Ed Miliband has promised a major reform of the banking sector if Labour wins the 2015 general election, saying there will be a “reckoning” among the...
With just over a year until the 2015 general election, battle lines are being drawn by the major political parties. This week, Ed Miliband will set...
George Osborne has said that the government will be reducing the cost of energy bills by cutting back on green levies. Appearing on The Andrew Marr...
The government has denied reports that it has asked energy firms to freeze household bills until after the next general election. The BBC reported that ministers...
MPs and other parliamentary staff now have the option to pay into a credit union directly from their wages, thanks to a new service launched on...
The government is to introduce new legislation that will see the cost of taking out a payday loan capped, after a cross-party group of MPs backed...
Unite, the UK’s biggest union, has launched a new credit union service in a bid to challenge payday lenders and other organisations that “[try] to make...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned consumers that energy and water bill increases are expected to last much longer than expected, adding that prices could...
EDF has become the fifth of the big six energy companies to announce an energy price hike. Although the lowest increase yet at 3.9%, the firm...
HMRC has announced that it will be launching an initiative to provide guidance for young people in an effort to strengthen their certainty about pay rights....
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said that the so-called “Wonga economy” is one of the worst aspects of the cost of living crisis, with payday lenders...
Thirteen long-term investors have called on the publicly listed companies they invest in to pay all employees the living wage, which was increased this week to...
A new report by tax and auditing firm KPMG says that one in five workers in the UK are being paid less than the living wage,...
Overseas investors would be “delighted” to invest in the controversial HS2 high speed rail project, according to Pippa Malmgren, president of Principalis Asset Management. Speaking at...
Payday lenders such as Wonga, QuickQuid and Payday UK have been criticised by consumer groups, politicians and even the archbishop of Canterbury in recent weeks, over...