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3 Imminent events which may amend the credit card industry in 2013
Every year some latest set of rules or trends concerning the credit card industry come to the fore. 2013 isn’t an exception either. Of course this year also some significant trends and obligations for credit cards users will emerge. The government has recently made some changes in the credit card rules for 2013. The 3 [...]
Posted in Credit Card News
Claim Your Tax Refunds
We British pride ourselves on being an economically shrewd nation and it is this that makes it even more surprising that large proportions of us fail to claim our tax refunds every year. Put it this way, if you were owed over a grand by someone, would you fail to chase up the matter and [...]
Posted in taxation
Using Life Insurance with Long Term Care Benefits
It is a well-known fact that the cost of insurance premiums are rising fairly abruptly. This is particularly evident with long term care insurance premiums, which have increased relatively sharply in recent years. Given this rapid rise, many families are opting for an alternative route, combining life insurance with long term care benefits. Hybrid Products [...]
Posted in Insurance Information
Minimise Interest, Pay Your Bills and Still Have the Money You Need
Debt free is a term that means a lot to most people. It is synonymous with financial freedom, the ability to use your money as you want it and freedom from the shackles of a monthly or bi-weekly payment. But while being debt free is a great goal, most people have no idea how to [...]
Posted in Debt Information
Vehicle Leasing Firms Criticise Government Plans
Car leasing customers and business owners have called for more notice on policy changes that could play a part in their future agreements and finances. The changes to Benefit In Kind (BIK) Tax has found criticism from both industry watchdogs and firms who use vehicle leasing to help benefit their business. Previously any changes to [...]
Posted in Motoring Issues, Uncategorized
Business And Their Insurances
With so many different types of businesses and industries that all have their unique practices, buildings and management style not to mention unique selling points that insurance is not merely entering a make and model of car. For some businesses it can be a complicated process with risk assessments occurring for every action, to establish [...]
Posted in Business Info
How Insurance Companies Dispose Of Your Accident Car
A member of the family once rang me convinced she had seen the very car she had written off 9 months earlier. She had been given full payout of trade value for the vehicle and as the car looked a total wreck assumed it was going straight to the crusher at some breakers yard. This [...]
Posted in Motoring Issues
Composite Doors In your Budget: Get your own choice
Composite doors are a kind of doors that are most demanded in modern day. These are designed so specifically that it excels in many features. They have their own style, great look. Also, it involves some of the main functionalities with itself. All these factors contribute a lot towards your lifestyle and affordability of getting [...]
Posted in Home Owner Information
Security Is Key Part Of Insurance
There is more to home insurance of business insurance than just the premiums you endure. How secure your property is can and is directly related not only to premiums but whether you are actually insured at all. One part of this is the quality and structure of entry points of the building especially the doors [...]
Posted in Insurance Information
Is Your Home Insurance Secure
As financial institutions tighten up their purse strings to get through these difficult times, it may be more important than ever to ensure your home insurance policy is adequate for the purpose. For example, many have not been able to move house recently due to low house prices or the difficulties in obtaining a mortgage. [...]
Posted in Home Owner Information
Mortgage leads
Many of you who read our news section will know that we are currently developing a sister service called Mortgagebam with the objective of bringing mortgage seekers and independent advisers together. To fully understand how we were going to do this, we needed to look at how the internet is currently generating mortgage leads. What [...]
Posted in Home Owner Information
Breakdown Services League
Back in July 2008 the good old Which magazine did a review and report on the breakdown services and as a review site, with your opinions important to us, it makes sense to share some of those from the Which League. The clear winner was the AA with an impressive overall score of 78%, the [...]
Posted in Motoring Issues
AA Breakdown Cover As A Gift
Trying to find the right Christmas present for the person who has everything can be a nightmare at the best of times, but now during the financially hard hitting times, there are those who could do a few practical gifts this Christmas. One solution could be to buy breakdown cover as a gift, either for [...]
Posted in Motoring Issues
What Has Been Happening
Once again we have been slow updating some financial news on Financebam, we will get it right soon. Let’s start with an update on some financial news items over the last few weeks that will only scratch the surface of what really happened. Yesterday it was mentioned that even though the high street is taking [...]
Posted in Finance General
MortgageBam Is Comming
We considered carefully about adding mortgages to our Financebam site but decided against this as we believe this sort of commitment needs to be done with professional qualified mortgage advisers to ensure you get the right advice, rather than just filling in a form with Financebam. It is not like car insurance where if you [...]
Posted in Home Owner Information
We Are Changing
For those of you who visit FinanceBam regularly have probably seen a bit of a change recently. Gone have all the financial banners and we are currently just focussing on reviews only. The truth is we felt we had lost our way and had started to push the banners more than what the site was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
What A Difference A Year Makes
We have been very lapse at keeping Financebams’ financial news section up to date, but this is itself has given the subject of our first article in a while. You can clearly see the mood of the financial world from our previous posts, with none suggesting the downturn in economy or drop in house prices [...]
Posted in Home Owner Information
Planning, Preparing and Protecting
On 13th June Alpesh Patel wrote an article for Msn Money about how to handle the FTSE when it is on a rollercoaster ride. According o Patel the only way is PPP: Plan, Prepare and protect. He says that if you risk too little on each trade the returns will be too low to overcome [...]
Posted in Stockmarket
Recession on the Way
Recently the government Bonds have found there way to the main headlines John Stepek says in his 25th June’s article “Why a recession is on the cards” for MSN Money. Although things have stabilised somewhat now, the yield on a 10-year gilt (UK government bond) last week hit a seven-year high of nearly 5.5%, while [...]
Posted in Stockmarket
Everlast Bought by Mike Ashley
The June 29, 2007 edition of Telegraph explains how Sports Direct, the retailer that own Sports World chain and the Lillywhites store in the UK has purchased Everlast, the well-known American boxing glove manufacturer, for 84 million pounds. Sports Direct, being in financial trouble, hopes that this move will help them break into the lucrative [...]
Posted in Business Info