The Lloyds Banking Group – Who are they? We regularly hear them being mentioned as one of the big four UK banks alongside Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland, but who are the Lloyds Banking Group? Well, as is probably obvious by the name, it’s a group of banks under one company. So let’s […]
Clydesdale Bank boss gets a bonus We recently brought you news that the owner of Clydesdale Bank, and Yorkshire Bank, was looking to sell the two and leave the UK market. This has been on the back of numerous scandals that the owner of the banks, the National Australia Bank (NAB), believes has become too […]
PPI fines from 2005 to present day Everybody has heard about the PPI mis-selling scandal haven’t they? If you haven’t, where have you been? Whilst the vast majority of us have heard of PPI, how many actually know what it is, how it was mis-sold, and the reasons it was mis-sold? If you’d like to […]
Average UK adult due £600 in PPI compensation With over £16.6 billion already paid out to UK consumers who’ve made a claim for the mis-selling of PPI, and the banks continuing to add to the compensation pot, we’ve done a little bit of number crunching. As mentioned in a previous post, it’s looking increasingly likely […]
M&S announce new finance director (with a history of PPI mis-selling) Marks & Spencer Money, the finance arm of the luxury supoermarket brand, yesterday announced the appointment of a new finance director. Helen Weir will join the business from the John Lewis Partnership early next year, on a salary of almost £600,000 per year on […]
How long has PPI got left to run? Let’s face it, the PPI scandal seems to have been around for years doesn’t it? If you haven’t received a spam call or text about it, where have you been?! Whilst we’re on that subject, never ever deal with a company who uses such tactics as spam […]