Professional Services News

Total mortgage lending for 2008 will fall by 19.3 per cent year-on-year, it has been predicted by Datamonitor.

One of Travers Smiths' top private equity bankers is to move Bridgepoint Capital, it has been announced.

The Bank of England has come under pressure from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) today, as the group calls for interest rates to be lowered.

The Eurozone has contracted for the second quarter in a row, for the first time since the Euro was launched, it has been reported.

The financial sector is bracing itself for another major collapse of a financial firm, it has been reported.

Growing uncertainty over the government's implementation of a stamp duty holiday has caused the housing market to freeze, according to estate agents.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided once again to fix UK base rates at five per cent.

Clifford Chance is holding elections for its new Asia managing partner following Jim Baird's resignation.

Linklaters has recruited Jeff Schmidt, bureau of competition director at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for its New York offices.

The chancellor has drawn up a series of measures to aid homebuyers and to promote first time buyers reaching the property ladder.