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Family Building Society has brought back its Windfall Bond savings account which gives those with £10,000 a better chance at winning £50,000 than the Premium Bonds draw. But there is also the possibility no one could end up winning, unlike with NS&I’s Premium Bonds draw that doles out prizes each …

The writer has served as president of the Inter-American Development Bank since 2005. He retires this month Ten years ago, I proposed that the 2010s could be the decade of Latin America and the Caribbean. I was not alone in this conviction. Thanks to earlier reforms, the region weathered the …

Switching is something many of us put off, with a third of customers sticking with the same old bank we opened our first account with, despite bad service, hefty fees and little reward for our loyalty.  But moving to a better deal could help get your finances back on track …

I own shares in Tesla and am considering buying more if its share issue goes ahead, I also previously had some in Apple and am thinking about buying back into it. I understand that both have just had a stock split and that this is aimed at making it easier …

Mortgage borrowers have been dealt another blow after two major banks heavily restricted how much they will lend to homebuyers.  The High Street giants have introduced new caps on loan sizes. Barclays has limited loans to just 4.49 times someone’s income – down from five-and-a-half times previously.  Borrowers were given …

Mortgage borrowers have been dealt another blow after two major banks heavily restricted how much they will lend to homebuyers.  The High Street giants have introduced new caps on loan sizes. Barclays has limited loans to just 4.49 times someone’s income – down from five-and-a-half times previously.  Borrowers were given …

Brexit talks resume this Tuesday as the EU and the UK enter the final phase of negotiations that both sides accept need to be wrapped up by the end of October if a deal is to be in place for when the post-Brexit transition period expires at the end of …

As dedicated followers of fashion, European central bankers have also been following the intellectual trends set by others. When inflation targeting was in vogue in the 1990s, the European Central Bank adopted the new regime and became a paid-up subscriber to the economic theory that lay behind it. Inflation targeting …

The writer is chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management The new framework for US monetary policy announced at the Jackson Hole symposium in August is a watershed event, for both the practice of macroeconomic policy, and the theory that lies behind it. With markets beginning to doubt whether the Federal Reserve …

The euro’s rapid rise in recent months has set alarm bells ringing at the European Central Bank, with its policymakers worrying that the currency’s strength is holding back the bloc’s economy and dragging down prices. After ECB officials voiced those concerns last week, the euro retreated after briefly touching a …