Rewards and interest rates on Lloyds', Halifax's and Bank of Scotland's flagship current accounts could be under threat, after their parent company Lloyds Banking Group said it will conduct a review as a result of "changing market conditions".
Fourteen banks and building societies have now signed up to offer Help to Buy ISAs ahead of the scheme's launch next month, the Chancellor has announced.
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.
Lloyds Banking Group has set aside an extra £500 million to cover payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling claims, which takes the group's overall PPI provision to £13.9 billion.
If you bank with Barclays and pay to get insurance 'extras' – for example via its Barclays Additions account – you should urgently check if you've activated these; otherwise you won't be covered if something goes wrong.
Lloyds Bank is yet again 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.
25 August 2015
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