Despite the economic downturn and bailing out of finance houses by the Government, finance houses are still filling their bonus pots rather than helping small companies. Where finance houses do lend to small companies they seem to be setting high rates of interest, which could well put a lot of small companies off. [...]

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The financial turmoil that has hit some European countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal, where they have seen their economies suffer and almost faced bankruptcy, only to be saved, almost at the eleventh hour, by other eurzone countries, has caused much concern in the money markets. While the UL economy has large debts, [...]

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The poor financial climate has brought many issues to companies, large and small, but when a small, business is left waiting for a large business to pay an overdue bill, then to see finance houses posting large profits and paying out bonuses, but refusing to extend overdrafts must be hard to accept. If the [...]

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When a small company is faced with their first overdue account for jobs they have done or goods they have sold to a large company, they could wonder why now the large company has not paid on time as usual. Obviously their first step should be to get hold of their normal contact in [...]

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This situation is serious in itself, but it is surely made worse by the fact that the banks are reluctant to offer financial assistance to businesses, so any small business is facing a double whammy on the finance front of bills not being paid and financial support facilities being turned down. The first move [...]

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Regardless of whether you are investing in your first residence or are moving from your current one, investing in a home is one of life’s most important financial and personal investments and when applying for a mortgage you can easily be baffled by all the different options lenders offer you.
Quite simply a mortgage is [...]

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The final date for European finance houses to repay the loans which they were granted a year ago is getting close and global investors are rather uneasy at what will take place when the European finance houses apply for new loans. Last year the loans were given at low interest rates to help during [...]

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