Banking

A limited number of customers of failed currency firm Crown Currency Exchange who sent back unspent overseas money they'd bought from the firm will be refunded. The cash will be returned in full in sterling at the current exchange rate.

Students hoping to use Tesco Clubcard points to fund study at The Open University should consider applying soon as the scheme is set to end this July.

Santander has once again been voted the worst bank account provider for customer service, while First Direct has retained its position as top dog in a poll of MoneySavingExpert.com users.

First Direct has come top of all our polls on bank account customer service over the past 18 months. What is it doing right?

Santander has been fined £1.5 million by the City regulator for failing to clearly tell customers how safe their investments were.

Web users are increasingly looking to sites such as MoneySavingExpert.com as they are getting bored with traditional social media such as Facebook, according to a YouGov poll.

A "revolutionary" app enabling people to send and receive money just by using mobile phone numbers has been made available to UK consumers.

The UK's unemployment rate has reached a 16-year high after another rise in the jobless total.

Hard-pressed families felt some relief last month as official figures revealed the rate of inflation fell to its lowest level in just under two years.