Banking
The fight for cheques is not over, says Age UK
Age UK has written to the UK's major banks and building societies asking them to set out the steps they are taking to ensure that cheques continue to be widely accepted and easily available.
Santander offers £25 Amazon voucher plus £100 to switch
Santander is re-launching its exclusive deal for customers to get a £25 Amazon voucher when they open a Santander Preferred Current Account online via moneysupermarket.com between 8 August to 28 August, and £100 cashback if they switch using Santander's dedicated switching service.
M&S offers foreign currency refund for Holidays 4 U customers
M&S Money has confirmed it will offer a full refund for foreign currency purchased from M&S by customers who have booked holidays or flights with Holidays 4 U and are now unable to travel to or back from their holiday destination.
Northern Rock launches second annual branch contest for kids
Northern Rock is helping to keep kids entertained this summer holidays by holding a nationwide competition.
Currency exchange marketplace helps increase SME profit margins
Shrewd British SMEs are optimising turnover by around 5% by avoiding bank charges and unfavourable exchange rates, according to customers of CurrencyFair - the world's first ever peer to peer online foreign exchange marketplace.
Travel light on your honeymoon with my Travel Cash
Newlyweds are increasingly shunning the wedding list and asking for money as a wedding gift to put the cash towards a honeymoon.
Holiday overspending is on the cards for one in three
Almost one third of holidaymakers overspent on their last foreign holiday, and have a significant lack of knowledge of how withdrawing cash overseas can pile on the pounds, according to research from N&P (Norwich & Peterborough Building Society).
Turn leftover holiday coins into charity cash
The return from a Summer holiday can often mean jet-lag, sun-burn and a pocket full of foreign coins that cannot be changed back into pounds.
Who wants to be a quadrillionaire?
An incredible total of one quadrillion pounds (£1,000,000,000,000,000) has now been processed by the UK's high-value, same-day money transfer system, CHAPS, following a payment made yesterday (25 July). One quadrillion pounds is the equivalent to more than £16 million for every person in the UK.
Fee-free cash withdrawals in Spain for Santander customers
More than 12 million British people go on holiday to Spain every year and those who have their main current account with Santander can benefit from fee-free cash withdrawals when using their Visa Debit card at any of Santander's 4,300 cash machines across Spain.
Brits to spend £1.47 billion abroad this summer
As the final bells rang on the school term last week and thousands of holidaymakers jet off to sunnier climates, Barclays predicts that Friday 29 July will be the peak day for spend abroad this summer, with Brits spending £43 million overseas via debit cards on this day alone.
N&P urges ‘go for Gold' as the Olympic countdown begins
With one year to go until the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics on 27th July, N&P (Norwich and Peterborough Building Society) is urging current account holders to go for Gold and switch to an N&P Gold Classic current account.
HSBC customers can now donate to DEC via 3789 ATMs
HSBC and first direct customers can now donate vital funds to the Disasters Emergency Appeal DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal via their 3789 ATM machines nationwide, the only high street banks to provide the facility.
Holiday budgets stretched as sterling fluctuates
As the value of sterling has fluctuated, analysis from M&S Money shows its worth has slumped against five of the UK's top 10 most popular currency destinations in the last year. This means Brits will have to work harder to get more from their holiday money this summer.
Yorkshire to acquire Egg's mortgage and savings balances
Yorkshire Building Society has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Egg Banking plc, a subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., to acquire its mortgage and savings business, comprising a £2.5 billion savings book and a £430 million mortgage book.