Call for transparency on loan cover
Consumers who buy payment protection insurance (PPI) from their loan provider could pay almost five times as much for cover as those who shop around, according to researc...
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Credit-card fraudsters target internet
Credit-card fraudsters are increasingly turning to the internet now that the "chip and pin" system has closed other money-making avenues, new figures show.
"Card-not-pre...
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FSA warns of insurance mis-selling risk
The City watchdog today told financial services firms to take urgent action over the way they sell payment protection insurance (PPI).
The warning followed a mystery sho...
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Stars and their cars targeted in Bollywood tax crackdown
Tax authorities have impounded the luxury cars of top Bollywood stars in a crackdown on ostentatious wealth that has seen the rich and famous scurrying for cover in the c...
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Trio jailed for £300,000 fraud on eBay 'idiots
A couple were jailed yesterday after defrauding thousands of customers around the world through the internet auction site eBay. In what one detective described as the big...
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Royal Mail loses finance director as liberalisation of post looms
Royal Mail's finance director, Marisa Cassoni, is to leave the group at the end of the year - just ahead of full liberalisation of the postal market, the company announce...
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Taxman closes in on star bankers' bonuses
The government has set a deadline of December for City firms to hand over hundreds of millions of pounds of tax they allegedly avoided when paying bonuses to star bankers...
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Spend to mend
Giving to charity doesn't always involve handing over hard cash. You can support your favourite causes indirectly, through charity shops, credit cards, savings accounts a...
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Chip cards fail to pin down fraudsters
Anyone using a chip and Pin card to withdraw money from cash machines will continue to be at risk from fraud, despite being forced to use Pins for all transactions from n...
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Revealed: Britain's network of child drug runners
Joe had just celebrated his 15th birthday when his father asked him to join the family business: selling heroin and crack cocaine. With time on his hands after being excl...
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