Net gain for Sunday trade
Sunday is now the busiest online trading day of the week. According to research from an online payment service, it processes 50 per cent more transactions, through retail...
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Watchdog to crack down
The chief City regulator this week signalled a crackdown on banks and credit card firms that mis-sell payment protection insurance.
Reacting to intense criticism of the ...
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Judge attacks 'scandalous' CPS blunders in fraud case
A fraud and corruption prosecution which has run up about £10m in legal costs collapsed yesterday because of "wilful" prosecution failures branded "quite scandalous"...
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Plan to use phones as credit cards
More than half of Japan's 85 million mobile phone users could soon be ditching the plastic and using their handsets as electronic credit cards.
According to reports, NTT...
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Get a fix on your finances
If you're thinking of starting the long road to securing yourself a place at university in 2006, then there's but one guarantee when it comes to the cash. It's going to b...
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Reuters investors urged to vote Sinclair off board
Anglo-American corporate governance activists are demanding that investors block the re-election of Charles Sinclair, the chief executive of the Daily Mail, as a non-exec...
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Lloyds TSB expands Islamic finance scheme
Lloyds TSB today continued the expansion of its pilot scheme to offer Islamic financial products, with the introduction of sharia-compliant products to its Southampton br...
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O2 investors top 50% profit on shares
More than 833,000 small investors in the mobile phone operator O2 were set for a large payout today after cashing in their shares at a premium rate.
O2, which changed it...
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Perennial problem with annual policies
We planned to take a holiday from 23 November, so, on 8 November, I bought Marks & Spencer's annual travel insurance. On 17 November, my brother-in-law died suddenl...
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Why you can lose more at cards
Chip and pin was heralded by credit card companies as the best way of ending fraudulent use of credit and debit cards. But so far it has only added to the problem.
Loss...
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