With brazen attempts to mystify, manipulate or downright mislead customers, it is little wonder that the public confidence in big business is so low
Category: Aggregator
This Is Money: New Water Profits Warning
Investors in water companies will next week be given a stark warning that regulators plan to claw back excess profits with an aggressive price review.
This Is Money: Chip And Pin Faces Secret Challenge
Top accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers is pushing a new security technology to banks and internet firms that it says could replace chip and Pin
This Is Money: £24bn Tax Windfall ‘spent’
Gordon Brown is on course to blow a £24.5 billion tax windfall, according to the independent Item Club.
Scotsman: Time Is Money In Pension Cutbacks
A LOCK is ticking on a pensions time bomb which will explode in April, shattering the retirement dreams of millions of employees.
Scotsman: Failure To Cut Business Tax Spells Disaster
WHO needs horror stories when nanny has shooed the goblins away?
Scotsman: Watchdog Breaks Conspiracy Of Silence Over Sweeteners
A EW weeks ago we expressed concern about schemes offering employees cash sweeteners to encourage them to sell their valuable company pensions cheaply.
Scotsman: Become Your Own Banker And Find Top Savings Rates
IT’S been an unusual 10 months in the savings world. With only one base rate move, savers would have been forgiven for giving a little cheer as interest rates crept up 0.25% in August, but not all was as it seemed.
Scotsman: Mortgage Blunder Hits 7,000 Bank Customers
THOUSANDS of Bank of Scotland mortgage customers found themselves out of pocket last week after the bank took repeated mortgage repayments from their bank accounts.
Scotsman: New Mis-selling Claims To Follow Pensions Advice
LIFE and pensions companies could face substantial compensation claims in a new wave of mis-selling appeals.