Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized, lifestyle on 19. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
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Well it seems as though the deal is going through after management announced they would support the Kraft proposal to takeover Cadbury. This is despite comments by Gordon Brown and, the trade union, Unite’s warning that Kraft plans at least 10,000 job cuts worldwide to slash costs and repay the cash it [...]
Cheques are to be phased out by October 2018 if adequate alternatives can be developed in time according to the latest announcement from the board of the UK Payments Council.
This announcement comes after 350 years of cheque usage, however because of the use of credit, debit and contactless payment cards, alongside online shopping and banking, [...]
It has just been announced that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be investigating online pricing practices.
It’s been a long time coming and will lead to major changes for those seemingly ‘white knights’ of the finance world – the price comparison sites.
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In the finance world, there is a little known [...]
GoCompare is due to make some changes to their advertising as a counter move to the success the meerkat campaign has had for Compare the Market.
The new ad will feature an opera singer called Gio Compario. The website gio-compario.com has been registered by GoCompare but, at the time of writing, isn’t currently in use.
The [...]
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It seems as though everything just keeps getting worse and worse for the 20 and 30 something generations.
As I look around at the economic landscape I just have to dispair these days. On the one hand the government suggests a bright future with great high paying jobs available for all graduates, and [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized on 24. Feb, 2010 | No Comments
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It seems as though things have moved on from simply taking a disused airplane and turning it into a house, as discussed in a previous post (See – Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?)
According to an article on the BBC, a company based in Swansea has developed a new [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 22. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
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Bank charges could be set for another court battle after a ruling by a Glasgow Judge cleared the way for a proof hearing into determining whether bank charges are fair.
The Supreme Court verdict last November ruled the Office of Fair Trading could not assess bank charges under section 6 of the [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized, banking, credit cards on 29. Jan, 2010 | 1 Comment
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Under new Financial Services Authority (FSA) rules, financial firms who collect an excessive amount of complaints against them are to be named and shamed reports MoneySavingExpert news.
Over a six month period companies who receive 500 or more complaints will, under the rules, have to publish the numbers of complaints twice a year so [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized on 27. Jan, 2010 | 3 Comments
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The BBC report that the OFT has issued guidelines to lenders and borrowers about when their loans and other credit may, and may not be enforced. The guidelines come in the wake of OFT fears that some debtors may be misled into their ability to have debts written off.
The OFT draft guidance [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 17. Nov, 2009 | No Comments
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Wednesday week (25th November) will be D-Day for the banks in the long-running bank charges saga after it was announced earlier today that the Supreme Court will deliver their ruling on the legal battle according to MoneySavingExpert.
Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal have ruled that charges can be [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 16. Nov, 2009 | 1 Comment
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Christmas shopping was disrupted for thousands of shoppers on Saturday following the nationwide failure of Halifax and Bank of Scotland ATM machines.
The holes-in-the-wall were rendered unusable from early Saturday morning to mid-afternoon after a power failure at an IT centre in Yorkshire occurred. The outage also affected access to customers’ accounts via [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in credit cards on 28. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
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Not something I have ever really thought about before, but I just stumbled on a post on LifeHacker about How To Clean Your Credit Card and I guess it does make some sense if you are someone who constantly has to get a replacement card because the magnetic strip keeps [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized on 15. Sep, 2009 | 2 Comments
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Posted by Guest Dino in banking on 07. Sep, 2009 | 3 Comments
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Could this be the clearest indication yet that banks have admitted defeat in the long running bank charges saga? In a surprise move, the taxpayer-owned RBS-Natwest group has announced it will be slashing charges related to overdrafts – breaking ranks with the rest of the banking industry.
With a decision on whether the [...]
Posted by Guest Dino in Uncategorized on 28. Aug, 2009 | No Comments
The financial industry is in for a major awakening should the Conservative party receive the keys to power in the next general election says Channel 4 News.
Plans outlined by the party has revealed that one casualty of their proposed financial shakeup would be the Financial Services Authority (FSA) with their power being transferred to the [...]
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