Consumer confidence up but o...

April 14, 2011

Consumer morale saw a limited recovery in March, according to new figures from Nationwide Building Society. Nationwide’s consumer confidence index, which uses survey results to assign a scaled n...

Savers still struggling to b...

April 13, 2011

Savers in Britain are still struggling to find accounts that beat the rise in the cost of living, despiteinflation falling in March. Even though inflation fell from 4.4 per cent to 4 per cent, one in...

Packaged bank accounts under...

April 12, 2011

Research from a leading newspaper has discovered that consumers who pay for so-called ‘packagedbank accounts’ are being offered savings rates well below the Bank of England base rate of 0....

Companies using little known...

April 12, 2011

With increasing numbers of people struggling to pay their unsecured debts including personal loans and credit cards, lenders are using a little known clause in consumer credit laws to chase paymentsfr...