Finance

Additional protection for those accessing their pension pot from April is to be introduced, the City watchdog has announced.

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.

Banks may have to make it easier to compare and switch cash savings accounts if plans announced by the City regulator today are put in place.

Complaints about Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) have fallen since the 2012 peak, but the Financial Ombudsman says it will be dealing with the aftermath of the scandal for 'several more years yet'.

More than 4,500 customers of debt management firm Harrington Brooks will be paid redress after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found communications from the firm to creditors on some customers' behalf were delayed.

The Financial Conduct Authority has today announced a series of proposals aimed at improving financial services complaints handling, including banning firms from using premium rate numbers for post-sale calls and allowing people to take their complaints to the Ombudsman at an earlier stage.

Many pensioners are missing out on a higher retirement income as annuity providers aren't doing enough to encourage customers to check if they can get a better deal elsewhere, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said today.

Current account customers could switch bank in just five working days after the Chancellor of the Exchequer today called for a review of the switching period.

A crackdown on unexpected fees charged by payday loan middlemen has been unveiled by the industry watchdog.