More than 5.5m workers cut or stop their pension contributions due to impact of coronavirus and lockdown By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 7 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 7 November 2020 More than 5.5million workers have cut or completely stopped their pension contributions due to the impact of … Read more
‘It’s the end of free banking, as we know it,’ I sang to myself in the style of R.E.M earlier in the week. A perfect storm is brewing which could potentially see more and more customers charged a monthly fee for having a current account. This is a blend of coronavirus, a crackdown in overdraft … Read more
HSBC mulls overhauling its business model to charge fees for current accounts and other services as profits slump due to rock-bottom rates HSBC saw pre-tax profit fall 36% to $3.1bn (£2.4bn) and revenues fall 11% in Q3 But it set aside less money for bad loans $785m compared to $3.8bn in Q2 The bank said … Read more
Have You Been Paying Attention’s Sam Pang reveals Marty Sheargold was ‘FROGMARCHED’ out of Nova after he quit the national drive show By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:33 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 00:34 BST, 14 October 2020 He completed his final radio show for Nova last month, after revealing he … Read more
‘I’ve finally broken him’: Have You Been Paying Attention host Tom Gleisner STORMS off set after a clash with comedian Sam Pang By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:43 BST, 12 October 2020 | Updated: 23:43 BST, 12 October 2020 Tom Gleisner has been the host of Ten’s Have You Been Paying Attention? … Read more
Energy suppliers can claim to offer environmentally-friendly green tariffs by paying as little as 93p per customer per year to renewable power plants, it has emerged. Companies which supply electricity to Britons buy green energy certificates cheaply from wind farms and hydroelectric power stations. They then have the right to call their tariffs ‘renewable’, even … Read more
When is a Budget not a Budget? When it’s a Winter Economic Plan. Rishi Sunak’s final throw of the dice late last month to prevent a jump in unemployment numbers filled some with fear and others with hope. But all agreed it will have a major impact on the shape of the UK economy over … Read more
Tesco’s target of matching Aldi prices is paying off as its popularity among shoppers is on the rise Initiatives such as its Aldi Price Match promise ramped up its appeal, UBS said Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons are in better position since Covid started By Ben Harrington For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, … Read more
When is a Budget not a Budget? When it’s a Winter Economic Plan. Rishi Sunak’s final throw of the dice late last month to prevent a jump in unemployment numbers filled some with fear and others with hope. But all agreed it will have a major impact on the shape of the UK economy over … Read more
Back in December, when most of us had never heard of coronavirus, our existing mortgage deal expired and it was time to find a new one. At the time, the Bank of England base rate — on which interest charges are based — had been steady at 0.75 per cent for over a year, having … Read more