Belfast Telegraph

  Speculation is growing about the future of one of Londonderry’s largest employers. Homeloan Management Ltd – HML – employs 444 staff in the city, administering mortgages on behalf of banks and building societies. The company specialises in administering loans in the troubled sub-prime mortgage sector.   HML is owned by the Skipton Building Society, […]

It was unthinkable that a bank could go broke – once.  The queues outside Northern Rock branches put a stop to those assumptions.   Since then the UK Government has rescued the Royal Bank of Scotland – including Ulster Bank – the Lloyds Group – including Halifax and Bank of Scotland – and Bradford &

Derry City Council services have been threatened with industrial action by workers angry at restructuring proposals.  The council is to seek voluntary redundancies.   A confidential report presented to the council this week – written by the council’s chief executive and town clerk, Valerie Watts, and obtained by the Belfast Telegraph – details a radical

  Business and domestic ratepayers face a hike in district rates as a result of a dramatic fall in the value of Northern Ireland’s local government pension scheme because of the global financial crisis.   Northern Ireland’s local government pension fund lost £600m in value between January 2007 and the beginning of this year, a

  Paul Gosling joins the Belfast Telegraph to write a weekly column helping readers get their finances into shape. He already writes a weekly column on personal finance for the Belfast Telegraph’s sister paper, The Independent, where he is the paper’s ‘financial agony uncle’. Paul has also written for the Financial Times, The Times, the

  Weak leadership and a lack of civic pride have been blamed for the slow pace of economic development in Londonderry — by the man tasked with regenerating the city.   Sir Roy McNulty, chairman of Derry’s Ilex Urban Regeneration Company, wrote his blunt criticisms of other public bodies and the local population in a