Posted by Cashzilla in featured, insurance on 19. Apr, 2010 | 5 Comments
With Eyjafjallajokull causing problems to global travel, questions are building as to where insurance comes in and what about the pets?
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Oh, how the mighty banks have fallen.
Since Goldman Sachs started around 80 years, the phrase ‘Long-term greedy’ which was used by Sidney Weinberg, who was managing partner during the 1930s through to the 1960s, has been a sort of guiding mantra. This ‘Long-term greedy’ attitude helped the company grow from being a simple unknown [...]
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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 [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 14. May, 2007 | 2 Comments
It was inevitable. The UK Bank of England rate has risen yet again, now reaching 5.5%. After years of continuously rising house prices, and the base rate remaining static, this is now the fourth rise since September, with some analysts predicting rates will probably rise yet again in the near future to reach [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 23. Mar, 2007 | 2 Comments
According to a recent Which? survey reported by the BBC, “Most people who try to reclaim bank account penalty charges get some money back”.
The Which? survey found that 85% of consumers who demanded a [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in credit cards on 11. Oct, 2006 | 5 Comments
Welcome back Finanosaur fans.
I have just read the news section of the personal finance comparison site Moneynet, “Credit products should carry so-called ‘wealth warnings’, the ex-chief of Halifax has maintained”, and I cannot say that I am particularly surprised.This news should also not come as much of a surprise to most people in the [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 27. Sep, 2006 | 1 Comment
According to the latest research by Datamonitor, people in the UK are borrowing on average almost twice that of citizens in other western European countries. It should also be noted that these figures are also only for unsecured loans, and therefore do not include borrowing such as mortgages, in which the UK is notorious [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in lifestyle on 24. Aug, 2006 | 1 Comment
If you are a motorist you will have noticed the recently fluctuating fuel prices that have been going on in recent weeks.
In the area where this old dinosaur lives, the cost of a litre of unleaded petrol, driven by increases in global oil prices, rose by about 6 pence before the supermarkets stepped in [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in lifestyle on 16. Aug, 2006 | 1 Comment
According to credit reference agency, Equifax, it seems as though some canny students have caught up with the changes in the bankruptcy laws.
As part of their latest survey of soon-to-be students, they discovered that about 11% of the respondents were seriously considering the idea of taking advantage of the relaxation of the UK bankruptcy laws [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in credit cards on 09. Aug, 2006 | No Comments
In today’s world, credit and debit cards are increasingly becoming the main means for people to pay for goods and services. There are predictions that as soon as micro payments can be made using plastic, then cash will rapidly become a thing of the past. It seems that credit cards have come a [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in lifestyle on 05. Jul, 2006 | 1 Comment
As our regular readers will know, Cashzilla has the occasional rant about student finance, and the difficulties facing todays graduates. Today there is some good news however for those still in the higher education system, as the UK’s higher education minister has just announced new plans to help simplify the application process and the delivery [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in lifestyle on 23. Jun, 2006 | 2 Comments
Surprise, surprise. I go away for a while, and there is an announcement from the Consumer Credit Counselling Service that levels of ‘extreme debt’ in the UK are worsening. Now I don’t want to draw any obvious connection there, but the timing seems a bit coincidental don’t you think. Well now I [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in web on 23. Jun, 2006 | No Comments
Hi Peeps
Long time no write. Bad dinosaur, bad, bad, naughty dinosaur. i have just returned from Spain visiting my cousin Ladon the never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon who has been guarding the Garden of the Hesperides, for what seems like an eon now. Always having problems with hair dressers that one, costs him a fortune [...]
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