Alliance & Leicester

Those in their early 30s have the highest borrowing of any age group, and are the most likely to skip repayments, claims Alliance & Leicester.

An increase in the traditional rental market could see the buy-to-let sector growing by more than 40% by 2016, claims Alliance & Leicester Mortgages.

Richard Pym is to step down as chief executive of Alliance & Leicester after five years in the role, says the Daily Telegraph .

Prudential yesterday cheered its millions of with-profits policyholders with news final payout values have been boosted by up to 17.5% and the majority of mortgage endowments are on track to pay off home loans, says the Guardian .

We asked you to vote on as your favourite Valentine's ‘finance' story, on the back of a story we ran highlighting the gems of press releases which wouldn't usually make it into our pages but found very highly amusing.

It's the time of year again when press teams at some of the major financial services companies have a secret competition to see who can come up with the most ingenious link to Valentine's Day.

Over half of British workers would not be able to manage financially if they were unable to work in the event of accident, illness or unemployment, according to research from Alliance & Leicester.

Alliance & Leicester has put its entire range of prime residential and specialist BTL, self-certification and near-prime mortgages fully online for intermediary access.

Consumer debt is falling for the first time since the early 1990s, according to Alliance & Leicester's borrowing monitor.

Alliance & Leicester says brokers want to see the buy-to-let market regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).