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Following a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation, thousands of leaseholders will be freed from expensive contract terms with housing developer Countryside Properties.The CMA said that...

One silver lining of stay-at-home orders has been a fall in burglaries and catastrophic leaks, with a resulting drop in home insurance premiums. But as the economy reopens and we venture back to work...

Bank transfer scams fleeced Brits of £355.3 million in the first half of 2021, the first time that figure has exceeded the money stolen through credit card fraud.There were a total of 106,164 cases of...

American investment bank JP Morgan is launching an assault on the UK retail banking market, with a new app-only current account operating under its Chase brand.Chase is the largest consumer bank in...

The Co-operative Bank’s brand Platform has lowered the bar on mortgages still further, launching a 0.79% loan that’s the cheapest ever offered in the UK.The mortgage price war has been escalating for...

The post-pandemic house price boom could get a further boost next year, as average mortgage rates dip still further.Consultants Capital Economics projects that the average mortgage interest rate will...

Brits have left £246.5 billion languishing in accounts paying zero interest, losing more than £1 billion in interest every year.While savings rates have melted during the pandemic, savers shouldn’t...

Digital bank Monzo is entering the controversial buy now, pay later (BNPL) market with its new Flex service which allows users to borrow up to £3,000.Monzo says it has taken “the best bits” of BNPL,...

More than 33,000 Britons fell victim to devious impersonation scams in the first six months of this year, tricked into sending nearly £130 million to criminals pretending to be trusted...

Hundreds of consumers have claimed that overzealous banks have frozen their accounts and blocked payments over inflated worries about money laundering and fraud, according to complaints website...