Current Accounts

The Banks Are Not Off the Hook

Richard Lloyd | Posted 01.04.2013 | UK Politics
Richard Lloyd

The market power of the largest players has increased - and not because they have provided better customer service or value-for-money products, but because of government subsidies and bailouts. The result is that it's now almost impossible for smaller providers to gain a foothold in the market.

TSB Brand To Return - But For How Long?

Charlie Thomas | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK

Millions of Lloyds Banking Group customers are at risk of confusion after Huffington Post UK discovered customers could find their branches rebranded ...

Charlie Thomas

'We Were Stupid, We Were Silly, Now Let's Move On'

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 18.10.2012 | UK

The chairmen of five of the high street's biggest banks today appealed to their industry to accept their wrongdoing and continue work to rebuild a sen...

Charlie Thomas

Would You Change Banks If You Could Keep Your Account Number?

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK

Consumer lobbyist group Which? has joined forces with Andrea Leadsom MP to call on banks to introduce portable account numbers. Research conducted ...

Would You Trust Your Money To A Department Store?

Posted 29.08.2012 | UK

Consumers have become so disillusioned with banks that three-quarters would trust their cash to a department store, according to new research. In a...

Fraudsters Target Current Accounts

Press Association | Posted 26.09.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Current accounts have become the financial product most targeted by fraudsters after a surge in bogus applications this year, acc...