Endowments

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Financial firms with excessive numbers of complaints against them are to be named and shamed under new Financial Services Authority (FSA) rules.

The number of complaints about banks and other financial firms has risen to over 1.5 million during the first half of 2009.

A body to instigate mass, group actions against banks and other financial institutions could be established in future.