Just picture yourself strolling through the bustling labyrinth that is London. The air is filled with history; your eyes flit over architectural grandeur and luxury retail outlets laden with rare...
Suttons and Robertsons Features in ITV’s New TV Show, Million Pound Pawn.
Central London pawnbrokers, Suttons and Robertsons, have a long history of taking good care of the precious items that are left with them in return for securely fixed loan lending, but they reveal...
The term Lombard banking dates right back to the Middles Ages when it referred to a type of pawnshop. Lombard takes its name from the well-to-do region of Lombardy, in North Italy, where the...
The House of Medici is one of the great houses of old Italy. Like the Borgias, we usually have an understanding of what went along with being a Medici, but only a few of us would be able to sum it...
The beating heart of the UK’s financial hub sees Lombard Street run from the Bank junction, down the side of the Bank of England. It is home to 1 Lombard Street, the Square Mile’s most established restaurants.
As we catch up with the history of pawnbroking, we find ourselves in the 1700s the world is changing quickly forever…
Lending money against your goods has been practised in many ancient countries, such as China, ancient Greece Europe. It helped many bank families in Italy gain dominance was one of the first...
When it comes to pawnbrokers, not all are created equal, many will specialise in things you have no interest in, you want to go to a pawn shop with a luxury experience. The reason we spend so much...
When I think of the word ‘Collector’, I imagine back when I was a teen, everyone had sports trading cards, there were shops that sold them, they had all sorts of signed gear for sale. Like-wise...
The new breed of entrepreneurs is turning to an unexpected source of fast finance. Many business people often find they need a quick, high-value loan, for sometimes as short as a few days or weeks...
Sometimes in life, a real money emergency does pop up. It might be the car has broken down needs a new part, the house is flooded, the fridge is broken, or those U2 tickets just cost a lot more than...
The implications of the great bank crash of 2008 still reverberate around the world – while some long-standing financial institutions crumbled to the ground, others clung on for dear life. The...
In early 2016, the former Bank of England governor Mervyn King released his new book, 'The End of Alchemy'. He states in the book that the most recent financial meltdown showed that emergency...
