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Plans Put Forward To Lift UK Mortgage Lending
Mortgage lenders have drawn up a plan to help kick-start the mortgage market amid falling house prices and a squeeze on the availability of home loans. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) have put forward a plan to free up UK banks and building societies to offer new home loans. It wants the Bank of England to guarantee a market in mortgage-backed...
200 Percent Increase in Phishing Incidents During the First Quarter of 2008
APACS, the UK payments association, has published figures showing a 200 percent increase in the number of phishing attacks in the UK. During the period January to March 2008 there were 10,000 reported incidents a new record. Phishing is the name given to false emails that claim to be from banks and other financial institutions but are actually sent...