Banking

A financial health minister should be appointed to help ensure everyone has access to basic facilities such as banking, affordable credit and is encouraged to save, a report argues.

With exactly one month to go until the end of the tax-year when savers will lose their tax-free allowance if they don't use it by 5 April, MoneySavingExpert.com explains how you can split your cash between easy-access and fixed cash ISAs.

More than 90% of First Direct's current account customers rate its service as 'great', so it's little wonder it has yet again secured the top spot in our biannual banking poll.

Lloyds Bank is the worst of the major banks and building societies for wrongly rejecting both payment protection insurance (PPI) and other banking complaints, new figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service show.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today launched a challenge to the industry to ensure it better protects vulnerable customers after research found that in some cases their treatment can lead to further stress and harm.

ISA season is nearly upon us. That's the frenzied time around the 5 April tax year close, when many desperately scrabble to set up their ISA before the deadline. And the push continues on 6 April when a whole load more people open their new tax year ISA on the first day.

Shoppers tempted by 'free trials' of miracle youth cream and weight loss pills are being warned by the Royal Bank of Scotland to read ts&cs carefully after the bank reported its customers lost a combined £3 million in just six months after signing up to such schemes.

Savers aged 65 and over now have until 15 May to deposit money into Pensioner Bonds, as the Government has announced it's extending the scheme past its original £10 billion allocation.

Nationwide customers transferring funds via faster payments yesterday were left angry, worried, and in some cases out of pocket after a problem with the building society's system meant payments weren't being sent.