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The market by letters – A
Our weekly look at the mortgage market, letter by letter starts with that perennial favorite A is for APR. APR stands for Annual Percentage Rate, and is designed to allow you to compare different credit and loan offers by describing the interest rate for a whole year rather than just a monthly fee/rate. It’s calculated [...] -
Someone stole my bank
It’s all change on the high street again so I suggest you take notes. Lloyds Banking Group (you know, what used to trip off the tongue as Lloyds Bank, C&G, Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Scottish Widows, TSB, Intelligent Finance and others), announced today that they will close all C&G branches in November. Hmmm I hear [...] -
5 similarities (and 1 difference) between the credit crunch and swine flu
The similarities They both reached these shores from across the Atlantic – the credit crunch as a result of sub-prime lending in the US, and Swine Flu from Mexico. After spreading to the UK, there are reports of swine fever from almost every corner of the world. Symptoms for swine flu include fever, headaches, chills [...]
