13th May 2013: UK Housing Market Update
The latest seasonally adjusted Nationwide quarterly house price index (released on 28th March 2013) shows that UK house prices were marginally up (0.8% q-o-q) in 2013q1, finally bringing annual growth...
View Article20th May 2013: Labour Market Round-up
This week’s Labour Market Statistics release from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) confirms that the buoyancy of the jobs market came to an abrupt halt in the first quarter of this year. After...
View Article27th May 2013: Key Sectoral Trends
Short-term trends are bleak: the weak eurozone is adversely affecting manufacturing via export demand whilst smaller businesses are being held back by lack of credit. Banks are under pressure from...
View Article3rd June 2013: Portugal Deficit Update
Portugal’s long and arduous process of fiscal adjustment has not been without obstacles and the latest stumbling blocks have threatened to undermine much of the recent progress. Two years on from...
View Article10th June 2013: Austerity or Growth?
Governments are treading a fine line between adopting a programme of austerity and not knocking countries back into crippling recession. The experience of countries varies. Within the Eurozone, Germany...
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17th June 2013: Keep up with Industrial change
Data from the census shows us the change in industrial structure across the nation and reminds us of the importance of keeping our accounting frameworks up-to-date. July 31st will see the release of...
View Article24th June 2013: Inflation Round-Up
Inflation is being driven up by a variety of external factors despite underlying sluggish demand in the economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) annual inflation reverted back to 2.7% in May after...
View Article1st July 2013: GDP revisions
GDP rose by 0.3% in 2013q1 but there were revisions to previous estimates in line with methodological changes implemented with the Blue Book 2013. This article highlights the main revisions. There is...
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8th July 2013: Recent Regional Survey Indicators
Data published in June shows that although headline activity indicators are positive, weakness lingers in the labour market and export trends across the regions. London continues to outperform....
View Article15th July 2013: French Economic Prospects
France’s domestic economy is essentially stagnant with the country reliant on an improved external environment to drive the recovery. Preliminary first quarter numbers showed the economy shrank by 0.2%...
View Article22nd June 2013: UK Housing Market Update
House price growth is now gradually gaining some momentum. In contrast to our earlier view of a flat housing market in 2013, we now expect some improvement in activity and muted rise in house prices in...
View Article29th July 2013: UK Consumer Spending Review
Our baseline forecast for GDP has been revised up slightly to 0.9% in 2013. The firmer tone of retail spending, has also raised the upside risks to our consumer spendingforecast. Two challenges remain....
View Article12th August 2013: Forward Guidance
The Bank of England’s forward guidance on montary policy allays investor confidence while pledging to give priority to price stability. The Bank of England, under Mark Carney’s stewardship, has finally...
View ArticleThe real view of a customer journey
Banking is integral to your customers’ lives, and how you choose to engage with them is an integral part of the relationship’s lifespan. How can you keep them loyal? Joe’s Story for Banking illustrates...
View ArticleImproving conditions allow mortgage approvals
The government’s Funding for Lending and Help to Buy schemes have begun to have an impact on the housing market, as house price growth is finally gaining some momentum. In contrast to earlier...
View ArticleIs growth on the horizon?
Our revised forecast for GDP indicates that growth, albeit gradual, may well be on the horizon – the baseline forecast now stands at 0.9% for 2013. Further indications for growth include a modest...
View ArticleSee us in Amsterdam at the second Annual European Stress Testing for Banks...
Stress-testing for consumer and commercial portfolios is now a fundamental part of credit risk management regulatory reporting. As more robust stress-testing becomes mandatory, critical analysis can...
View ArticleStress testing for consumer and commercial portfolios – join our webinar at...
Stress testing for consumer and commercial portfolios is now part and parcel of credit risk management regulatory reporting. With more robust stress testing being required, the analysis can also be...
View ArticleBlack is the opposite of white
Black is the opposite of white. Optimise all areas of your customer spectrum quickly and efficiently. At the end of July 2013, according to Credit Action’s debt statistics report, the UK’s outstanding...
View ArticleWelcome to analytics
During the past five-plus years as the recession hit, the use of data analytics to support business decisions may not have been one of your key drivers. Yet, as the UK returns to growth and the...
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