What Economical Factors in 2018 Could Affect Your Ability to Get a Loan?
The UK's debt crisis is getting worse based on a report by The Guardian. In 2017, household debt jumped 7% in five years from £1.5 billion in 2012 to £1.63 billion in 2017. Students will be paying a heavy price for the UK's inflation surge, which will drive the interest rate of their loans by 1/3 to 6.1%. With higher debts come bigger loan applications from individuals.
Read MoreHow to teach your children about money
The concept of money is something needs to be taught, even though it is probably the case that you cannot remember how you first ever learnt about money – it just sort of seemed to happen! The truth is, at some point you will have been taught about the world of money and the value of money. However, most of your knowledge is most likely based on experience. As a
Read MoreWhat is the Financial Services Compensation Scheme?
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme, known as FSCS, allows individuals and small businesses to claim money from authorised financial services firms that are unable, or likely to be unable, to pay claims made against them. The FSCS is a non-profit organisation which is funded by taxes paid by authorised firms in financial services and can provide claims for: deposits insurance policies insurance brokering investments, ISA, savings accounts mortgages and mortgage
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Are Short Term Loans Useful?
Taking out and utilising loans in general is a practice that is used many times every day throughout the UK. Loans include both secured and unsecured loans, large and small loans and long and short term loans. Although short term loans, particularly those relating to payday have got a bad press in recent times, there are in fact a number of ways in which short term loans can greatly help
Read MoreHow to avoid payday loans
It is that time of year again when Christmas is just around the corner and people are begging to feel a squeeze on their wallets due to the pressures of gift giving, travel and food costs that are all associated with the Christmas period. Some people get so worried about this that they opt to take out a payday loan, which will give you quick and easy access to the
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