Expat Banking and Finance

Over the last 20 years or so the mobile phone has certainly become the most powerful communication tool of all time with many of us carrying our phones with us 24 hours a day seven days a week. Indeed many of us go to sleep with our phones by our side, wake up with our [...]

Over the last 20 years or so we have seen a massive increase in the number of mobile phones around the world, mobile Internet services available and indeed in the eyes of many people the mobile phone is the most powerful communication tool ever. We therefore thought it would be interesting to see how many [...]

In many ways we take mobile communications for granted today such has been the development of the mobile telecoms market and mobile technology. This is an area of business which has attracted billions upon billions of pounds of investment and indeed some of the services which we see today have been decades in the planning [...]

While there are few countries in the world that have not cottoned onto the benefits of mobile Internet services there is some debate as to whether consumers trust these services enough to use them on a frequent basis. Despite the fact that millions upon millions of pounds have been invested into this particular area it [...]

The chances of British expats getting a new mortgage when they return from working abroad has reduced after Lloyds Banking Group suspended its expat product. It confirmed that it is no longer accepting new mortgage applications or further advances from applicants living abroad. Existing expat customers won’t be affected.

A recent survey conducted by ExpatForum.com in conjunction with Barclays International showed that most expats “never use” mobile banking tools, despite holding several bank accounts in different countries. The study polled 10,000 expats to find out how they manage their finances while working abroad. Of the respondents, 73% said they “never” accessed their bank accounts [...]