Over 20 million Britons lend money to family and friends, but just half of them are repaid.

A new bond offering a fixed rate of 6.45 per cent has been launched by Newcastle Building Society.

Advice on how to make money from a second home has been given by the Times.

Finance website Moneysupermarket.com has berated building societies for not passing on the benefits of the base rate cut to customers.

Anyone considering declaring themselves bankrupt should carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages.

AXA Life has warned women that they need to get financial protection.

The savings rate for M&S's variable cash individual savings account (ISA) has been changed.

The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.

Completed conformance testing ensures Instinet's participation from MTF's launch.

The European Commission said it intends to make proposals, including standardization and the need for a central clearing counterparty, to control risks in the $60 trillion credit derivatives market, seen as one of the causes of the worst financial crisis

ACTING President, Rupiah Banda, has invited Iranian investors to consider partnering with Zambians in the various business opportunities available locally and help better the lives of the people.

Significant, diverse investment opportunities are springing up across Africa, where change is occurring at a faster pace than many realize, says a prominent U.S. investment banker.

The Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC), the investment agency of government, has announced that it would embark on a decentralization exercise throughout the country.

Global stocks slide further yesterday, with Merrill Lynch & Co. and Citi Group reporting losses in their financials.

THE rand slumped to its lowest levels against the dollar and sterling since the end of 2001 yesterday - and was at its weakest yet against the trade-weighted basket of currencies - as foreign investors quit riskier assets and bought

A pharmaceutical factory, producing the anti-retroviral drugs that prolong the lives of people infected by the HIV virus, will be in production in Mozambique by 2010, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva promised in Maputo on Friday.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday reiterated his call for Brazilian businesses to invest in Mozambique.

Old Mutual Kenya has signed a partnership deal with a mobile money transfer service provider as its move to penetrate the mass market gets into top gear.

DFCU Bank has launched a loan facility to support small-and-medium entrepreses (SMEs).

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has endorsed the Access Bank subsidiary in the UK (The Access Bank UK Ltd) office in the United Kingdom, saying that the bank would go places given its pedigree