Banks

HSBC has set aside an extra £290 million to pay for payment protection insurance (PPI) claims.

RBS has set aside an additional £125 million to cover payment protection insurance (PPI) claims, as the realisation of the true scale of the mis-selling scandal grows by the day.

Taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group has taken an additional £375 million hit to cover payment protection insurance (PPI) claims, it revealed today.

Barclays has extended its Pingit app, which allows you to send money just by using a mobile phone number, to virtually any bank and building society current account customer.

Squeezed consumers searching for the best deals face a "major risk" of being sold financial products they do not need, the finance watchdog warned today.

A scheme designed to provide a helping hand to home buyers shut out of the housing market will launch today.

Banks and financial firms are wrongly rejecting payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints, despite them putting billions of pounds aside aside to pay consumers.

MoneySavingExpert.com today provides evidence Halifax and Lloyds TSB advertised pet insurance policies promising "life-long" cover before axing the products over recent months, meaning they were anything but life-long.

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?