MORE than two million borrowers are damaging their credit rating by making multiple applications for credit cards – damage that could land them with inferior interest rates.
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Scotsman: Regulator Must Use Full Force In PPI Investigation
THE cynicism of insurance providers must end.
Scotsman: Graduates: How To Help Your Finances
PASSING your degree usually means you are about to embark on your adult life. You find your first full-time job and – for the first time – you have money in the bank.
Scotsman: IPOs Are Singularly Individual Way For Investors To Cash In
FOLLOWING the herd in investing is a tough way to make money.
Scotsman: Hopes For Japanese Trust Not Inflated Over The Long Term
JAPAN’S emergence from deflation – when the country saw many years of falling prices – looks set to continue to benefit investors in the Baillie Gifford Japan investment trust.
Scotsman: Speak Out Against Rise In Mortgage Exit Fees
TREATING customers fairly is a vision we all welcome. Indeed, it is embedded in the requirements of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the body that regulates most of our financial transactions.
Scotsman: Cash Clinic
I OWN a property in Portugal, which I partly use as a holiday retreat and partly for letting. I am concerned that I have not declared this income on my tax return. How do I go about telling the taxman and am I going to be in serious trouble for these…
Scotsman: Lloyds Open To Young Scots Savers
SCOTTISH children will find it easier to open bank accounts after Lloyds TSB Scotland became the first UK bank to accept Young Scot cards as a suitable means of identification.
Scotsman: Help To Save The Planet While Fuelling Your Savings
WITH soaring gas and electricity prices hitting consumers in the pocket, energy providers are looking at ways of developing cheaper, more environment-friendly fuel.
Scotsman: Savings Slump Deepens, With Few Looking To Retirement
STANDARD Life has discovered that the proportion of people saving has fallen over the past three months, but confidence in property as an investment class continues to be high.