When faced with bankruptcy, there is a wide variety of myths and legends surrounding the process. Your well-meaning friends and family may repeat this misinformation to you, which can increase your anxiety or even cause you to delay seeking legal …

What has become increasingly apparent over the past decade is that more and more older people are living to a long age. This of course is good but has left countries with a reversing age pyramid. There are more people …

Accountancy plays a very important role in the UK’s economy. The Professional Oversight Board estimates that there are nearly 290,000 qualified accountants in the UK. With about 5% of the labour force working in the finance industry, accountancy in the …

If you have a house, apartment, summer house, storage unit or anything similar which you do not use at a certain time, you are in danger of squatters. Squatters are people who do not have a home and who do …

Banking’s no longer as simple as it once used to be: To open a bank account nowadays you will, for example, need to be subjected to a credit check. As part of this procedure, the bank will look at your …

The IMF (International Monetary Fund) has announced that China’s currency, the yuan, stands a chance to become a reserve currency in the future. China has taken steps to achieve a stronger exchange rate with greater flexibility, and should this financial …

If you have made the decision to purchase a property for the very first time, you may be a little confused as to exactly what is involved in the process.

Managing your credit is an increasingly difficult problem. With the economic situation the way it is, credit is much harder to obtain than it was a few years ago. If you were to apply for credit say back in 2008 …

So there’s been some bad news this week for UK Chancellor George Osborne! Credit rating agency Moody’s has emerged like a bolt from the blue and downgraded several European countries …

The United Kingdom looks to benefit by a seven hundred and fifty million pound consumer spend in the period of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is the largest spending increase by consumers expected for any host of the …