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RBS and NatWest have promised to fix an issue which has seen some debit card customers charged foreign purchase fees when buying products from Apple UK's online store.
31 July 2019
Fixed daily and monthly overdraft fees will be banned and replaced with a single interest rate from next April, the financial regulator has announced.
6 June 2019
Santander is paying out £1.4 million in refunds to 20,000 customers, after it failed to warn some of those who went into an unarranged overdraft about fees.
23 May 2019
Nearly all customers with an overdraft at Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland will see their charges increase from next year – and some will pay more than £100 a year extra.
23 November 2018
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 up to seven and a half times more than borrowing from a payday loan company, new research shows. But there are steps you can take to avoid these sky-high charges.
8 February 2017
19 August 2015
Co-operative Bank current account customers who go overdrawn will see some fees fall from today, as the bank has revamped its charging structure.
15 April 2015
MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis, the man credited as the 'big gob in chief' behind bank charges reclaiming, says a new court ruling has a chance of reopening the floodgates.
23 September 2014
A MoneySaver has become what's believed to be the first person to win a bank charges case in court since 2007.
12 September 2014
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