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Competition and Markets Authority to embark on most detailed analysis of sector for a decade, looking into how banks treat small business and personal customers
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Figures show sector worth three-and-a-half times more than 2001, with new pension rules likely to see more money flow in
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Insurer says more than 50% of fraudulent motor injury claims are being made by organised gangs
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Early Christmas presents for some passengers after supreme court throws out two test cases against Thomson and Jet2
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Minister calls on petrol firms and supermarkets to combat the ‘rocket and feather effect’
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Government says it will share information with credit reference agencies from March 2015
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Bar staff and shop assistants among those most likely to live hand to mouth because of low pay, warns report
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Culture secretary says he could force firms to end ‘not-spots’ despite concerns it could make it harder to track terrorists
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A historic legal ruling says 5 million people could be eligible for backdated holiday pay, but don’t expect anything yet
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Building society becomes first institution to offer app for smartwatches – but will demand be there?
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TV star and owner of ‘gigantic’ house in London says he would face a ‘colossal tax aimed at foreigners’ if levy is introduced
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Work advice: I’ve been offered training to become an accountant, but I hate the industry and want to get out. I have a family to support
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Property advice: I have saved £40,000 but am not sure whether to repay my mortgage, buy a bigger share or buy a property to let
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Danny Alexander says consumers would be justifiably angry if pump prices are not reduced as much as they should be
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Plus ruling means workers could be eligible for backdated holiday pay and where to get the best Christmas toy deals
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MPs requested system review after inquiry revealed ‘persistent miscalculation’ of money paid out in loans that will not be repaid
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‘Depression babies’ must not run away from investing in stocks because it is their safest long-term bet, says Patrick O’Shaughnessy, the author of Millennial Money
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In California, fracking is taking the water that farmers need – and it’s no anomaly. There is a water conflict looming between industry and agriculture
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Congress needs to get back to work, says the former Maine Republican who has set up Olympia’s List to encourage candidates who can put partisanship behind them
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Dream Toys list also predicts strong showing for film tie-ins, including Benny’s Spaceship from Lego Movie
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It warned of a problem and then asked me to click the link
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Firms will have time to adapt to the ruling around higher holiday pay – just as they got used to a national minimum wage
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Cybersecurity platform Soltra Edge follows hacking attack on JPMorgan Chase that exposed contact details of 73m households and 7m small businesses
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Howard Beckett, the legal director for the Unite union, says an employment appeal tribunal ruling to include overtime in holiday pay will not open the floodgates to historic payments