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Non-advised packaged accounts: positive customer outcomes and experience

Huntswood wrote 2 days ago: www.huntswood.com Packaged accounts are currently under increased regulatory and media scrutiny. Fir … more →

Tags: Huntswood Advisory Services, Huntswood Learning and Development, TCF, Banks, Customer experience, customer outcomes, financial services staff, Packaged Accounts, Training

87TH POST - HAVE YOU SEEN THE HOUSE PRICE CRASH ?

brentwoodbuff wrote 2 days ago: 23-May-2013 HAVE YOU SEEN THE HOUSE PRICE CRASH ? Serendipity led us to a WebSite this week, which w … more →

Tags: Economy, Tax, inflation, Government 2, house prices, House Values, RPI, housepricecrash, house value

Interest only Mortgages - Some moral resolve required

dsfrost wrote 3 weeks ago: I can only hope that the Building Societies and Banks are going to have some backbone and not roll o … more →

Tags: Economics, Business, Mortgages, Banks

COREP IMPACTS EVERYONE – NOT JUST THE ‘BIG BOYS’

carinabirt wrote 4 weeks ago: For many international banks and tier one financial services organisations, the imminent arrival of … more →

Tags: Corep, FINREP, XBRL

CANSTAR Youth banking & education awards 20121 comment

Ben Leong wrote 1 month ago: CANSTAR’s Youth banking and education awards (2012) [PDF, 552kB] examine how financial service … more →

Tags: Reports, 2012, Financial Literacy, Education, Youth, CANSTAR, Banking, Banks, Credit Unions

Debts and getting help

kevtheed wrote 2 months ago: More and more UK households are feeling the effects of low, or non existant, income increases and ri … more →

Tags: Finance, Debt, mortgage, Debt, Banks, financial management, un-employment

The future of building societies

janethontoir wrote 6 months ago: Here is my summary of the HM Treasury Consultation Document on building societies published in July … more →

Tags: bail-in, Building Societies Act, depositor preference, Leverage Ratio, ring-fencing

Homes are still where the heart is for estate agent Roger

martintideswell wrote 8 months ago: England had a World Cup-winning football team when Roger Follwell took his first steps towards a car … more →

Tags: 80's nostalgia, stoke-on-trent, Newcastle, burslem, middleport, eighties, North Staffordshire, Stone, Roger Follwell

Building societies increase their lending by 50%

simoncheckley wrote 10 months ago: Figures from the Building Societies Association released this month show that societies have increas … more →

Tags: Mortgages, complex prime, Building Society Association, Expert Advice

Change your bank immediately

truthnotanger wrote 10 months ago: Way back in 2009 I wrote a series of blog posts about the break up of the banks. 3 years later, let … more →

Tags: General, Finance, Politics, Banks, Economic Crisis

Mutuality and Financial Innovation

bbatiz wrote 11 months ago: The New Deal and the Origins of the Modern American Real Estate Loan Contract in the Building and Lo … more →

Tags: Money & Banking, USA, Mutuals, building loan, transaction costs, Contracts, Corporate Governance

SAVERS ARE LOSERS - 3

ploughshare wrote 1 year ago: POST Four Back  14-May-2012 ( Based on originals of 9/14/19-April-2012 ) There is much wrong with ou … more →

Tags: Economy, Tax, UK, Income Tax, Savings, Interest, Mutual Building Society, Inflation, Savers

The Politics and Markets of U.K. Financial Services, from The Political Economy of Financial Integration in Europe: The Battle of the Systems, ith Ingo Walter, MIT Press, 1997.

Jonathan Story, Professor Emeritus, INSEAD wrote 1 year ago: In the present debate about what happened in the 1980s, there is a widespread view that the Conserva … more →

Tags: Chapters in books, EU, financial services, Banks, UK, big bang, Insurance, regulation

Deposit Account Rates for April 2012

Ciarán wrote 1 year ago: As expected at this time of year, many banks and building societies have increased their interest ra … more →

Tags: Deposit Account Rates, deposit account rates, bank of england base rate, cash isa, tax year, Inflation, cpi, RPI, cash

Taking on the BIG 4

Gregory McKenna wrote 1 year ago: Cross posted from MacroBusiness Australia is a country that seems to gravitate toward industrial and … more →

Tags: Banking, Westpac, ANZ, CBA, NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Banks, 5th Pillar, Mutuals

The Co-operative Group, Bill Gates and Texaco/Chevron oil . . a good time to heed Edgar Parnell's latest message

admin wrote 1 year ago: The two following posts relate, in some degree, to Edgar Parnell’s email message, which is heard wit … more →

Tags: Problems, Education, Democratic Participation, co-operative movement, Edgar Parnell, Co-operatives Act

Confidence in UK housing market stable despite economic gloom

UK Property Investment Services wrote 1 year ago: The 14th quarterly Property Tracker survey from the Building Societies Association shows that consum … more →

Tags: house prices, Housing Market, Mortgages, property market, UK economy, YouGov

Dan Hyde: the Co-op can change High Street banking for good

admin wrote 1 year ago: In This is Money earlier this month, Dan Hyde wrote about the Co-op Bank’s acquisition of 632 Lloyds … more →

Tags: LLoyds, Co-operative Bank

A Brief History Of Banks

Financial Reform wrote 1 year ago: Infographic by Confused.com – money saving made easy. … more →

Tags: banks and lenders, history of banks, clearing banks, Merchant Banks, investment banks, Monetary Reform, Quantitative Easing


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