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Halifax has revealed that house prices in September showed the strongest monthly rise since 2007.September’s rise reversed the decline in annual growth that had been recorded over the previous three...

NatWest faces a fine of up to £340 million after admitting it failed to properly monitor the account of a Bradford jeweller laundering hundreds of millions of pounds, in the first criminal prosecution...

Two major insurers have resumed offering reimbursement to customers forced to cancel holidays due to Covid-19, after limiting coverage in the first weeks of the pandemic.UK Insurance, owners of the...

Another week, another attention-grabbing mortgage offer, this time from Yorkshire Building Society.Just days after the Co-operative Bank’s Platform arm launched a 0.79% two-year fix, Yorkshire BS said...

A team of researchers has identified security weaknesses in both Visa and Apple Pay that could enable hackers to perform unlimited contactless payments without needing to unlock the device.The...

Housing charity Crisis has warned that the government’s £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit will put at least 100,000 renters at risk of eviction in England.Since the start of the pandemic, the number...

Landlords can now benefit from the price war between mortgage lenders, with Nationwide’s the Mortgage Works launching the first sub-1% buy-to-let products.Cash-flush lenders have been shattering...

Thousands of homeowners are trapped in flats that cannot be sold or remortgaged despite the government’s attempts to convince banks to forgo fire-safety checks on low-rise apartments.In July, the...

The movement of customers to online banking has prompted another bank to close the doors of some of its high street branches.Virgin Money will shut 31 of its 162 branches in early 2022. The bank,...

Consumers worried they’re being conned can now dial 159 to be connected to their bank and receive advice, in a new pilot scheme to tackle the epidemic of bank transfer scams.Anti-fraud coalition Stop...