The average debt of UK households including mortgage repayments edged lower in June, according to new research.
UK property values fell by 0.
Property values in England and Wales were 8.
Britain's savers could be missing out on up to £9.
The default retirement age (DRA) of 65 will be scrapped by October 2011 under plans announced by the government.
Lloyds TSB has announced it is to improve its student account package for 2010.
Coventry Building Society has unveiled a new Bank of England base rate tracker bond.
Leeds Building Society has announced it has launched a three per cent cashback mortgage.
Barnsley Building Society has announced the release of a new online fixed-rate individual savings account (Isa).
Barclays has announced it is to cut rates on its 80 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) Woolwich mortgages.
Santander has announced it is to reward its customers with the release of a new loyalty tracker bond.
Santander has announced it has increased the rate on its eSaver issue 2 account.
Gross mortgage lending hit £13.
Britain's homeowners reduced their collective mortgage debt by £3.
Standard home insurance policies contain significant variations in terms of cover and property owners should shop around to find a policy that covers their individual needs, according to moneysupermarket.
In a climate of rising fraud levels, car insurance providers are doing everything they can to help motorists, it has been claimed.
Cases of insurance fraud hit a record high last year, with companies in the sector detecting an average of 2,300 bogus claims worth over £16 million every week.
Fraudulent claims are causing car insurance premiums to climb at the fastest pace on record, according to the AA.
Many banks and building societies are failing to keep customers informed about changes in the interest rates for their saving accounts, according to new research.
Ministers should scrap taxation on the first £5,000 of interest on saving deposits in order to counterbalance the impact of inflation, a campaign group has argued.
Basic rate taxpayers need to find saving accounts with interest rates of at least four per cent if they want to avoid seeing their money eroded by inflation, it has been claimed.
Investors have been told that they should look to put their money into investment options that are able to produce an income.
The second quarter of 2010 has been predicted as likely to be the best of the year in terms of investment and general market conditions.
Record numbers of Britons are switches their ISA savings from cash to equities accounts, according to reports.
The number of homes in the UK valued at £1 million or more has increased by 393 per cent in the past decade, according to a new report.
Nearly one in two (45 per cent) adults is somewhat or very dissatisfied with the size of their retirement savings, a new poll has found.
Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of people over 50 are more worried about their financial future than they were 12 months ago, a new survey has shown.
Pension minister Steve Webb has proposed linking private retirement funds to the consumer prices index (CPI) to create a "more appropriate measure of pension recipients' inflation experiences".
Unsecured lending from the UK's high street banks was subdued last month as repayments outweighed new borrowing, according to the latest industry figures.
Consumer credit lending by banks and building societies topped £34.
The government is to review the UK's consumer credit market, it has been announced.
Britons are putting their best stiff upper lip forward and adapting to "the age of austerity" ushered in by the financial crisis and recession, according to new research.
High street sales beat expectations in July with a robust performance compared to 12 months earlier, according to a new report.
Consumers are typically receiving only a fraction of the broadband speeds advertised by their internet service providers (ISPs), according to a new report.
Payday loans - the once seedy side of the credit market - have undergone an image transformation in the last few weeks.
It came as no surprise when the coalition government announced the scrapping of the Child Trust Fund (CTF) scheme.
If there has been one shard of light to emerge from the recession it is that our children seem to have learnt a very important lesson.
There was some great news for first-time buyers recently when the government announced it would be suspending stamp duty for anyone making their first property purchase.
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