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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.
1 August 2019
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Fixed daily and monthly overdraft fees will be banned and replaced with a single interest rate from next April, the financial regulator has announced. 
7 June 2019
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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.
24 May 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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