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Five unexpected faces of financial products
Pensions trust NOW: Pensions has signed up presenter and reality TV star Stacey Solomon, to educate young people about workplace pensions. Its research shows that nearly three in five young people don't even know what a workplace pension
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Poor pay more than wealthy for utilities
Utilities and financial services markets favour the wealthy and hurt the poor, with the poorest households in the UK paying 10p in every £1 more for essential goods and services than the better off. That's according to a report called
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UK in legal challenge to FTT tax
The Government has launched a legal challenge against plans for a European financial transactions tax (FTT) amid fears it could have a damaging impact on the UK. Chancellor George Osborne said an application had been lodged at the European Court
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How to complain to the FOS
More than 264,000 formal complaints were lodged with the Financial Ombudsman in the course of a year. If you have reason to complain this year, we tell you how - and how to get the outcome you want from the FOS. Over 1.2 million complaints were
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City Watchdog: banks are a rip off
Getty Images In a speech last night, Lord Adair Turner of the Financial Services Authority laid into the banks, branding them a 'rip off and demanding they shape up and abandon their quest to be as difficult to understand as possible. He
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Report criticises reach of City finance
An in-depth new report has questioned the role of the City of London in acting as a "City state against the national settlement" which acts as a powerful political force independently of national government. And it says the real
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RBS inundated with 1,600 complaints a day
The Royal Bank of Scotland may have been bailed out by the taxpayer but its customer service will do nothing to reassure consumers. Royal Bank of Scotland Bank complaints Payment protection insurance Financial Ombudsman Complaint handling
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