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The lending industry in the UK is very fluid and we try to help our customers keep up to date with it by posting some light news stories when they come across our bow.
Sunday, 21 May 2017 15:11
Economic growth worse than feared
We’ve been told for weeks that spending is slowing in the UK as consumers demonstrate nervousness – and today we were given the statistics. Britain suffered a major slowdown in the economy– worse than previously thought – as people started spending less on retail and reigned in the pennies as living costs continued to heighten. The economy ground to 0.3 per cent in the period Jan-Mar which has alarmed economists…
Sunday, 07 May 2017 13:14
Budget supermarkets may be the way to reduce those rising food bills
Very soon, our food consumption habits could be changing. For generations, we have always had what we call ‘the basics’ in our fridge – butter, milk, cheese, bread – they have all been permanent fixtures in our fridges for years – until now. The cost of these ‘everyday’ foods is on the rise again. They have been under the cosh for many years, but they are, again, continuing to creep…
Saturday, 08 April 2017 12:56
Are Britain’s bosses really worth 386 times more than the average worker?
Always a controversial topic – money and the amount we earn. But what about the out-of-control executive pay gap that reveals a huge disparity in the ‘fat-cat’ salaries of Britain’s senior bosses and undermines the government’s efforts to create “a fairer society” or an economy that “works for everyone”. Forget the ‘glass’ ceiling in this instance, the ‘class’ ceiling reveals the eye-watering difference in obscene pay and undeserved rewards FTSE…
Saturday, 11 March 2017 10:41
Our survey shows one in five people applying for a loan has less than £60 left in their account
When people come to us looking for a loan we know that they are here because they are in a sticky financial situation. Some of the situations people find themselves in cannot be helped and it is hard to comprehend just how some people's finances are in dire straits. One of our surveys has shown that one in five people that came to us for a loan last year had…
Wednesday, 01 March 2017 09:27
Financial name and shame is all well and good, but the blame lies firmly with ‘the powers that be’
Millions of families – 19 million people – “just about managing” are on the verge of tipping into poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, who also predicts that it may drastically worsen over the next few years! No wonder, when hundreds, including household names like Debenhams and Subway, fail to pay either the National Minimum Wage or the National Living Wage and the government does little in the way…
Friday, 10 February 2017 13:54
Are smart meters really as smart for our pockets as we are led to believe?
When it comes to energy and water suppliers, the buzz word of the moment is smart meters. This revolutionary technology is the way forward according to providers of these two necessities and more and more of us are in line to have it rolled out to us. It sounds pretty straight forward doesn’t it? Smart meters measure exactly what power and water you are using and make life simple for…
Monday, 12 May 2014 18:18
Another Lender Leaves the UK
It comes as no shock to us that another lender has decided to leave the UK's lending market. After all the Financial Conduct Authority has almost taken over the business of lenders, they decide on how many times a business can roll over loans, how many much they can charge for interest and even how fast they can make decisions in. All in all it makes it impossible for lenders…
Wednesday, 19 March 2014 12:04
Budget Day Hits The Poor Again
It is that time of year again when the budget comes and we are hit with more taxes. This year will be no different from the many that have past. Taxes don't usually go up or down, the Government just changes the way in which they raise them. What is almost forgotten in all the media sham is whether or not our national debt is going up or down, or…
Monday, 27 January 2014 02:32
Cameron does not understand the housing crisis
Recently David Cameron has been publicly praising what he considers to be a huge success with the Help to Buy scheme. The recent campaign promoting the scheme showed us heart-warming pictures of Cameron and what looked to be a young single mother and her toddler, struggling their way through the world, in need of government help with housing. It has been revealed in an anonymous blog that the poster-girl was…
Friday, 27 December 2013 00:36
Picture a Cheque - The new way to cash a cheque
The pain of physically paying cheques into a bank could soon be over. A new method of processing cheques has been devised and tested over the last two years and it is as easy as taking a picture of it and sending it to your bank. Cheques have almost completely ceased as a method of payment between individuals, except the odd Christmas and birthday. The biggest effect of the change…
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Tuesday, 10 December 2013 07:13
Government surveillance damaging the economy
Beyond invading personal privacy to an extent that is making people feel uncomfortable sharing any information online, it seems that the US economy is also suffering from the recent revelations about mass surveillance. By choosing to operate mass surveillance in secret, the NSA has damaged the growth and reputation of American companies, making their credibility questionable to customers. Companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are beginning to appeal…
Monday, 21 October 2013 04:54
Union chiefs playing chicken with their members jobs
Leaders of the Unite union who are £100,000 plus per year have decided that it would be a good idea to play chicken with their members jobs. However they could be left with egg on their faces tomorrow as the owners of the Grangemouth refinery decide whether or not to shut the plant and make redundant thousands of workers. Of course it would be no skin off the nose of…
Tuesday, 03 September 2013 03:50
The site is now under new ownership
We are pleased to announce that the Quick Loans Network has taken over the running of the this website. The site will shortly benefit from a full redesign and come back with several new features that will make getting a loan through this site a very easy process. For those who visit the site enquiring about PPI Claims, we are aware that the old owners of this website never brokered…
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