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The Savvy Scot

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Viewing posts tagged with: credit

How to Start Investigating Financial Crimes

By Pauline

In recent years, the FBI has increased its focus on investigating financial crimes. These crimes, which can include insider trading, corruption and creating off-books accounting schemes, cause significant damage to individuals and to the U.S. economy as a whole. Earning a certificate that qualifies you to investigate financial crime (click here to explore programs) is… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: credit, credit card, crime, debt, financial crime, fraud, identity theft

How Interest from Debt Is Killing Your Financial Status

By Pauline

  The below article outlines the impact of interest on credit card debt and utilises data from Australia. To learn more about finances check out Low Income Loans Australia, a personal finance site which helps low income earners with non-profit and government initiatives with regard to money matters. According to a recent study, Australians are… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: consolidate, credit, credit card, credit score, debt, interest, loans, payment

Have you ever been denied a credit card?

By Pauline

    As the recession begins to ease up around the UK, more and more people are turning to credit cards as an easy option for the instant cash fix they need to level out their finances. With New Year’s Resolutions seeming like a distant memory, the bid to make yourself a savvy spender may… Read more

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: credit, credit card, denied

The Guide to Borrowing

By Pauline

Cash or no cash

  For all of us who struggle with the confusing world of finance, and in particular the jargon, help is finally at hand! Loan broker giant Freedom Finance has compiled a fantastic little e-book created simply to answer all of our credit queries and borrowing questions. And guess what? It’s absolutely FREE! This guide covers… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: borrow, credit, guide, insecured, loan, Money, rating, score, secured, tips

Bad Credit Car Loans: Not as difficult as You Might Think

By Pauline

  Everyone has serious financial decisions to make in life. Some people come unstuck when making them; it has certainly happened in the property market recently. You can get plenty of advice on the subject of finance but not everyone listens. Supposed experts did not see the last financial crisis coming and many people suffered… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: car, credit, debt, Finance, lease, loan, rent

How to save money this New Year

By Pauline

  January is traditionally a month in which most of us are looking to cut-back and clear the debt we’ve accrued over the festive period. It’s a great time to think about where we went wrong in regard to finance the year before and how to put those faults right this year. Budget The first… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: budget, credit, debt, gaming, interest rate, Money, New Year, plan, save, saving

Living below your means: it is harder than it sounds

By Pauline

Living below your means

  When someone says that you should try “living below your means,” most of us immediately think that we need to simply stop spending money, buy things only on sale, and put away quite a bit while trying to live just above the poverty line. The fact of the matter is, that isn’t exactly the… Read more

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: Balance, budget, cash, credit, credit card, debit, debt, Money, save

Are you ready to be a landlord?

By Pauline

ready to be a landlord

At the moment, I have a rental property in Surrey. I had no idea things would turn out this way, you can say I became a landlady by accident. I was living there, but working a job I hated, and I really wanted to do something else with my life. So I made one of… Read more

Filed Under: Personal Finance Tagged With: bank, Banking, buy to let, credit, debt, landlord, leverage, mortgage

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