Last night I mentioned to my husband that I had just sent off the forms to transfer my Mini Cash ISA to a bank with a better interest rate. Well, as the Bank of England base rate has recently gone up, so too have savings rates, so it made sense to shop around for a better deal.
This Is Money: Banking Costs Hit Small Business
Small companies are being hit by higher bank charges, with costs for overdraft borrowing rising by 10% to £8.8bn in 2005
This Is Money: VAT Fraud Continues To Dent Economy
Half a billion pounds was added to the trade deficit today as the UK continued to count the impact of VAT fraud on the economy
Motley Fool: The Little Book Of Value Investing
“Think of the search for value stocks like grocery shopping for the highest quality goods at the best possible price.”
This Is Money: Free Mobile Call Revolution
Free internet calls via a mobile phone are to be offered at thousands of London ‘hot spots’, in a move that could be copied across Britain
This Is Money: IceSave’s New Best Buy Account
An Icelandic bank has shaken up the UK savings market, launching a new online account paying a market-leading 5.2%.
This Is Money: A Quarter Of Critical Illness Claims Rejected
Norwich Union, the UK's largest insurer, has revealed that nearly a quarter of all claims on critical illness policies are turned down
This Is Money: The Right Of First Refusal
The Daily Mail City team explain a rare sighting of a phenomenon not normally seen in British business deals
This Is Money: Walsh Wields The Big Stick
BA’s executives should never have trusted Virgin Atlantic after the long history of hostility between the two Heathrow carriers
Motley Fool: PartyGaming Is Not For Me
It’s not often you see a FTSE 100 company cancel a previously announced dividend. In fact, I’d never seen such an announcement until last week’s release from PartyGaming (LSE: PRTY).