Government Loans for First Time buyers
Those self serving suits from around Threadneedle Street who we saw exposed in Channel 4′s excellent documentary on non-executive banking directors, have been racking their brains recently on how to...
View ArticleA Quarter of Home Insurance Policies Cancelled As Recession Grips
One in four people have cancelled or not renewed their annual home insurance in order to save money during the recession, according to a recent survey carried out for the association of British...
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Recession still to bottom out as UK Insurance Industry Suffers
The pundits in the housing markets often seem to be singing from a different songsheet when it comes to what’s really happening in the UK economy. One minute we hear that repossessions have dropped in...
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Risk Management – Transport Sector heading in the right direction?
Transport Sector heading in the right direction? By Insurance Blogger Kris Oldfield Call it a credit crunch, an economic downturn or just a plain old recession the current financial situation is...
View ArticleUK Commercial Insurance Sector Set To Recover
With the UK in the deepest recession since records began in the 1950′s, it is hardly surprising that the Commercial Insurance Sector has seen it’s customer base shrinking faster than the Royal Mail...
View ArticleUK Consumer Law Tested for Loan Protection
Insurance Blogger loves a peoples champion and as this test case has shown UK consumers may now have far more rights and loan protection under UK Consumer Credit Law than was previously realised…. And...
View ArticleInsurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt
The Bank of England has just announced that the latest efforts at so called Quantitative Easing involves the injection of another £25 billion of made up money in the circular flow of money system,...
View ArticleGreen Shoots in the UK Economy and Markets?
There’s been a lot of positive talk in the UK housing market over the last few days or so……..Onward Christian Soldiers…..Relaxation of the credit stanglehold?Total net lending to individuals rose by...
View ArticleInsurance Leads The Way To Global Economic Recovery
UK Insurance Regulation: Geneva report suggests Insurance leads the way in rebuilding the economy A report by the Geneva Association published this week has indicated that Insurers and Reinsurers are...
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Unemployment Insurance – An Election Safety Net?
The past week of electioneering and the unemployment figures released midweek by the Office of National Statistics, paint a gloomy future for many currently employed in the Public Sector and jobs that...
View ArticleInsurance Companies must be held to account for the Recession
Who really calls the shots – The Government or Big Business when it comes to setting the direction and flow of the future economy? You don’t need to look much further than the Insurance Industry to see...
View ArticleThe effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market
The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already named the austerity budget, with huge public...
View ArticleNew Year Recession Fears
Insurance blog thought the silly season was in the Summer, but from the noises coming out of Whitehall and what remains of Fleet St. recently, it looks like it’s begun early! If all the Economic...
View ArticleShadow Banks Not Banks To Blame For UK Economic Crisis says FSA
Lord Turner, Head of the Government owned, insurance broker subsidised UK financial services authority the FSA, has been busy espousing his thoughts on the current economic crisis and apparently the...
View ArticleInsurance Companies Should Support Barclays Shareholders Bonus Demands
Regular readers of Insurance Blog will know that we are not fans of Banc-assurance, indeed if it was mandatory you’d find us voting for UKIP in next months local elections! The whole concept of...
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