VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Keep driving hard bargains on insurance

Despite watchdog ordering insurers to stop exploiting loyal customers, it is vital to continue shopping around, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:26 BST, 1 June 2021 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 1 June 2021 At last! Insurers have finally been ordered to stop ruthlessly exploiting loyal customers by the City … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Helping you get more from your money for 125 years

As the Daily Mail celebrates its 125th anniversary this week, my eye is drawn to the first-ever Money Mail front page hanging in my office. We are the oldest national newspaper personal finance section. Launched in September 1966, our goal was to help ordinary families make sense of the financial world and get the most … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Time for travel firms to play fair on refunds

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: It’s time for travel and events firms to start playing fair on refunds By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 6 April 2021 At the start of the first lockdown, we urged readers to be patient and not to chase refunds. Businesses had … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Is increasing the contactless limit to £100 wise?

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: With the contactless limit set to increase to £100… is it becoming too easy to splurge? By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 March 2021 Spending money has never been so easy. Just a quick tap of your card and you’re away. … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Generation rent – The buyers left behind

The buyers left behind: Generation rent don’t want 95% mortgages – they want house prices to come down, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 Generation rent don’t want 95 per cent mortgages – they want house prices to … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Clean up the mess over missing child trust funds

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Lost child trust funds that could make the world of difference to so many young people By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 23 February 2021 If young adults ever needed a windfall, it’s now. Many have lost a year of education and … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Government must step in to stop a cashtastrophe

Stop this cashtastrophe: Government must step in to protect a vital payment method, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:24 GMT, 2 February 2021 | Updated: 22:24 GMT, 2 February 2021 It has been more than two years since a damning report warned that Britain was in danger of sleepwalking … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Insurers risk losing people’s trust for good

The small-print villains: Insurers risk losing what little trust people have left in them for good, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 22:24 GMT, 22 December 2020 Some firms have really gone above and beyond for their customers over the course of the … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Spend now – regret later

Spend now – regret later: Retailers desperate for sales should remember they have a moral responsibility too, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 15 December 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 15 December 2020 New Look used to be one of my favourite High Street haunts as a teenager. … Read more