Personal Finance NewsThe financial stresses and pressures of self-employment are taking their toll on family life, according to the latest report from Scottish Widows’ think tank, the Centre for the Modern Family. Findings of ‘Self-employment and the Family’ show that one in five relatives of a self-employed worker (20%) report increased stress levels in their household due […]
More than a third (35%) of UK broadband users who’ve experienced a period of internet access when they tried moving providers in the past say the thought of being without internet has put them off doing it again, according to new research by uSwitch. Yet those consumers are missing out on collective savings of £327 […]
Coventry Building Society is giving customers the ability to compare its savings accounts with competitor products on its own website – the only major UK savings provider to do so. Customers can compare similar products across the whole of the market – on areas including the interest rate, the amount they can save and how […]
Research from Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, reveals that 90% of Brits have not heard of the Open Banking initiative, with 45% of respondents then going on to say that they are not likely to use Open Banking when it becomes available. When asked about sharing personal data through Open Banking, 60% said […]
The latest figures for the Current Account Switch Service published this week show that over 3.5m (3,520,190) successful switches have taken place since the service launched in 2013. During the last 12 months (1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016), a total of 1.01 million switches were completed, with 208,387 switches recorded in the last quarter […]
New research by Onbuy.com/gb has analysed data conducted by AXA Insurance to establish which cities are most at risk of debt in 2017 – with Brighton,Cardiff and Newcastle struggling the most. Onbuy.com/gb looked to assess and evaluate how long cities will take to repay their debts – with Belfast taking the longest at 6.5 weeks […]
By Emma Huntington, Managing Director of Zurich FutureYou Keep on track by getting organised With so many bills to pay each month, it can be stressful keeping up with how much is coming in and out of your account. You can keep up-to-date by creating a spreadsheet. Having a document that lists everything in one […]
A quarter of all card transactions are now made via contactless, new figures from The UK Cards Association show. 325 million purchases were made using contactless debit and credit cards in November 2016, accounting for 25 per cent of all card payments in the month. The rise in contactless payments led to a record £2.9 […]
The remortgaging rush is expected to continue in 2017, with almost a third (31%) of eligible homeowners planning to cash in on low interest rates. One in four of those plan to act now and remortgage in January. The potential savings they could be making, however, are being underestimated by nearly half, according to a […]