The Student Loans Company (SLC) has vowed to ensure all university goers who applied for finance on time will have their loans and grants available by the start of the academic year.
Millions of victims of debt insurance mis-selling, who may not even realise they've been wronged, could be offered compensation, if lenders follow tough new rules laid down today.
Nationalised Northern Rock plans to start offering credit cards and personal loans again as it readies itself for sale to the private sector, the group revealed today.