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Pockit announces exclusive 5% cashback at over 70,000 hotels with HotelStayUK

Market leading prepaid MasterCard® provider, Pockit announces exclusive 5% cashback for all Pockit cardholders on hotels and short breaks with HotelStayUK. Prepaid MasterCard® provider, Pockit has announced a new exclusive cashback for Pockit prepaid cardholders on top of its existing partner offers. Pockit has teamed up with HotelStayUK, the UK’s only hotel ...

Standard Life Teams Up With Legacy Asset Systems To Support Asset Migration To Standard Life Wrap

Standard Life, a market leading platform provider, has teamed up with Legacy Asset Systems to support advisers migrating assets to the Standard Life Wrap. With the agreement, preferential terms will be offered to Standard Life Wrap firms signing up to the services offered by Legacy Asset Systems. Legacy Asset Systems ...

Northern Rock Honoured For Its Community Service

Northern Rock has announced that it was commended in the Mortgage Finance Gazette Awards for its dedication to community service. The honours were given just six months after Northern Rock was heralded among the most responsible businesses in the UK. After receiving Business in the Community's (BITC) national Big Tick for ...

Northern Rock Video Investigates Money Worries

Northern Rock's latest video has put consumers in the spotlight as they reveal that by far their biggest money worry is paying the mortgage each month. The bank took to the streets to find out what concerns people most about their finances, and the overwhelming majority of consumers confirmed their mortgage ...

Prudential Reveals Brits Hiding £4.6 Billion From Their Partners In Secret Saving Stashes

Prudential has revealed that fifteen per cent of Britons over the age of 40 and living with their partner choose to keep some or all of their savings hidden from their other halves. The survey, which examines couples' attitudes to financial planning, was conducted among savers over the age of 40 ...

Pioneer Services to Give Away $1,000 and Apple iPads® to Eight Lucky Service Members

Pioneer Services will make this holiday season one to remember for eight service members and their families thanks to the Mega Merry Giveaway, a sweepstakes just for active-duty or career-retired service members and their spouses. There will be four winners of $1,000 and four iPad winners—one winner of each from each ...

Northern Rock Reveals Its Mortgage Could Be Beneficial To 8 Out Of 10 Borrowers

Northern Rock has revealed that many UK mortgage borrowers coming to the end of their fixed rate deal could be better off if they took a mortgage with Northern Rock*, even if they only have 20% equity. Across the market, almost 200,000 of these consumers are due to come to the ...

Experian To Create And Manage New Reference Database For The Payments Council

Experian, the global information services company, has been appointed by the Payments Council to create and maintain an industry database of corporate customers' payment information. The central biller database, which will improve the accuracy of payments made using online and telephone banking, is scheduled to go live in late 2012. Experian ...

Experian Reveals Identity And Fraud Solutions For The Insurance Sector

Experian, a leading global information services company, has announced its solution to the growing illegal business of insurance fraud, suggesting that insurers use online tools and data analysis technology instead of traditional, error-prone methods. Fraud in the UK is a growing billion-pound illegal business with fraudsters finding new and inventive ways ...

Prudential Reveals Research On The Importance Of Women’s Retirement Plans

Prudential has revealed that nearly half (46 per cent) of women over the age of 40 who live with a partner have no pension of their own, according to new research into couples' attitudes to retirement. The extent of women's reliance on a partner's pension and the State is not the only ...

Standard Life Reveals Losing A Loved One Is Greatest Fear In Retirement

Standard Life has revealed that a third (32 per cent) of retired Britons declared that losing a partner, loved one or close friend is their greatest fear in retirement. The savings and investment specialist Standard Life is using the research to encourage the public to consider their estate planning requirements, including the ...

Standard Life Announces That Economic Climate Could Force Retirement Rethink

Standard Life, the savings and investment specialist, has published new insight that suggests that the UK could be heading towards a perfect retirement storm; one in five (21%) of 45-65 year-olds who have financial plans in place to provide for their long term future no longer feel that their financial ...

Northern Rock Launches Competitive New Fixed Rate Cash e-ISAs

Northern Rock has launched three new online issues of its Fixed Rate Cash e-ISA to complement its competitive portfolio of internet-based savings accounts. The e-ISA offers those who prefer to operate their accounts via the internet an online option for their tax-free savings. The e-ISA is a cash ISA set at a ...

Standard Life Reveals Inflation Can Reduce A Retiree’s Purchasing Power By 68%

Standard Life, the savings and investment specialist, has warned that the effects of inflation can seriously damage one's retirement wealth. New data released today shows that a 90-year-old who retired in 1981, when petrol cost 35p a litre, would have seen the purchasing power of a £10,000-a-year level pension income ...

Standard Life Plc Joins Top 10% Of Companies In The World

Standard Life plc is pleased to announce it has earned a place in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the first time, joining the ranks of the top 10% of sustainable companies in world. This placement in the Index reflects a strong and steady increase in Standard Life's sustainability ...

Experian Data Shows Identity Fraud Attempts Double In First Half Of 2011

Experian, the global information services company, has released its latest Fraud Index which reveals that identity fraud attempts doubled in the first half of 2011, compared to Q4 in 2010. This pushed up the overall level of application fraud attempted against UK financial services firms for the third successive quarter. ...

Northern Rock Staff Star In Latest Campaign To Help Bring Mortgages To Life

Northern Rock has placed its own staff in a starring role in its new mortgage campaign. The new campaign aims to build on the success of the helpful video guides available on its award winning mortgages website. Two customer service agents from the lender's Tyneside call centre are the first to ...

Prudential Reports Britons Favour Spending On Holidays Over Saving For Retirement

Prudential has revealed that nearly three million working age adults will prioritise going on holiday over continuing to save for their retirement as their finances are squeezed. The survey asked non-retired adults in the UK to outline their spending priorities when faced with a reduction in monthly expenditure as incomes are ...

Northern Rock Launches New eBond Issues

Northern Rock has launched two new issues of its new online fixed rate e-bond account, providing competitive interest rates for those savers who wish to operate their accounts online. e-bond (issues 18 and 19) will are available now. With a minimum deposit of just £1, customers can benefit from a competitive ...

Prudential Reveals More Than A Third Put Their Pension Savings On Hold

Prudential has revealed new research which shows more than a third (35 per cent) of British adults who are yet to retire have stopped paying into their pension pots. The results of the nationwide study show that one in three (33 per cent) of those who have put pension payments on ...

Leading Payday Loan Company Implements New And Improved Induction Plan

Payday Express, a UK provider of payday loans online, has announced the implementation of a new and improved staff induction plan. The move was made to ensure that staff training and development remains high on the agenda for Payday Express, a business that prides itself on understanding the value of ensuring all ...

Exciting office expansion planned for Payday Express

Provider of payday loans online, Payday Express, has announced plans to expand its current office space, in line with plans to grow the business with the arrival of 17 new starters in February. The payday loan company moved to its current location from smaller premises in April 2011, choosing offices that had the ...

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