Financial consultants involved in advising local authorities to take high-risk investments in Icelandic banks that subsequently failed are now advising councils on Libor rate-rigging losses, despite...
Current account customers could be losing thousands of pounds a year just by being with a bank that is wrong for them, with some overdraft charges...
New research has suggested that most customers are choosing to switch current accounts based on the bank’s reputation and customer service, despite larger banks trying to...
The Co-operative Bank is to exit existing banking relationships with local authority customers in an effort to focus its attention on individuals and small and medium...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is reportedly holding informal talks with 21 firms that want to apply to launch new banks. Speaking at a banking conference...
We will “[continue] to have regard for the highest standards of ethical principles”, the Co-operative Bank stated in an advert on Monday. This is despite being...
High street lender Metro Bank has said it has seen a 100% increase in customers switching from other current account providers, thanks chiefly to the new...
The Payments Council has revealed that 89,000 banking customers have switched their current accounts using the new switching scheme that was launched mid-September, but consumer groups...
Consumer complaints reported by financial services firms fell by 500,000 between the second half of 2012 and the first half of 2013, according to the Financial...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
Banking does not have to be evil. It is absurd that we even have to say those seven words, but the last five years of scandals...
A private equity consortium, backed by the Church of England, has bought upto half of the former Williams & Glyn’s branches from the Royal Bank of...
The current account switching service, launched on September 16, has made “a great start”, according to the body behind it. Campaigners, however, argue that it is...
Something that most people can agree on is that banking culture has to change, but a fresh perspective is needed, writes a graduate analyst working at...
If you want to make use of the new current account switching service to make a fresh start with a new bank, but you’re not sure...