UK homeowners paid off more of their mortgage borrowings last year than they had done in any other single year official Bank of England figures show.
Mortgage borrowers paid back more than £24 billion to lenders in 2010, the highest since records began in 1970.
They returned £7 billion in the final three months of the year, [...]
Banks are trying to maximise short-term profit at the expense of customers, the Bank of England governor has said.
Mr King said that, over the past two decades, too many people in financial services had thought “if it’s possible to make money out of gullible or unsuspecting customers, that’s perfectly acceptable”.
He said: “Why do banks in [...]
Fixed rate mortgages were at their most expensive for six months at the start of February, according to research by financial information service Moneyfacts.
It said that lenders were finding that the cost of raising money themselves had risen in recent months, and this was being forwarded to customers.
“The majority of lenders have increased rates since [...]
Last week the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted to keep interest rates on hold with no increase in Quantitative Easing.But re-mortgager asks with rising unemployment and government cutbacks- should more be done to stimulate the economy?
Quantitative Easing (QE) is the Bank’s policy of putting new money into the financial system to try [...]
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept UK interest rates on hold at 0.5%, and unveiled no new quantitative easing (QE) measures.
Both decisions were expected, but it will not be clear whether they were unanimous until the minutes of the meeting are released.
At the MPC’s December, November and October meetings there was [...]
Approvals for home loans – notably for people remortgaging their properties – picked up slightly in November official Bank of England figures show.
Approvals for remortgaging were up by nearly 4,000 on the previous month to 34,262 in November.
Consumers’ repayments of unsecured debts outstripped new borrowing.
The figures showed that £121m more was paid back on credit [...]
With unemployment growing and government cutbacks in the pipeline will UK house prices plummet?Maybe not- with two factors stopping sales and prices falling more sharply.
One has been the Bank of England’s determination to keep interest rates as low as possible, for as long as possible.
And the other has been the lower than expected rise in [...]
Homeowners should start preparing for interest rate rises ahead of a return to “normalised” levels of around 5 per cent a senior Bank of England official has warned.In an interview Paul Fisher, a Bank of England official and a member of the rate setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), said central bank policymakers would like rates [...]
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept UK interest rates on hold at 0.5%, and unveiled no new quantitative easing (QE) measures.
Both decisions were expected, but it will not be clear whether they were unanimous until the minutes of the meeting are released.
At the MPC’s November and October meetings, there was a [...]
The UK’s mortgage banking sector is already “enormously competitive” and banks do not need breaking up, the boss of Lloyds Banking Group has pleaded.
Eric Daniels, Lloyds’ chief executive, added in his testimony before the Treasury Committee, that “concentration does not lead to lack of competition”.
He said the “great majority” of Lloyds’ customers were satisfied, and [...]
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