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Santander has slashed the perks on its flagship current account, a change that will cost its four million account holders up to £100 a year.From 5 May 2020, the interest rate on the bank’s popular 123...

Rents increased by an inflation-busting 3.5% in the year to December 2019 and could rise even faster in 2020, according to HomeLet’s Rental Index.The average rental price increase was above the rate...

People in the UK will be banned from using credit cards to put on bets, the Gambling Commission has announced. In 2018, several charities including Citizens Advice and GambleAware called on the...

Victims who are tricked into transferring money into accounts controlled by criminals see less than half of their lost funds returned, despite a new compensation scheme from banks.Shieldpay found that...

A record number of Londoners are fleeing the increasingly expensive capital to live in the north of the country, according to a report. Recent data from estate agent Hamptons International has...

The number of second homes bought in the UK dropped by 2% between 2010 and 2018, according to new research. Data compiled by Swinton Insurance revealed a slight drop in the number of second home...

Customers of app-based bank Tandem will have to shell out £5.99 a month to use their previously free cashback credit cards, or lose the card entirely.Tandem closed its popular cashback card to new...

The Scottish Government’s deadline for providing every home and business in the country with superfast broadband has been pushed back by two years. The SNP had previously promised access to superfast...

Banks will have to set one rate across all easy-access savings accounts which have been open for more than a year, under new proposals from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).Banks would be able to...

Annual retail sales fell last year for the first time since records began in 1995, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The UK’s top trading association for the retail industry revealed...