As the Co-operative Bank re-launches its ethical policy following a customer survey on the issues, it has extended the list of companies that the bank will...
The Co-operative party is to lead calls for a push to treble the UK membership of credit unions, in order to battle exploitative payday lenders. The...
The thinktank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is calling for regulation to be relaxed in order to allow for the creation of a network of ethical...
The number of complaints made against payday lenders has more than doubled over the past two years, new figures have revealed, as a watchdog urges customers...
Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has said it will take years for culture changes to filter through financial services firms. His...
A leading homeless charity has warned of thousands of “silent strugglers” who are turning to payday lenders in order to pay off their rent or mortgage....
The majority of Britons support a ban on all advertisements by payday loan companies, new figures released on Thursday suggest. Payday loans firms have been criticised...
A group of MPs are calling for greater restrictions on payday loan firms’ advertising strategies, after a report by the Citizens Advice Bureau revealed they were...
Almost half the population will be considering charity shops when it comes to buying Christmas presents this year, a survey has revealed, which labels constrained household...
Payday lenders have come under more fire after figures released by watchdog Ofcom found that almost 400,000 adverts for the controversial companies were shown on TV...
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...
People who put their savings into pension funds should have more say about the way in which their money is invested, as they currently have no...
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...
Representatives from three of the UK’s biggest players in the payday lending industry have appeared before MPs to answer questions after allegations of bad practice emerged....