2014

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.

Disability and carers benefits are likely to rise by just 1.2% next April after it was revealed yesterday that inflation had fallen to its lowest level for five years.

People aged over 55 will be able to dip into their pension pot like a bank account as part of the Government's drive to give people greater freedom over retirement savings.

A savvy couple avoided losing more than £23,000 of their retirement savings after following MSE’s tips and paying for the first £200 of their new kitchen with the husband’s credit card.

Shoppers will earn just half as many points for spending the same amount of cash at Sainsbury's from April next year, it was announced today.