A coalition of charities and community groups today called on banks to increase access to financial services for the millions who are currently excluded.
Around 100,000 of the UK's poorest families will be crippled with £82 million of debt during 2010 after borrowing money from loan sharks to fund Christmas, research claims today.
Consumers who try to wriggle out of their credit card debts based on a technicality have been dealt a blow after one loophole was closed by the High Court, it is claimed.
30 December 2009
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