Understanding Your Credit File Here are some money tips that suggest your credit file rating could suffer as a result if you not understand what credit file terms are all about. It can be hard to navigate the credit minefield, which is littered with technical credit file terms and governed by rules that many...
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Credit Scoring Finance lenders use credit scoring to help them decide whether or not to approve applications for loans, credit cards, mortgages and other forms of credit like mobile phone contracts. Since the recession we have seen credit scoring being used more and more to determine which interest rate an applicant should be charged...
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ID Fraud Can Damage Your Finances If You Become A Victim of ID Fraud it will cost you money to sort it out. Our Financial Expert, Mark Aucamp, has discovered that a tsunami of ID fraud is Overwhelming Britain today. This is based on a survey by Infosecurity Europe. Such fraud can lose, and...
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Money saving expert believes that the stamp duty holiday on properties costing less than £250,000 is set to become permanent, more homes coming onto the market in the wake of the abolition of Home Information Packs and a few green shoots of economic recovery poking through, now could be the ideal time to take...
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Last month saw the lowest mortgage approvals since this recession started back in 2007. First time buyers are still struggling to get on the property ladder and some of the latest information suggests that the average age of a first time buyer is 37, this is frightening. With first time buyers’ stamp duty holiday...
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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...
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The Money Saving Expert has discovered that in the last five years, most people’s attitude to their credit status was, “It must be OK – I’m always being offered cards and loans.” Today, things couldn’t be more different. Banks facing the combined effects of the credit crash and recession have tightened their lending criteria...
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You spend months planning the Christmas festivities: where to go, which parties to attend, what to wear, which presents you’ll give. Quite how you’ll pay for all of this often gets overlooked in the excitement. As a money saving expert it is important that I highlight how to look after your money and your...
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Just as the world is warming up, the credit climate has undergone a profound change since the recession took hold the money saving expert has discovered. According to the latest Bank of England figures, around 1.6 million of us apply for some form of credit every month, from loans and cards to mortgages –...
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As a finance guru I am often asked for tips and advice for someone who has just been made redundant. How should they cope with protecting their finances and their credit report? The spectre of losing your job can be terrifying, especially when vacancies are at a record low. But once the initial shock...
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