Banking

New rules to ensure banks and building societies check customers are eligible to claim on insurance products before selling them as part of packaged current accounts have been proposed.

The major banks have shunned the launch of junior Isas next week.

Lloyds Banking Group may be the biggest banking organisation in the UK, but its customers are far from ready to laud it as the best when it comes to customer service.

Consumers with a current account that offers insurance or other extras could be left without any cover if they fail to register first.

University applications for 2012 are down, figures from admissions body UCAS show, with the fall attributed to a misguided fear over higher fees.

The Government is putting the wheels in motion to develop simpler financial products.

The last batch of parents whose offspring are eligible for the child trust fund (CTF) only have a few weeks to choose where to save or invest their free cash, or face having it automatically placed in a poor-paying or risky account.

The Government today has delayed its planned increase in the state pension age, saying that thousands of women will benefit.