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Complaints about financial firms to the independent Ombudsman Service were up by 18% during the second half of last year, after many banks and other providers wrongly rejected consumer gripes.
25 February 2010
Financial firms with excessive numbers of complaints against them are to be named and shamed under new Financial Services Authority (FSA) rules.
29 January 2010
A ban on the sale of debt insurance is still at least a year away after the Competition Commission (the CC) revealed it will only lay out its next steps to protecting consumers next summer.
11 December 2009
Unemployment climbed by 30,000 over the three months to 30 September to reach 2.46 million, official figures showed today.
11 November 2009
The number of complaints about banks and other financial firms has risen to over 1.5 million during the first half of 2009.
29 October 2009
Hundreds of thousands of consumers who we sold debt insurance by broker Swinton are to receive refunds.
28 October 2009
The ban on debt insurance sales in its current form cannot go ahead, a tribunal has ruled.
16 October 2009
Consumers have been told by a claims firm they have little chance of getting debt wiped out by challenging a credit agreement.
14 October 2009
Unemployment climbed by 88,000 over the three months to August to reach 2.47 million, official figures showed today.
14 October 2009
A landmark legal victory could open the floodgates for millions of people to take credit card companies to court, it is claimed.
1 October 2009
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