Owner of Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks looking to ditch Back in 1987 when the National Australia Bank (NAB), bought Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, they couldn’t possibly have known of the scandals that would follow. Seen as a sound investment, and a way into the lucrative UK market, the Australians must have believed that purchasing the […]
HFC mis-sold PPI HFC stands for Household Finance Corp, a finance company founded in the United States during 1878. HFC claimed to be the first finance company to offer consumers the chance to repay their loan in instalments rather than a lump sum on the due date. In the early 1980s, HFC was restructured and […]
Sainsburys PPI Claims – An insight Sainsbury’s was the first of the major British supermarkets to provide financial services. Sainsbury’s Bank began trading on 19th February 1997 and was launched as a joint venture between Sainsbury’s and the Bank of Scotland, which later became part of the Lloyds Banking Group. Sainsbury’s Bank has over one […]
Big Four Banks Under Investigation It may be long overdue but it appears the dominance and monopoly of the big four banks is to be investigated. For far too long now, Lloyds Banking Group (including Halifax and Bank of Scotland), RBS / Natwest, Barclays and HSBC have dominated the high streets when it comes to […]
How Far Back Can You Claim PPI? You may have been mis-sold PPI many, many years ago by your bank or lender. You may have only just realised you’ve been sold PPI, or you may just be wondering whether or not you were all those years ago. But, you’ve got an issue, a question that […]
HSBC PPI compensation bill up as further scandals unveiled Scandal, scandal and more scandal involving UK banks. Following on from my previous posts last week, which brought news that Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have been caught rigging the £3 TRILLION a day foreign exchange rates, it comes as little surprise that HSBC have […]