Over the past few weeks a couple of stories have caught my eye which have shown the strength that people power can have on large corporations (and in this case I’m talking about banks and building societies). Firstly, it’s difficult to go a single day without hearing someone talking about reclaiming bank charges – it’s […]
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Nationwide Customers Pay 8p Each For Data Loss
This is kind of ironic – Nationwide customers will end up paying the £1million fine that the company got for the a loss of data back in August, stolen from an employees laptop. Because the Nationwide is a mutual building society, its customers own the company, rather than shareholders, so they’ll end up picking up […]
Personal Finance Forums
Online forums can be a great source of information – learning from people in similar positions, and being able to ask questions that are specific to yourself. It obviously pays to be a little bit careful with the information that is presented on forums, though. Although I don’t visit too many personal finance forums, my […]
Ignore “Backwards PIN” Nonsense
The ThisIsMoney blog has mentioned something that I was made aware of in an email a few weeks ago – a rumour that you can notify the police you’re being mugged by typing your PIN in backwards at a cash machine. Although these types of rumour are probably propogated by welling-meaning folk, this is of […]
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MoneyExpert: ‘Over Half’ Of Homeowner Loans Protected From Rate Rise
Some 53 per cent of homeowner loans held with building societies will not be affected by the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) recent base rate rise, it has been claimed.
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