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Martin: 'After 10 years there's finally an end to unfair bank charges'

Fixed daily overdraft fees will be banned and replaced with a single interest rate next April, the financial regulator has announced

7 June 2019

Santander to refund 20,000 customers after failing to warn them about overdraft charges

Santander is paying out £1.4 million in refunds to 20,000 customers, after it failed to send out warnings about unarranged overdraft fees

24 May 2019

Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland to hike overdraft fees for millions

Nearly all customers with an overdraft at Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland will see their charges increase from January - and someone with a constant £500 overdraft will pay around £40 a year more under the new system

23 November 2018

22,000 tax-free childcare payments delayed – here's what you need to know

Around 22,000 Tax-Free Childcare payments have been delayed by up to eight days, leaving parents at risk of late payment fees from their childcare provider

7 November 2018

Unarranged overdraft fees can cost bank customers £156 more than payday loans

Unarranged overdraft fees can cost bank customers up to seven and a half times more than borrowing from a payday loans

8 February 2017

11 ways to check if you're due £1,000s

Sentinel reclaim letters are being sent out, but it's not the only scandal: PPI, energy credit, bank charges and more

19 August 2015

Co-op Bank customers to pay less after overdraft fees revamp

Co-operative Bank current account customers who go overdrawn will see some fees fall from today, as it revamps charges

15 April 2015

Is bank charges reclaiming back? Martin Lewis thinks it could be

MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis says a new court ruling has a chance of reopening the floodgates

23 September 2014

MoneySaver wins 'first' bank charges court case since 2007

Oliver Foster-Burnell has won a bank charges case against Lloyds TSB at Taunton County Court

12 September 2014

Payment bounced? You'll soon have a second chance to avoid fees

More banks set to adopt a 'retry' scheme from September where they attempt to process bounced payments again

21 August 2014

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