Articles in the Students Category
HSBC U-Turn After Facebook Protest
September 4th, 2007
Following on from last week’s post on students pressuring HSBC on Facebook, HSBC have decided to do a U-turn on their plans to scrap interest-free overdrafts on their graduate accounts:
Thousands of students on Facebook had threatened to boycott the bank. The National Union of Students said this made
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Students Pressure Bank Using Facebook
August 29th, 2007
The internet is the power behind yet another consumer protest - this time, students have joined together on Facebook to protest against HSBC’s decision to scrap a 3-year interest free deal on their graduate accounts.
Around 3,500 students have joined the “Stop The Great HSBC Graduate Rip-Off” group to try …
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Test Your Personal Finance Knowledge
July 31st, 2007
Last Saturday’s Telegraph newspaper included a personal finance quiz so that you could test your knowledge of some common finance issues.
I was a little bit worried that I’d fail miserably, but thankfully I got 19/20, tripping up on question 13, about the amount of capital gains tax you are …
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More on Repaying Your Student Loan
July 11th, 2007
Brad Ford made a great point on my previous post about whether to pay off your student loan or not:
Without factoring in risk, paying off the student loan is an easy decision. Unfortunately, life is not without risk. Two months after you pay down the loan, you absolutely
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Student Loans: Pay or Delay?
July 10th, 2007
Like many, I left university with some debt. I’m probably one of the lucky ones though, as it wasn’t a huge amount, compared with the average figures that students are accumulating these days, plus all of my debt was in student loans - no overdrafts, credit cards etc.
I’ve been …
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MoneyExpert: Majority ‘have Not Changed Current Accounts In Ten Years’
January 9th, 2007
A total of 60 per cent of Britons have not changed their current account in over ten years even though they could have benefited from better rates, it has been claimed.
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This Is Money: Lloyds Boss To Face IPod Music
January 3rd, 2007
Lloyds TSB has struggled to sign up customers to its ‘free iPod’ student account, leaving about 44,000 machines gathering dust
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Motley Fool: Warning Signs For Homeowners!
November 16th, 2006
Every month, figures from the Bank of England show that the UK’s mortgage debt continues to soar. Here’s how it’s exploded over the past decade:
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This Is Money: Top 50 Books Of All Time
November 5th, 2006
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four remains the most popular book with university students, see the full list. (How many have you read?)
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MoneyExpert: Barclaycard Lowers APR
November 2nd, 2006
Barclaycard has announced that the annual percentage rate (APR) on its Barclaycard Platinum credit card is to be lowered from 17.9 per cent to 14.9 per cent.
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