A coalition of London campaigners sets out five demands for change to make renting privately a sustainable tenure As letting agents grow in prominence on our high streets, we need to act fast to protect tenants from the ignorance and opportunism that…
THE taxpayer-owned bank said they would be axing 1400 posts across the UK – with 700 staff affected at the showpiece Gogarburn building in Edinburgh.
HUNDREDS of RBS staff in Scotland lost their jobs yesterday – two days after fatcat bosses at …
Trading volumes have been low this week, but core and peripheral ABS spreads are continuing to tighten. "There’s still just a very positive tone in risk assets across the board," an ABS trader in London told EuroWeek Structured Finance….
The first UK prime residential mortgage securitisation to emerge this year — West Bromwich Building Society’s Kenrick No 2 — was welcomed with open arms by London-based professionals this week, who predicted solid demand for the notes…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s aggressive expansion in Europe is striking fear into its rivals, writes David Rothnie. As if the heads of Europe�s banks did not have enough on their minds, they now have a resurgent Bank of America Merrill …
Carney’s stock is high – while the UK and the eurozone remain in, or around, recessions, Canadian GDP is growing at 1.7 per cent year on year, and its growth has outperformed the US economy both during and post the financial crisis. Inflati…
THE manager of the 2.7 billion Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has taken issue with the "disdain" shown by stock market players to Chinese equities in recent times.
James Anderson has also criticised the "extreme impatience" of …
Secured lending in April has broken through the £40m barrier for the first time in three years, the Secured Loan Index from Loans Warehouse revealed.
And the data showed a 73% monthly, year-on-year increase and more than double the amount of le…
THIS announcement is a substantial blow for the employment market in Edinburgh and Scotland because of the numbers involved and in the sense that, to date, significant job losses at RBS have been in the investment banking subsidiaries elsewhere and not…
Rents have increased in every region across England and Wales for the first time in 18 months, data suggests
Tenants are facing further pressure on their finances as rents have increased in every region across England and Wales for the first time in 1…