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American Express cardholders risk being hit by late payment fees from this autumn because the plastic provider is bringing forward the direct debit (DD) due date.
5 August 2009
Hundreds of thousands of students are graduating this summer and now is the time to choose the best current account.
29 July 2009
A major Australian bank will scrap overdraft penalty charges in the autumn, in a move which campaigners hope will help UK bank charges victims.
28 July 2009
Abbey is hammering many of its current account holders with hundreds of pounds of backdated bank charges this month.
23 July 2009
Banks have been given a further six months to sit on bank charges claims, pending the outcome of the test case to determine the fairness of these fees.
22 July 2009
The Tories have today declared bank charges "unfair" in the party's white paper on financial regulation.
20 July 2009
Nationwide will pay its FlexAccount customers £50 to make the product their main current account.
16 July 2009
Millions of consumers stuck in dinosaur current accounts could each be squandering hundreds of pounds a year.
14 July 2009
Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have created a set of new over-the-counter cash withdrawal charges that come into effect later this summer.
13 July 2009
A body to instigate mass, group actions against banks and other financial institutions could be established in future.
8 July 2009
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