http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk Finance blog Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There was a time when working in public services was probably one of the safest positions that anyone could go for. To make that career choice even better careers in public services are very diverse too. However, this sector is set to be hit with cutbacks; in fact around 350,000 jobs ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/334-public-sector-facing-job-cuts.html The opposition finance minister in Japan, Masaharu Nakagawa is laying out plans for what he sees as a way of uniting Asia with a single currency. This plan could be put forward if hi party are elected in the next Japanese elections, which must take place before September of this year. With ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/332-japan-wants-single-asian-currency.html The best indicator on the state of the property market is the amount of mortgages approved by lenders, this not only shows the amount of properties being sold, but also how much for. In April there were around twenty seven thousand mortgages issued by lenders, that is an increase of almost ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/330-mortgages-approvals-increase.html For credit card fraudster to succeed they rely on the credit card being valid and that the system does not pick it up, otherwise all of the illegal work would have been for nothing. There is a growing sector for credit card fraud where the credit card and the fraudster are ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/328-fraudster%e2%80%99s-getaway-on-last-minute-bookings.html Sometimes it is only when things get so bad, that all the finance secrets start to come out. As with the financial institutions who managed to hide their exposure to bad debt, so do individuals sometimes hide the truth about their current financial status. These lies often lead to a serious ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/326-the-figures-never-lie.html It was not that long ago when the older more experienced worker was being hailed as the saviour of many businesses. This was especially so in the retail sector, who were only too quick to announce what a good these older people were doing. But now it seems as the financial ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/324-older-workers-worst-in-financial-crisis.html Although it may seem from the figures that are often released online sales are on the rise, so that would mean that the average consumer would be ok with conducting their business online. Not necessarily so, because in a recent survey it has been found that a third of internet ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/322-online-fraud-scares-consumers.html History shows that major financial and economic centres are delicate to say the least Europe is littered with cities that once prospered as financial centres, yet are today a small shadow of their former self. London should be aware of this because the main factor involved in the demise of these ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/320-trouble-for-city-from-the-eu.html On some occasions bloggers have caused despair and problems for certain people, this is put down to the fact that they are unregulated and therefore write what they want about whomever they want. One such blogger Mike Morgan has got under the skin of US bankers Goldman Sachs who have instructed ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/318-goldman-sachs-tries-to-silence-blogger.html There has been a lot of talk about the reduction in the honeybee population, not just here in the UK but around the world. Somehow, the significance of this has been overlooked after all; the honeybee is just an insect and therefore would not be missed. Yet recent research has shown ... http://www.financeroadmap.co.uk/316-bees-contribution-to-the-uk-economy.html