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Student loans administrator Erudio is to write again to thousands of graduates to confirm new deferment deadlines, after a second admin blunder in a month caused widespread confusion over when deferment application forms need to be submitted.
28 April 2016
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I'm writing this because I was shocked... at you, yes you, most of you should hang your heads. In our Jan poll, only 28% had checked their credit file in the last year, and 53% hadn't in 10yrs. This is potentially damaging to your finances - just one error in those files could kibosh them.
2 March 2016
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Over 10 million Barclaycard credit card customers will have their interest rates linked to the Bank of England base rate from February next year, while the same is also happening for some Lloyds Banking Group customers.
20 November 2015
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Interest rates may not rise until 2017 the Bank of England has suggested this month, but mortgage borrowers should still consider switching to a cheaper deal now, with rates near all-time lows.
9 November 2015
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Almost 4,000 borrowers are due a share of £1.7 million after CashEuroNet UK LLC, trading as QuickQuid and Pounds to Pocket, lent some customers more than they could afford to repay.
4 November 2015
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The financial watchdog says competition in the credit card market is working fairly well for most consumers, although it has expressed concerns about the scale of potentially problematic credit card debt and claimed more could be done to help struggling borrowers.
3 November 2015
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More than 147,000 borrowers are due a share of over £15.4 million after Dollar Financial UK (Dollar), trading as The Money Shop, Payday UK, Payday Express and Ladder Loans, lent many people more than they could afford to repay.
26 October 2015
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More than 92,000 customers of payday loan firm, Cash Genie, are due a share of £10m in redress after the firm was found guilty of making a number of "serious failings", including charging unfair fees and rolling customers' loans over without consent.
27 July 2015
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Interest rates could begin to rise from their historic lows at the turn of this year, the Bank of England Governor predicts.
17 July 2015

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