The FSA have started to come down heavily on firms that fail to meet their compliance obligations.
It may sometimes be a little chaotic, but spending time with family and friends over Christmas is always wonderful. Over and above the generosity, thoughtfulness and good cheer that we associate with Christmas, spending time with family and friends also...
Whether running a directly authorised or appointed representative network, trading conditions have been far from easy. Competition in this area is also very stiff and for those looking to make a good fist of their network operations in the coming months...
First-time buyers are now facing very real difficulties in getting a foot on the property ladder.
The must-see programme of our youth - Top of the Pops has been consigned to the dustbins of our collective memory, as it was apparently no longer 'relevant' to the audience of today.
It's taken a while, but the mortgage industry has finally moved out of the inertia that was the result of the imposition of regulation. Now it is back to what it does best - designing and marketing the most innovative mortgage products in the world. But,...
An eminent expert conducting a review of the UK mortgage market in 2004 declared customers should be buying products with long-term fixed rates and that brokers should be pushing these.
I don't know about you but I found the latest report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, concerning young people's attempt to get their foot on the property ladder, grim reading.
I don't know about you, but techology was never my bag and, to be honest, at one time I went out of my way to avoid discussiong the subject.
I love my gadgets as much as the next busy person - I don't know where I would be without my Blackberry, its proved to be a real god send when I'm out on the road. But the pace of technological change is unrelenting.