October 2007 Finance News Archive

• Are you using your credit card to gamble online? [31.10.07]
  Online gambling has become huge in the UK over recent years, with many betting enthusiasts doing everything from playing the lottery and betting on the horses online to playing online bingo and trying their hand at online poker or slot machines.
• 5000 Norwich Union customers received letters about critical illness insurance policies [31.10.07]
  In an attempt to determine whether insurance customers with critical illness coverage withheld information that could affect their policy, Norwich Union, a leading insurance company in the UK, recently contacted 5000 of its customers with such policies.
• Consumers more fond of term life insurance [26.10.07]
  Life insurance is a very popular and beneficial form of insurance cover, and there are two types of life insurance that are available, which are term life insurance and whole of life insurance.
• Loan company banned from running ad [24.10.07]
  A secured UK loan company has been told by advertising regulators that it cannot run its television advertise in its current format after a number of complaints were received from consumers.
• Campaign to get firms to help employees manage their finances [23.10.07]
  Over recent years many consumers in the UK have found it increasingly difficult to manage their finances, and high levels of consumers debt, rising interest rates, and problems in the financial markets have all contributed to these difficulties.