As of last night, Moneysupermarket are no longer in the top 10 for [car insurance].
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Unbelievable! Insurance.com has sold for over THIRTY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. [click to continue…]
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Google launched their credit card comparison service in February 2010. They’re now improving it and promoting it via their Google Comparison Ads. [click to continue…]
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The Future of Credit sponsored by Capital One
Credit is the provision of resources (such as granting a loan) by one party to another party where that second party does not reimburse the first party immediately, thereby generating a debt, and instead arranges either to repay or return those resources (or material(s) of equal value) at a later date. It is any form of deferred payment. The first party is called a creditor, also known as a lender, while the second party is called a debtor, also known as a borrower. [click to continue…]
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Martin Lewis’ latest blog entry tells us that the site has now hit in excess of 10 Million unique visitors per month. This is an astonishing success for one of the UK’s most popular websites. However, they’ve also got a new trick up their sleeve… [click to continue…]
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The MSE (Money Saving Expert) Charity is a charity set up by Martin Lewis to accept donations from the public and via proceeds from the MSE website. Profits from MoneySavingExpert are kept behind closed doors as a result of the change to the MSE ‘unlimited’ company status. However, according to Wikipedia:
A small proportion of this income is donated to charity; of this, two thirds is donated to the MSE Charity and the rest is donated to five other nominated charities by members
Source: Wiki
MoneySavingExpert and Martin Lewis have always kept quiet about the financial aspects of the company however, the charity accounts are available. [click to continue…]
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MoneyExtra.com was quietly sold for £1 to Fairpoint Group. Moneyextra, once a powerful aggregator, was sold to the Lead Generation specialist last week. Moneyextra, based in Manchester and founded in 1995 was once top of the crop in the financial services comparison market. Moneyextra chairman bought the group from AWD Chase de Vere in 2008 [click to continue…]
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Go Compare Cruises with the Go Compare Man!
As if you were’t upset enough with the gocompare adverts, Go Compare are now comparing cruises. They are slowly increasing the number of products that they compare (even though they often use third parties).
The insurance comparison market has always been very competitive and any opportunities for cross-sell are widely sought after. For those who missed the last Go Compare ad, here it is in also it beach glory (perhaps Gio has been on a cruise!).
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The Budget 2010 is in effect. Chancellor George Osbourne has announced an increase to IPT (Insurance Premium Tax) from 5% to 6%. [click to continue…]
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This is the third in a three part series (see parts one and two) on a legal case with HMRC taken up against two major comparison sites and aggregators: Autotrader and Insurancewide. This personal transcript is taken from an Insider (General Manager) at Insurancewide, Keith Sholl
So we move forward into 2010 and the Court of Appeal held in March. Due to the circumstances that prevailed Insurancewide had no legal representation at the hearing and, unfortunately, neither was I able to attend court and, therefore, I am unable to provide testimony as to the drama that may have been enacted during the course of those proceedings. Nevertheless, the decision announced on 22nd April is dramatic enough in that the three Judges each found in favour of the Respondents in their unanimous dismissal of the appeal by HMRC.
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