Tesco Bank has launched a record-low mortgage deal, but only for those who can afford a deposit of at least 40 per cent of the value of the property, as well as a £995 fee. The two-year deal offers a rate of just 1.99 per cent and is fixed until the end of 2014. Tesco [...]
Retailer Tesco is launching mortgage products through Tesco Bank, allowing Tesco Clubcard holders to earn points on repayments. It is offering mainly fixed-rate deals, with interest rates ranging from 3.19 per cent to 5.09 per cent and a minimum deposit of 20 per cent. With many fixed-rate deals currently offering interest rates of below 3 [...]
Nearly a third of couples remain financially single despite living together, new research has found. A study by Tesco Bank found 29% of couples in the UK are unwilling to pool their earnings into a joint account. The research also found that it takes an average of two years before couples are happy to share [...]
Supermarket giant Tesco has taken the next step in its quest to become a bank by signing up Fiserv. US-based Fiserv provides information management and electronic commerce systems to the financial services industry. Tesco said Fiserv will assist it in becoming a full-service bank by providing account information and banking transactions for Tesco Bank customers. [...]
Tesco Bank has announced today it is to create 1,000 new jobs in Newcastle next year. The news follows Tesco Bank’s insurance partnership with Fortis UK, with the joint venture forming a new motor and household insurance company. The move is part of the supermarket giant’s plan to step up its presence in the banking [...]
Supermarket finance is set to make significant gains in market share over the coming months, lovemoney.com said this week. The financial advice site made the claim after Tesco Personal Finance re-branded as Tesco Bank. Ed Bowsher, lovemoney.com’s head of personal finance, said the renaming signals the beginning of a marketing offensive by Tesco on financial [...]
Supermarket giant Tesco has announced a pre-tax profit of £3.13 billion – the highest ever full-year earnings reported by a UK retailer. The UK‘s largest supermarket, with a 30% share of the market, said the current year had started “solid” with like-for-like sales (stripping out petrol) in the past six weeks rose by 3.4%. The [...]
Gender directive could slash men’s annuity payouts
The EU Gender Directive, which came into force today, could see men losing up to £10,000 from their annuity payouts, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the new rules insurers are no longer allowed to take gender into account when setting annuity rates and premiums on insurance products. Men previously enjoyed higher annuity rates than [...]
Home rental costs down in November
The cost of renting a house in England and Wales fell by 0.4 per cent in November, its first dip since March, according to a survey by LSL Property Services. Average rent was £741m during the month, returning to the level seen in September. However, it was 3.4 per higher than in November last year. [...]
Lloyds TSB halts sale of packaged accounts in branches
Lloyds TSB will stop selling packaged account in its branches from 1 January 2013, until its sales procedures are brought into line with those operated by sister bank The Halifax. Lloyds TSB is one of the main providers of packaged accounts in Britain, with around one in three of its customers choosing to pay fees [...]
Housing market recovery to continue next year
Recent improvements in the housing market should continue into next year, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Gross lending is estimated to have increased to £12.9 billion in November, helped by the Funding for Lending scheme which provides banks and building societies with lower-cost funding, which they are then supposed to pass on [...]
Newcastle Building Society exits interest-only mortgages
Newcastle Building Society has stopped offering interest-only mortgages to new borrowers, following the lead of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Nationwide, Co-operative bank and Coventry Building Society. The decision will not affect existing Newcastle customers and applications for interest-only mortgages received before 14 December will still be processed. Prior to the credit crunch, interest-only mortgages [...]
Less than half of Brits considered creditworthy
Fifty-seven per cent of UK adults are at risk of having an application for credit turned down by a mainstream lender according to a new report. The ‘Mind the Credit Gap‘ report commissioned by aqua credit cards suggests that even people with a good credit rating and earning more than £50,000 could have a credit [...]
Monthly incomes £22 lower in 2012
The average monthly income of UK households fell by £22 in real terms compared with last year, according to a survey carried out for the Bank of England (BoE) by NMG Consulting. People on lower incomes have seen their income eroded more than higher earners and households still have high levels of debt the BoE [...]
Savers dig deep to fund Christmas
New research from the Halifax suggests that savers are funding their Christmas spending with money set aside for other purposes. Thirty-seven per cent of 2,138 savers surveyed by the bank at the end of November had withdrawn savings in the last three months. The average amount withdrawn was £1,186, more than double the average savings [...]
Financial data at risk from unsafe passwords
According to a survey by the Payments Council the problem of having to remember a different password for several accounts means that many internet users are compromising the security of their financial data. Internet users have 22 password-protected accounts on average and many use the same log-in details for more than one account, even though [...]
Wonga launches Paylater loans on retailer website
Payday loan company Wonga has launched a new Paylater service on furniture firm Cotswold Company’s website. The service, which allows customers to “buy now, pay later” will be introduced on other retailers’ sites in the near future. Although the Paylater branding is similar to Wonga’s, the Wonga name only appears in the small print. A [...]
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