Why is it called ‘offshore’ banking ? The term ‘offshore’ originally comes  from the Channel Islands which operate some of the most well known and respected offshore banking facilities in the World. Jersey and Guernsey are ‘offshore’ from the rest of the UK mainland. Many offshore tax havens are island nations, Barbadoa, Antigua and Belize being obvious examples. However, an offshore bank doesn’t actually need to be physically located ‘offshore’. Switzerland is possibly the [...]

A Bridging Loan (U.K) or a Bridge Loan (U.S) means exactly the same thing. Just different terminolgy, depending on which side of the pond you are on. When an individual homeowner or a business finds itself needing money and has a shortfall of cash between where they need to get to, a bridging loan helps to bridge over the shortfall.       A Bridging Loan can be used for any purpose within reason like [...]

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Finding your Niche Market is probably the single first important thing you need to do when looking to make money online from your web venture. Most people seriously heading into this area will know how competitive it is. After all everybody wants to work from home these days. There is a good chance that if you’re reading this you will have had some experience at least , of doing business online in the past. Many [...]

Ofgem has ruled that UK Energy Consumers must be informed if energy bills will increase, at least 30 days in advance. Before this ruling, energy suppliers were allowed to tell consumers 65 days AFTER the price rises. This change came into effect as of yesterday.                     The 65-day statutory deadline was supposed to be in place so people were made aware prices had changed, rather than [...]

Car Sharing has been around in one form or another for about 60 years. However in the past few years it has really taken off. For a number of obvious reasons really. Firstly the cost of fuel as we all know is going through the roof, the rising cost of oil seems to know no limits and is likely to get worse for years to come.   Alternative hybrid cars and ‘green cars’ have been [...]

Every home has books in it. Some greatly loved and re-read from time to time, others are unwanted. Books are a great passion for most of us, a luxury for a few and an absolute necessity if studying for exams, or doing research. A fantastic site is in operation called Read It Swap It         Read It Swap It allows you to join and list for FREE your unwanted books. These books [...]