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Lloyds Bank is the worst of the major banks and building societies for wrongly rejecting both payment protection insurance (PPI) and other banking complaints, new figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service show.

If you're one of the two million flogged worthless card protection by Affinion (often branded Sentinel), keep an eye on the post as the last of the letters informing customers about a redress scheme are due to be sent out – these aren't spam so don't throw them away.

Update: 9.30am, 5 February 2015: Tesco Bank has this morning said that all customers can now see their accounts online as normal. But let us know if you're still suffering via the forum link below.

If you're one of the two million flogged worthless card security insurance to cover fraudulent credit card use by Affinion (often branded Sentinel), you may be entitled to £100s back under a massive redress scheme launched today. But it'll only happen if enough mis-selling victims vote for it.

The euro has weakened even further over the past week. It now sits at a paltry £1 buying €1.33 at the spot rate (and £1 buys €1.33 at the best travel money rate too). This would've been unthinkable last year when you'd have done well to get €1.20 and two years ago when €1.15 would've been worth whooping about.

Tesco Bank loan and credit card customers are starting to receive details about their share of the £43 million set aside by the bank due to historic paperwork errors.

About 12,000 Co-operative Bank travel credit card customers are set to lose one of the main perks of their card - from next month they won't be able to earn loyalty points to spend on holidays.

Santander debit and credit card users can earn up to 15% cashback on spending from today, but customers will have to activate each cashback deal before they spend.

The majority of CPP mis-selling victims won't be given another chance to get their money back after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has disappointingly rejected MoneySavingExpert.com's calls to reopen the redress scheme.

Shoppers will be able to use biometric bank cards to pay for shopping from next year after MasterCard unveiled what it says is the "world's first fingerprint authenticated card".