There are people looking overseas. The Government has pulled back, but there is still nervousness among corporates

THERE are few signs of the global credit crunch putting the brakes on deal activity among Scottish companies this year, according to Scotland's biggest bank.

A retired van driver who cleverly played Capital One's cheque system for two years to supplement his pension has finally been caught out

Borrowers can get 15 months interest free on balance transfers and 0% on purchases with a new credit card from Egg

Nationwide will raise some of its loan rates higher than the interest on its credit card later this week. And it's not alone.

Credit card companies have tried to hound almost 1.8m responsible customers out of their businesses in the name of profit-hunting

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Glenbrook's Jim Salters will be attending the Payments 2008 conference being held this coming week - May 18-21 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand.

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The stark truth about managing our money these days is that we are mostly on our own.Few employers want us around for 40 years, so our income is likely to have ups and downs and disappear altogether for brief periods

A bottom-up approach to investing where investment decisions are taken on the basis of evaluating a company on its merits is a good strategy.

Three years ago, the finance minister surprised the business world by introducing a new chapter - fringe benefit tax in the Indian tax legislation.

Markets were abuzz this week with reports that the Federal Reserve is contemplating ways to defuse asset bubbles before they pop. Nice try.

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On May 19 the Bulgarian National Bank ( BNB ) will put in circulation a new commemorative coin with partial gold cover. The coin "Seft III" is part of the series "The Treasures of Bulgaria". A press conference is held

The State Agency for National Security (SANS) is conducting a checkup of the rumors about problems with First Investment Bank ( FIB ), as announced Friday by Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev. Stanishev added that the checkup has been intiated at

As of today inflation is one of the greatest problems in Ukraine, the president of the European bank for Reconstruction and Development Jean Lemer has declared.He has informed on it at opening of an investment forum in Kiev.Also he has

George Bush's administration has congratulated Ukraine on the introduction into the World Trade Organization."The government of the USA congratulates the Ukraine which has become on May, 16th by a member of the WTO", - is spoken in the application of

The Ukrainian government namereno to deliver on industrial production manufacturing of biofuel from a special kind of seaweed, Julia Timoshenko has declared on meeting in Kiev the prime minister of the country."We with scientists have developed today the program which

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