The cost of taking out car insurance has risen for the first time in more than two years after efforts to clamp down on fraudulent claims failed to deliver the savings insurers had anticipated, according to the AA.
Savers are a step closer to being able to earn a tax-free income from peer-to-peer (P2P) lending after the Government today launched a consultation on how to include this form of lending in NISAs.
People aged over 55 will be able to dip into their pension pot like a bank account as part of the Government's drive to give people greater freedom over retirement savings.
Homeowners temporarily transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds into bank accounts after the sale of their property could see up to £1 million protected under new Bank of England proposals.
Ofgem has written to the big energy suppliers demanding they take action on the poor handling of complaints after the regulator found the average customer had to contact their supplier six times before an issue was resolved.
A stronger dollar and a pound 'weakened by the Scottish referendum' have put the brakes on falling petrol prices, according to the motoring association, the AA.
Commuters in England with season tickets are to be spared some of the pain of next January's rail fare rise after Chancellor George Osborne announced a price cap.
Complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) eased back from last year's record, but still remain at historically high levels, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Complaints about "payday loan middlemen" – websites that take hundreds of pounds from vulnerable people on the promise of finding cheap credit – have more than doubled in the last year, the Ombudsman says.
Complaints about payday lenders have more than doubled in the last two years but the "stigma" associated with the industry is preventing many more from lodging complaints, the Financial Ombudsman Service says.
