A time for brokers to stand up for themselves. Personal Touch Financial Services in the U.K. is going to put up a ‘Rogues Gallery’ on their website in order to criticise lenders who ... Continue reading
How to beat a recession. Simple ways to avoid the pinch. I think the point has been reached, certainly from public sentiment, where we are seeing more negative news than positive news, the see... Continue reading
Why Brokers will prosper and why one reporter is full of ‘Dan White’ Recently banks have been increasing the rates they charge clients and stating that they will (for the near future) concentrate on their... Continue reading
The ‘Carry Trade’ or ‘Stoozing crack-smoker style’ ‘Crack-addict stoozing’ or ‘stoozing on steriods’ is one way to describe the Carry Trade. It’s important at this point to realise that ... Continue reading
Questions to ask a Mortgage Broker With the Irish Property Market entering a new phase it will be vital, if you are in the market already or planning to enter it, that yo... Continue reading
Lose your collusion… Irish Banks show just how little they care. As George Bush once said ‘Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…shame…well you’re not gonna fool me twice’. Banks however have done... Continue reading
Islamic Finance, Ireland is turning truly cosmopolitan Islamic finance in Ireland? What is it all about? Well before I go into it today’s post will start with condolences, you see I was mean... Continue reading
Ulsterbank and First Active pinch on the back of RBOS woes. This week Ulsterbank again made news in announcing that they were ‘leaving the broker market’ as of the end of May 2008. From the persp... Continue reading
Will we get a rate reduction? Not if the ECB does it’s job we won’t. I have seen articles in the news and economists from large lending institutions are saying they believe we will see two rate reductions... Continue reading
Auction Rate Bond Market feels the pinch There has been unforseen intervention by the US Fed in the American markets, however there is still a domino effect, today we saw that ... Continue reading