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		<title>London&#8217;s role as the Hong King of Europe is drawing to a close.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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According to Thomas Huertas, the banking director at the U.K.&#8217;s Financial Services Authority, London&#8217;s role as the European Union (EU) equivalent to Hong Kong as a self-regulating financial center, is drawing to a close. 
The group of 27 European states that comprise the EU plans to centralize oversight of markets in the wake of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed signals as house prices rise again in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to data released by the Halifax Building Society, property prices increased by more than one percent. Halifax, one of the UK&#8217;s leading building societies also reduced  their forecast reduced how far they reckoned property values would fall in the remaining part of 2009. Their updated prediction is that house prices will fall by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compare the best banks for the best interest rates</title>
		<link>http://www.financial-news.org.uk/compare-the-best-banks-for-the-best-interest-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t that long ago that if you went to your bank of building society looking to earn some interest on your deposit account, all you would get was a blank expression. A sign that things are getting better in the UK economy in general and banks and building societies in particular is that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery continues in the increasing shadow of UK political uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.financial-news.org.uk/recovery-continues-in-the-increasing-shadow-of-uk-political-uncertainty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Halifax Building Society, now part of the Lloyds Banking Group UK announced an increase of around 2.5% in house prices for despite the fact that purchasing activity still remains lower than expected. 
However encouragement can be taken from the fact that property prices did increase for the first time in three months, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halifax International launches Expat Focus website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halifax International has launched a new, informative Expat Focus website www.halifax-international-expats.com, designed to enable expatriates to access breaking news, up to date information and advice from one single source, wherever they are in the world.
Halifax International&#8217;s Expat Focus www.halifax-international-expats.com contains all the latest news and stories on emigrating abroad, employment and money management issues for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interest for savers slashed to just 0.1%</title>
		<link>http://www.financial-news.org.uk/interest-for-savers-slashed-to-just-01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks and buildings societies have silently slashed savings rates over the holidays, with many accounts returning a penny in the pound or 0.1% interest.
Lloyds TSB, Halifax, Abbey, Barclays, Alliance and Leicester, NatWest, Nationwide and Royal Bank of Scotland all reduced their rates on variable interest accounts.
Egg and Yorkshire Building Society have withdrawn fixed rate offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property sales plunge to lowest level in 30 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Property sales are at their lowest level since 1978, according to the latest figures from the Royal Society of Chartered Surveyors.
Estate agents all over the UK reported property sales down for November – with most selling only 10 properties in the three-month period leading up to the survey – that works out at less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savings At Risk As Banks Topple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savers with large amounts of cash on deposit should take action now to protect their money as the credit crunch threatens to sink more banks.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) underwrites a £35,000 per person per bank repayment guarantee in the event of a crisis.
On the face of it, the FSCS pays out if savers [...]]]></description>
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