Customers have provided a ray of sunshine for Metro Bank as the embattled business topped official satisfaction ratings. Metro was joint top with First Direct, with 82% of personal British customers saying they would recommend the banks to their family and friends. Metro has seen its share price nosedive...

Age UK faces further criticism on insurance deals

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Four Seasons considers selling off care homes amid 'cash crunch'

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Sorry, was not quite sure where to put this!

Anyway, been a long time since I have been on here. Currently still waiting on PPI claims being dealt with by the Ombudsman, has been more than 2 years now for one of them!! so nothing to tell there.

Brief history of where I was...

Anyone wanting to buy a powerful vacuum cleaner has only ten days left to buy one - following new EU rules that come in next month.
From 1 September, companies in the EU will be banned from making or importing vacuum cleaners above 1600...

Hi I have a few quetions about defaults and settlement.

If an account is defaulted will it help my creit rating to pay them off.
If I pay them off will it be market settled or satisfied or are they the same.

If I makeca low full and final does it show as partially settled...

I really do!

My husband and I have substantial dept due to having 2 babies very close together for the past 4 years we have been making token payments to our creditors.

We now find that 2014 seems to be treating us well (well, better!) financially and have started making plans...

Sorry, I know this is an old thread. I have exactly the same issue though - well the details are slightly different but the end result is the same- no mortgage due to BG ruining my credit file.

So far I have tried writing to the 'Minder Correspondence' address that I got from Experian....

Britain's credit rating downgraded from AAA to Aa1

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 23rd February 2013 15:07.

*The Government’s economic strategy has been dealt a serious blow after a leading credit ratings agency downgraded UK debt on its expectation that......

how agency snoops spoil our credit ratings with duff information

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 8th August 2012 09:28.

Every day, thousands of Britons are turned down for loans and mortgages on the basis of the records held on them by the three big credit agencies.......

Hello All

Gosh where do I start??!! I received a letter from Link Financial Outsourcing today telling me someone tried to apply for credit in my name blah blah blah. My gut instinct was to ignore it and use my old friend google first and sure enough I found your forum.

I have...

This isn't really a rant, but I wasn't sure where else to post it - and it does involve family...

I just had a phone call from a family member telling me that she's opened a new bank account (that she doesn't want OH to know about) and put my address down as correspondence address so that...

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Let's have a heated debate!

Hello!

I've been thinking this lately and wonder what others think ...

With all the propaganda about the great importance of maintaining a good credit rating — in newspaper...

Best Before

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 14th September 2011 17:37.

French bank ratings downgraded ---Quote (Originally by 5corpio)--- * Best Before * French bank ratings downgraded ...

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My barclay debt has been sold to lowells in the last week and I was wondering what do you think the lowest offer they would take to clear the balance and remove the defaults.

The debts are all unenforcable credit cards and the reason I would like to get rid of the defaults is they are starting...