How fit are your finances?
Welcome back!Applying for a new loan or credit card is a competitive business, with the best deals going to the people who have the fittest credit history. If you want to be in the running, you need to remember the old fable and act like the tortoise, taking time to manage your money, rather than [...]
Learn MoreFSA reports a 31% surge in Mortgage Arrears
According to a recently published article by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on the latest mortgage lending statistic they reported a sharp surge in mortgage arrears. With borrowers continuing to struggle to clear their mortgage arrears, the numbers of arrears have been progressively increasing since the beginning of 2007. By the end of 2008 there [...]
A lifetime of debt that could take 93 years to pay back!
A recent survey of 1,407 new debt clients was conducted by the Citizens Advice Bureaux and they found that the average amount of debt owed by their clients’ was £16,971 in 2008 and one client in ten had ten or more credit card debts. More than fifty percent of these clients had four or more [...]
