Savings

Co-op has attempted to safeguard its Christmas savings scheme to prevent another Farepak-type crisis in the unlikely event it went bust.

Elderly people are in danger of being stripped of their dignity and assets because of a failure to tackle how care is funded, it is claimed.

ING Direct savers in the UK will be protected by the British Government, instead of the Dutch compensation scheme, once a proposed buy-out by Barclays goes ahead.

From Monday, up to 11 million workers will start to be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension.

Debit and credit card fraud has increased as criminals turn to old-fashioned scams to swipe people's plastic, an industry body says.

Complaints to financial firms rose by 59% in the first half of this year, driven by a spike in the number of payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints , new data from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) reveals today.

Savers with fixed-rate bonds to give them better returns on their money could end up losing cash due to confusing variations over what happens when the deals end.

Half a million people will join a workplace pension for the first time by Christmas once employees start being automatically enrolled into schemes, the Government predicts.

A new campaign calling on banks to put customers first has been launched today by consumer group Which?.

Lloyds TSB and MBNA are the worst of the major banks for wrongly dismissing complaints, new data published by the Financial Ombudsman Service reveals today.