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Finance
Banks and other financial institutions
This is an International feature
Barclays Offshore - Barclays Wealth Offshore Bank Accounts
Alliance
& Leicester -
Premier Direct Current Account
Also see Alliance and
Leicester Commercial Bank
Business Account
and Alliance and Leicester Savings Account
Absolute Solutions - secured loans on a property - and remortgage
Lloyds
TSB (UK)
Also see Lloyds TSB Insurance and Lloyds TSB Bank
Account
and Lloyds TSB Student Account
Citibank (UK)
ING DIRECT (USA)
Barclays
Also see Barclaycard,
Barclaycard
Business
AND for business
start-up see the Clearly Business CD
Help stop card
fraud online with Barclaycard Trading Remotely
Terence P O'Halloran
Financial adviser well recommended by Zyra! Also, author of
insightful books such as in Hindsight
the Foresight Saga and If only
Politicians Had Brains!
Fee-Pac™ - Terence O'Halloran's innovative system for charging by fair and reasonable ways for a Professional Service. If you are in the financial advice business, you can Get Paid For What You Do Give Your Clients, by A Retainer Fee, Commissions or a Mixture.
Regency - if you live in a council house, Buy It! if you still can.
Nationwide
Mortgages
1-800 Auto Yes - car loans USA
Standard and Poor's - International credit rating agency - Well Done to them for being the first to downgrade the USA's credit rating when the country was desperately in debt and was becoming a bad credit risk!
UBS - International investment bank, as advertised at the Monaco Grand Prix
Fred
Hager
"The #1
performing investment newsletter in America"
Reuters Financial Research Reports
Tor FX
Foreign
currency exchange
Easy-Forex
Global currency
trading
TD
Waterhouse
So you can deal
in Stocks and Shares
Post Office International Payments
Cranwell Investments - was www.cranwell.co.uk
Cave & Sons Stockbroking and Investment Services / Independent Financial Advisors
Australian Investment Property Specialists – Oz House & Land Building your Australian investment property portfolio has never been easier. See how we can make your real estate investment strategy work. - was http://www.ozhouseland.com.au
Metro Bank
The first new UK bank for
donkeys' years
Bank on Dave
Well Done to Dave Fishwick, the heroic entrepreneur who is making a good job of challenging the oldfashioned unfair way Banks in the UK have been mistreating
customers and the economy in general. Dave has set up a new Bank in Burnley so folks can deposit money and get a sensible interest rate, and other folks can borrow money at a sensible rate. Well Done!
www.Immunis.co.uk (was www.immunis.co.uk) - Offshore tax consultancy - structuring people's offshore affairs to mitigate against tax as well as other diverse offshore matters as offshore banks, insurance companies, second passports as well as Internet gaming.
Aberdeen Asset Management - Sponsors of The Boat Race 2002
ShareOracle (awin)
Norwich & Peterborough - also www.npbs.co.uk
B2 (was http://www.b2.com)
Bradford & Bingley 0800 113333 UK
Get My Quote - not to be confused with Get My Goat
Lexington
Law
"Improve
your credit rating USA only"
ThinkBanking - thinkbanking is a provider of managed bank accounts, not a bank.
Cardservice
International
So YOUR
business can now accept credit cards
The following links are Dead, at least for now, and form an ossuary of places whose affiliate program has gone:
ING
DIRECT
Savings
accounts
Liverpool Victoria
Unsecured Loans
The One
Account
Mortgage Management
First Plus Financial Group - for home owners, not tenants
West Bromwich Building Society
Capital One Base Beater Savings Account
My Future Finance Equity Release
My Future Finance Investment Bond
My Future Finance Pension Transfer
Green
Light Finance
"This product is a HP
facility for customers with impaired credit history looking to
purchase a quality car"
Tradetrek
"Wall
Street tools made easy for EVERYONE"
Northern Rock
SmartMoney
Select
"Stay
ahead of the curve"
John
Lewis Card
Even though John
Lewis shops
are still on the go!
The preceding is a list of places whose affiliate program has gone
Look For Finance - was http://www.lookfinance.com
Provides research banking service information, Personal finance
advice and financial planning tips and news.
Finance Guaranteed.net - was www.financeguaranteed.net - domain apparently lost.
Money-Market.net - was www.money-market.net
For UK credit Cards, Mortgages, Loans, Life Insurance, Bad Credit,
Debt Help and More!
app.co.uk (was previously a financial institution but now (2006/04) the domain has been lost)
Also see the feature on Tax Avoidance and Tax Havens
Also note the difference
between tax avoidance and tax evasion
Xyroth has commented that Pensions are a form of insurance against poverty in old age. For more info on this see Xyroth's Pensions Page
There's a new finance site which might show some promise: Stop Loss Traders
Also see help on debt at the Sterling Trust - was www.sterlingtrust.org.uk: "We are a relatively new debt help charity based in the UK. Our aim is to empower people to manage their own unsecured debts by way of the online system we have developed".
If you have a US Dollar account and you don't live in the USA, it's worth knowing that when you move money from one place to another, it matters where it is routed! Banks understand this, and you can save yourself from a lot of political problems by avoiding money transfer going via the USA
A good guide to investments can be found in Hindsight the Foresight Saga
Investing in stocks and shares is risky, but here's something which will always have some value: A single framed share certificate in a company of your choice. Interesting, collectable talking-point: Framed Share
also see BANKS, Loans, Credit Cards, Current Accounts, and Savings Accounts