RSA, the world’s leading insurance company which currently has an audacious £5 billion cash bid out for part of the Aviva Group, has launched a new car insurance product. The package is called RSA echoice Car Insurance and it has been launched for online users only. RSA are promoting it as a new pick and [...]

Spending on debit and credit cards increased by nearly 10% in July, compared with this time last year. The year-on-year figures for the summer month of July’s debit and credit cards spending were released by the Barclaycard Spending Index and show an upward trend of 9.9%. Although an indication of the use of plastic in [...]

Northern Rock may well be better known for its history in the mortgage business, but it has a whole raft of products on offer to customers, including a just launched Issue 2 of the Little Rock Fixed Rate Bond. Its mortgage business aside, Northern Rock has been a major player in the children’s savings bond [...]

Debt loans are becoming increasingly important as companies like Debt Free Direct are warning consumers that personal insolvencies have increased 5% year-on-year. The company Debt Free Direct has issued a warning to consumers to seek debt advice as soon as they can once they feel that their personal finances are getting out of control. And [...]

A recent study from the Lloyds TSB bank has revealed that with the student loans now causing debt per student of around £23,000 each, some 68% of those attending higher education are having to take jobs to fund their courses and living expenses. Together, UK students have earnt around £4 billion a year to counteract [...]

Aviva’s cheap life insurance business is not so attractive to RSA. RSA is on the hunt for Aviva’s non life insurance business, but it’s no deal as the Board of the Norwich Union (as it was formerly known) say think again. The RSA bid for Aviva’s non life insurance business is worth around £5 billion [...]