October 2014

If you're taking out or renewing contents insurance, ensure you don't underestimate the value of your possessions, the Ombudsman has warned today.

Anyone who has moved from one Halifax current account to another could find their Experian credit file does not reflect this due to an IT blunder at the bank.

The majority of CPP mis-selling victims won't be given another chance to get their money back after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has disappointingly rejected MoneySavingExpert.com's calls to reopen the redress scheme.

Energy switching sites sometimes hide the cheapest tariffs, but we don't.

Shoppers will be able to use biometric bank cards to pay for shopping from next year after MasterCard unveiled what it says is the "world's first fingerprint authenticated card".

Sky home phone customers will be hit by line rental price hikes along with a number of other price rises from 1 December.

Savers are a step closer to being able to earn a tax-free income from peer-to-peer (P2P) lending after the Government today launched a consultation on how to include this form of lending in NISAs.

If you're planning to buy a latest model phone from O2, be aware that you'll actually be taking out a loan for the handset, which will appear on your credit file and could impact your ability to get credit elsewhere.

Electricity customers will get a £12 rebate off their next energy bill as a result of Government moves to lower the cost to consumers of green levies.

More than one million current accounts have been switched during the first year of the seven-day current account switching regime, with Halifax so far proving the most popular. But this is still a small number of switches compared to the millions of current account holders out there.