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One of the Britain’s most generous savings products has been pulled abruptly from the market by the state-run National Savings & Investments (NS&I) after only 24 days amid complaints from rival banks and building societies.
Nationwide Building Society, the country's largest mutual, has accused the Government of distorting the savings market and damaging private sector lenders. Graham Beale, chief executive, said: "Government-owned institutions...
Savers chasing the best deal for their cash can now earn almost as much interest on instant access as from locking into a one-year fixed rate. The premium for tying up cash in a one-year bond has shrunk to its lowest since the...
A former policeman and an insurance company manager who funded a lavish lifestyle with money obtained from a £1.4m fraud, have been jailed. John Taylor, 35, and Stephen Spellacy, 36, who served with Humberside Police, admitted...
The shadow of unfair competition has loomed over the retail banking market since the nationalisation of Northern Rock. But could the biggest threat really come from old Ernie and his friends at National Savings and Investments
ALAMY Set apart: Skipton offers 5.35 per cent on its fixedrate bond The sharp rise in the rate of inflation announced this week spells potentially bad news for millions of savers. If you fix at the moment, you can still get...
So much for cross-platform PDC Silverlight 4.0 was the big hit at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) this week. "I can see that Silverlight is the future of Windows client development" one attendee told me.…
Norwegian health authorities said Friday they have discovered a potentially significant mutation in the H1N1 influenza strain that could be responsible for causing the severest symptoms among those infected.
Posted by Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer A few years ago rivals mocked Jonney Shih, chairman of Asustek, and his purse-size laptop computers. But the biggest netbook maker, with 38% of the market, is another Taiwanese tech...
By Steven Burke, ChannelWeb One of the highlights of Everything Channel's XChange Tech Innovators conference in Las Vegas this week was all the solution provider buzz and activity around cloud computing. The cloud frenzy at...
