Banks

More than one million current accounts have been switched during the first year of the seven-day current account switching regime, with Halifax so far proving the most popular. But this is still a small number of switches compared to the millions of current account holders out there.

Anyone who still has (N)ISA savings with Intelligent Finance should consider moving their cash elsewhere as its interest rates have today fallen to paltry levels.

Five million NatWest and RBS customers will be automatically moved to new accounts in January paying well below the best buys, making it a key trigger for them to seek out a better deal.

If you've not enough money in your account and a payment bounces, you may be able to avoid the associated fee as more banks are to adopt a 'retry' scheme from September where they'll attempt to process the transaction again later in the day.

If you've got a personal loan with HSBC, you may get a refund of your interest after the bank admitted making a mistake on annual statements.

Lloyds Banking Group has set aside an extra £600 million to cover payment protection insurance mis-selling claims - taking its total PPI bill to over £10 billion.

The personal current account market could face a full-scale investigation by the competition watchdog after its preliminary probe found it "lacks effective competition" and "does not meet the needs of customers".

NatWest and Halifax are the latest firms we've found to have sent misleading payment demands purporting to be from independent debt collection agencies.

Banks that pay ultra-low interest rates on savings accounts because customers tend not to switch away may face a crackdown from the industry watchdog.