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A look back at last week’s biggest stories

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  • 06/07/2012
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Each Friday, Mortgage Solutions takes a look back at the most popular articles on the website over the past week.

Last week’s top five stories:

1) The British Mortgage Awards 2012: The winners
Mortgage Solutions offers its congratulations to each and every winner of the British Mortgage Awards, which took place this week.

2) After England’s Euro failure, mortgage market must avoid own goals
Whilst the England football team ended its campaign in Europe with a whimper, the UK Mortgage Market is still battling away in the EU Mortgage Directive competition.

3) Mortgage customers overcharged as RBS and NatWest problems continue
A number of customers with RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank have had extra mortgage and loan payments incorrectly taken out of their accounts.

4) Millionaire property developer fined for tax evasion
A millionaire property developer has been ordered to pay a total of £830,000 in fines and compensation for evasion of inheritance tax.

5) Online commercial lender aims to beat ‘snail paced’ banks
Online commercial lender Funding Circle has challenged banks to up their game, calling service from traditional lenders ‘snail paced’.

Here’s some stories you may have missed:

Grant Shapps: LIBOR fixing could have caused repossessions
Housing minister Grant Shapps has told parliament that people may have had their homes repossessed because of bank rate-fixing.

What the industry had to say about the British Mortgage Awards 2012
The British Mortgage Awards 2012 were held in central London last night. Mortgage Solutions takes a look at the ceremony through the eyes of Twitter.

BoE unleashes £50bn of QE in bid to halt UK recession
The Bank of England (BoE) has extended its quantitative easing programme by £50bn, in a bid to haul the UK economy out of recession.

Shapps: Over 100 councils sign up to keep Right to Buy cash
Over 100 councils across England have seized the opportunity to use cash proceeds from the reinvigorated Right to Buy to help meet the housing needs of working local families, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has said.

FSA suspends adviser on suspicion firm ‘is controlled by others’
An insurance broker has had her permissions to carry out regulated activities cancelled by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on suspicions that her firm is being controlled or managed by others.

Top Tweets:

Andrew Bloch ‏@AndrewBloch
If Bob Diamond sits at home and counts the money he made whilst at Barclays, counting at £1 per second, it will take him over 23 years

Dominik Lipnicki ‏@dominikymd
LIBOR = Lying Investment Bankers Obstinate Rate.

Jay Taylor ‏@jaytay1or
Guys…do NOT worry about the amount of debt the UK is in. With the amount of PPI I’ve apparently been mis-sold, I’ve got us COVERED!

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