest possible hint that the next move in interest rates will be downwards after forecasting inflation will fall…
View More Bank of England sticks with 5.25% interest rate but hints at coming cutUK car finance: ‘millions of drivers could get payout’ as watchdog investigates
Millions of drivers could be in line for a payout, it has been claimed, after the UK financial watchdog opened an investigation into whether consumers…
View More UK car finance: ‘millions of drivers could get payout’ as watchdog investigatesUK students launch Barclays ‘career boycott’ over bank’s climate policies
Hundreds of students from leading UK universities have launched a “career boycott” of Barclays over its climate policies, warning that the bank will miss out…
View More UK students launch Barclays ‘career boycott’ over bank’s climate policies‘I felt powerless’: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss £300,000
A senior manager at a UK investment firm has told how he was conned out of his £300,000 life savings by cryptocurrency scammers. Matthew Thomas*…
View More ‘I felt powerless’: how a crypto scam cost a finance boss £300,000Will high interest rates burst the new car bubble and will drivers hand back keys?
Britain’s car buyers are a nation of borrowers: more than four in every five new cars bought by individuals in 2022 was paid for with…
View More Will high interest rates burst the new car bubble and will drivers hand back keys?Green investment funds pushing money into fossil fuel firms, research finds
Investment funds branded as green or socially responsible are being used by some of the world’s largest asset managers to invest hundreds of millions of…
View More Green investment funds pushing money into fossil fuel firms, research findsFinancial sector ‘critical’ to stemming biodiversity loss, says Thérèse Coffey
The financial sector must be encouraged to invest in nature conservation for the world to meet this decade’s UN biodiversity targets, the UK environment secretary…
View More Financial sector ‘critical’ to stemming biodiversity loss, says Thérèse CoffeyScams: FCA blocks more than 10,000 ads from Instagram, Facebook and YouTube
More than 10,000 misleading financial promotions and scams aimed at consumers via social media sites such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok have been identified…
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