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Too Many Subscriptions Draining Your Budget? New FTC Click-to-Cancel Rule Aims to Simplify Cancellations - And What it Means for the UK

January 14, 2025
Many of us in the UK have experienced it—the gym membership that required endless emails and phone calls to cancel, the obscure app subscription that silently deducts money from your account each month, or the streaming service that makes you jump through hoops to unsubscribe. But good news is on the horizon. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a game-changing rule known as…
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Joint Accounts vs Shared Finances: Why Modern Couples in the UK Are Moving Away from Joint Accounts in 2025.

August 19, 2024
Why couples are changing their approach to money and joint accounts in 2025 What To Expect in This Article: Understanding the trend: Why couples are shifting towards financial independence The importance of communication and trust in managing shared finances The rise of financial secrecy in relationships Fair ways for couples to divide expenses Insights from IE Hub on the…
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4 Culture Moments that Rocked the Stock Market

July 24, 2024
1. Love Island sets ITV Stocks fluttering 4.8% What is carrying the hopes of investors with UK broadcaster ITV…? Nope, not the sharp new strategy of CEO Carolyn McCall but the half-naked, sun-soaked romance of the Mallorcan-based reality TV show, Love Island, that sent the ITV shares up 4.8% after a record-breaking opening night. 2. Frozen heats up Disney stock over…
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Millennial Finance is Multi-Dimensional: Here’s Why

July 24, 2024
Hipsters, Whipsters & neo-mainstreamers. Let’s talk money. I’ll do my best to refrain from dwelling on the cards we have been dealt as Millennials. To all intent and purposes, I am probably a mainstreamer. Sure, the occasional lurch to the left as a whipster, I’m often back in line one day later. Just like every ‘generation’ we like to work hard to work out how we have been…
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