Banking

Most money transfers will go through within one working day from this week, under a new EU directive.

The Co-operative Bank is suspending interest charges on agreed overdrafts for the next three months.

There has been a "seismic collapse" of private sector pensions and fresh incentives are needed to boost retirement savings as auto-enrolment nears, a report warned today.

The "bleak" financial situation faced by the younger generation was laid bare today, as official figures showed that more people aged 25 to 34 are turning to a type of insolvency known as a debt relief order (DRO) than any other age group.

Cheque guarantee cards will not be re-introduced, the body which oversees payments said yesterday, after finding the scheme's closure has had a "minimal impact" on consumers and businesses.

A number of banks will end the controversial practice of charging their debit card customers to take out foreign currency from a bureau de change in the UK, following an agreement with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Banks are to be required to "ring-fence" their retail operations from risk-taking arms and to hold increased levels of capital to protect the UK from a repeat of the crash of 2008, Chancellor George Osborne announced today.

Lloyds Banking Group has revealed plans to sell 632 branches to the Co-operative Bank, so what does this mean for customers?

As MPs today debate making financial education a compulsory part of the school curriculum, on the back of a government e-petition tabled by Martin Lewis as part of a campaign by this website, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (pictured, right) says young people must be taught about money matters...