Banking

Bank customers will be able to switch accounts within seven working days from 16 September – but your bank card may not be ready to use within a week of opening your new account.

From tomorrow, RBS and NatWest customers can earn at least 1% cashback on purchases made using their debit card – but only at a limited number of retailers for now. What's more, you can get more for your money elsewhere.

Millions of Lloyds TSB customers will be transferred to its new TSB bank from next month, so MoneySavingExpert.com explains what this really means for you.

New European proposals aimed at cutting the cost of using debit and credit cards have been announced, but it's too early to say whether shoppers will benefit or lose out from the move.

Premium Bond holders will have their chances of winning slashed next week, as NS&I is cutting the annual 'interest rate' on the prize fund.

Santander will axe its packaged accounts from October, affecting hundreds of thousands of customers.

Complaints about packaged accounts are rising, and the majority are being upheld in favour of consumers, the Financial Ombudsman Service says.

NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers should watch out for overdraft fees after the banks today reduced the buffer from which they start charging customers £6 a month for dipping into an authorised overdraft, from £100 to £10.

There is widespread opposition to pay rises for MPs, according to a poll of more than 10,000 MoneySavingExpert.com users.

Prime Minister David Cameron has today confirmed financial education will form part of the final draft of the national curriculum in England, to be implemented from September 2014.