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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101 things you were afraid to ask about money
The existence of a "credit blacklist" containing the names of people who have fallen out of favour with lenders, is one of the most persistent myths of the money world.
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Watchdog reveals tax credit fiasco
The government is preparing to write off almost £1bn of overpaid tax credits following a series of errors and fraudulent claims that have dogged the much-publicised...
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