Helping you keep your finances healthy!

UK banks have come in for their fair share of criticism in recent years. People have been angered by the huge bonuses the top dogs have received since the banks were bailed out by the taxpayer.

Banks are at long last coming round to the idea that the Internet is not just a place to share jokes, but a way to do money as well.

Seven money resolutions for the next three months. They make the most of seasonal opportunities to save.
And they prevent us from simply switching off after the summer, condemning ourselves to another year of paying over the odds for things like energy, insurance, debts, etc.

After years of high interest charges following the first signs of the British credit crunch, personal loan lenders are at last becoming more competitive and affordable.

With the cost of living rising and our disposable incomes declining, are we Brits being backed into an economic corner?

I fear we are. The news shows that the squeeze is coming from both sides:

1. Our cost of living is rising at the fastest rate in a generation.
2. Our take-home pay is in decline, thanks to job cuts, pay freezes and higher tax.

Does it make you doubt our economic hard times and ‘Big Society’ when this year’s Premier League has seen five of the most outrageous big money deals struck between football clubs and players to secure the latest hot footballing talent?