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Strong results from Nationwide have contrasted sharply with figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders, the British Bankers' Association, and the Building Societies Association - and indeed its own forecasts for 2005 - as to the waning strength of the...

Health warnings and summary boxes will appear on credit card statements from March next year, as part of a series of reforms designed to improve transparency to the customer.

Average house loan sizes as well as the number of such loans approved dropped in September, figures published by the British Bankers' Association suggest.

NEW LABOUR'S drive towards compulsory pensions savings has begun as new Pensions Minister Alan Johnson yesterday proposed to the party conference employees would have to opt out of occupational schemes, says the Times newspaper .

STRONG SIGNS of a housing slowdown are now acknowledged at one of the major trade bodies, as the British Bankers Association says the number of new mortgages approved dropped 20% in July from the previous month, says this morning's Scotsman newspaper....

Rising interest rates are causing house price falls and slower consumption nationwide new economic data suggest.

Mortgage lending in the UK slowed down sharply in May as lack of affordability and rising interest rates put a brake on the market, says the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

Mortgage lending in the UK shows little sign of slowing down as the Council of Mortgage Lenders says lending in March may have hit a record high.