Weekly Headline Roundup: 13-12-2024

Headline Update 13-12-2024 :

-> Second charge mortgage figures grew by 32% in October

-> Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI

-> Cost of average UK Christmas dinner up 6.5% as veg prices soar | Retail industry

-> House prices surprise with fastest rise for two years, says Nationwide

-> Is AI any good at choosing gifts?

-> Gen Digital to Add Financial Wellness Tools With MoneyLion Acquisition

-> 14% of households won’t be putting up Christmas lights AT ALL this year

-> Stamp duty receipts tumble 27% amid mini-Budget fallout: HMRC   – Mortgage Strategy

-> Why We Invested in Colektia: AI and the Future of Debt Collection | by Mouro Capital | Dec, 2024

-> Car finance scandal branded ‘an unholy mess’

-> Our Consumer Duty focus areas

-> FCA is ‘incompetent at best, dishonest at worst’, claim MPs and peers | Financial Conduct Authority