Archive for April, 2007

Competition is heating up for teenage pocket money today as Alliance & Leicester launches a high-interest current account aimed at 16-21 year-olds.

Welsh boom in buy to let

Investing in property to rent out is booming, and nowhere more so than in Wales.

Research carried out by Childcare Choice has revealed that millions of parents are not claiming financial help which could help them save up to £1,195 a year.

Bicycle thieves are stealing a bike every 71 seconds and took machines to the value of £146m in a 12-month period 2005-06, according to Halifax Insurance.

A bank has been ordered to pay costs by a judge for wasting the court’s time in a case where a customer had sued for a refund of her overdraft charges. The bank caved in at the last minute and did not, in the event, go to court.

EDITOR’S BLOG: HIP operation should be replaced – pronto

I might be talking of a matter here that my colleagues on ‘Your Mortgage’ probably feel is more their area but, hey, it concerns your money (and quite a bit of it), so what the hell, here goes anyway.

NatWest credit card customers participating in the Airmiles reward scheme will now have to switch to Lloyds TSB to continue earning points.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a far-reaching investigation into the UK banking sector, especially the charges applied to UK current account holders when cheques are bounced or overdrafts breached.

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