Daily Archives: May 27, 2016

Cashflow Planning Is Not Just For Business

Cash Flow Planning Is Not Just For Business Cash flow planning is a very useful tool for businesses; however they can be helpful for personal finances as well. Thinking about the future When you’re young you feel invincible; it rarely occurs to you that one day you will no longer be young. You don’t think…

FinTech Is Slowly Taking Over The Financial Industry

Fintech Is Slowly Taking Over The Financial Industry FinTech companies are starting up across the globe, but what exactly is FinTech? What is FinTech? Financial Technology (or FinTech as it’s starting to become more commonly known as) is a new industry slowly taking over. FinTech is an industry which offers financial services to people while…

Always Waiting For Pay Day

Always waiting for pay day? Do you find you are waiting for the payday every month? Are your wages not lasting the whole month? When pay day feels far away When your salary just doesn’t quite stretch until the payday, it can feel like a trap with no way out. This situation is affecting more…

Key Money Questions To Ask For Blended Families

Key money questions to ask yourself when you are blending families. When merging two families into one, there are always plenty of things to consider to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Like a lot of these things, there may be no single ‘right’ answer to the question of how to manage your finances when blending…

Important Things You Should Know About Credit Cards

Important Things You Should Know About Credit Cards Before You Apply? Searching for a credit card can be an overwhelming and confusing experience. A quick search on various credit card lenders and a comparison website will bring up an endless selection of credit cards all claiming to offer you the best. It’s important that you…

Bank Scams Are Causing Fraud To Increase

Bank Scams Are Causing Fraud To Increase Banking scams have hit the UKs financial industry; this has caused fraud rates to rise by 26%. The biggest contributor to this was remote fraud which has cost the UK consumer £168 million in 2015. Financial fraud is rising In 2015 £755 million was stolen from financial institutions…

Could The UK Be Faced With Another Banking Crisis?

Could The UK Be Faced With yet Another Banking IT Crisis? In 2012, the RBS Group was hit by a banking disaster due to computer system problems. Could similar complex business codes cause further disruptions? The 2012 banking IT failure The RBS Group, which includes the banks NatWest, Ulster Bank, Coutts, and Royal Bank of…

The Best Time of Day To Tackle Your To Do’s

The best times of the day to tackle your to do’s It’s a typical situation. You wrote out a to-do list, set out to tick everything off…and somehow despite your attempts at organization; you didn’t manage to get everything done. Maybe you didn’t even manage any of it. Sometimes it’s because something major came up,…

Quick Ways To Make Money Online

Quick ways to make some extra money online Whether you’re in full-time employment or job hunting, a student trying to raise some extra funds around studying or busy keeping your household running, earning some extra money quickly and easily can be tempting. The internet provides plenty of opportunities to make a little cash, either as…

Financial Planning Isn’t Only For The Future

Financial Planning Is Not Just For The Future When most people think about financial planning you immediately think about planning for the future, but what about the present? Planning for now or the future? There is no denying that planning for the future is essential. However, it is also imperative that you do not misjudge…