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Alistair Darling has proposed tougher new reforms to the financial system specifically targeting UK banks. Stricter regulations will be introduced with a view to giving the customer much greater consumer protection.
In a statement to the House of Commons, Alistair Darling said the financial system needed to ensure robust regulation, and banks and financial institutions should [...]

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Payment Protection insurance (PPI) is often mis-sold as a result of greedy financial services looking to make an easy and tidy profit. PPI is usually sold by financial institutions such as banks, money lenders, car finance companies, Credit Card companies and the like. PPI has been a profitable business for some time now and only [...]

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The Financial Ombudsman Service, which adjudicates on consumer complaints, says on average it processes complaints within six months. However this is not always the case, for Elizabeth and Keith Birbeck their  mortgage endowment mis-selling claim has taken almost 5 years for a conclusion to be reached.
Nationwide Building Society was forced to make a payment of [...]

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