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Homeless families rehoused in temporary are bearing the brunt of the high travel costs and policies ill-designed to accommodate their specific needs.
Are buy now, pay later services truly a new way to boost financial inclusion, or just another type of predatory loan?
A new study by the Retirement Commission has identified the different personality characteristics that influence how we manage our money – you can test your own with their online quiz.
For better or worse, debt is a part of everybody’s financial portfolios. Solid financial planning will help you keep your eye on the prize of wealth accumulation.
Budgets are imperative for people to manage their resources and attain financial goals.
BNPL is now the second most common form of consumer credit used by young Australians - except technically it’s not credit.
The bankruptcy system has always been difficult to navigate, especially for minorities and other vulnerable groups. The pandemic is making it a lot harder.
Here are the four common lending practices identified by the Australian inquiry into credit and financial services targeted at those at risk of financial hardship.
Australia’s first large-scale study on the experiences of people in financial hardship contradict the idea most debt problems are due to poor choices.
Easy credit services like Zip trade on the individual’s belief that their income rise in the future.
It might seem ridiculously early, but you may wish to heed the benefits of starting your Christmas shopping early.
Although the Fed delayed raising rates this month, it has signaled it intends to wean the U.S. economy off its unprecedented monetary stimulus. Now the question is whether Congress will take the handoff.
New research shows people are needlessly declaring bankruptcy because they don’t know about the help available to manage their debts.
Despite its role in bringing on the financial crisis, debt continues to plague many of us the world over (just ask the Greeks). In the UK the appetite for debt is undiminished, with the run up to Christmas…
The world’s rich and powerful are gathering for the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos to discuss, and hopefully find solutions to, the world’s economic and social problems. The 45th…
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