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Interest Rate Swap Misselling Haunts the FSA

The chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, Andrew Tyrie is set to demand and explanation for the growing scandal of alleged systematic interestrate swap misselling by high street banks, mainly between 2005 and 2008.

Mr Tyrie said: “I intend to write to the chairman of the FSA for an explanation of how this issue is being handled.”

It is believed that thousands of small and medium Businesses (SMEs) have been hit after banks began selling them highly lucrative interest rate swap derivates. The complex hedge products were often attached to a loan as a condition that it be granted, and while the bank collected handsome up-front profits on the sales of the product, their customers were often unwittingly locked into payments far in excess of those they had been led to anticipate.

Not only that, but faced with the burden of these payments, on seeking to escape the unfavourable arrangements they then discovered a levy of unexpected exit fees running in many cases into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

It is estimated that thousands of SME businesses have been affected – and commentators say that the scale of the problem may dwarf even the PPI scandal, running into several billion pounds.

Harvinder McKibbin of Harvey McKibbin Solicitors in Lichfield said: “Lots of SMEs feel compelled to accept the situation they find themselves in for fear their bank will call in the loan if they make a public complaint. However, instead of being saddled with this huge burden of debt they could be entitled to compensation if the product was missold – so I would urge any business in this position to seek legal advice as soon as possible.”

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My son is at college for the last day before the easter holidays and I decided that he should do a few jobs whilst he’s off. I don’t expect him to do loads but he should begin to contribute to the household so I’ve left him in charge of hire fencing and a few other things. We’re currently in the middle of a building project and we need to hire fencing. I’ve told him to go to easyfencinghire.co.uk so hopefully he’ll get a good quote. Other than hire fencing there isn’t too much on his list so he should still have plenty of time to have fun.