Banking
Tying your money to a good r...
Investors looking for a home for more than £1,000 can buy special bonds paying market-leading returns from high street names like John Lewis, Tesco Bank and Lloyds TSB. The bonds pay a be...
Barclays savers paid 0.1% wh...
Barclays has paid out a whopping £9.25 million in bonuses to chief executive Bob Diamond and former chief executive John Varley – but this generosity is not reflected in interest and bonus...
Lib Dem plan for free bank s...
A new proposal could see British taxpayers becoming shareholders in Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland. Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams has backed a plan to distribute shares in the...
Ombudsman reports surge in c...
A new report from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) reveals that complaints about banks and other financial institutions increased by 15 per cent in the last six months of 2010, compared to the fi...