Advertise on your car and make money One advertising firm is offering to pay consumers to rent advertising space on their cars, and some consumers could earn up to £1500 a year by allowing the company to advertise products and services on behalf of clients on their cars. Officials from the advertising firm have said that this ...
Not enough competition in PPI sales According to recent reports industry officials are claiming that there is not enough competition when it comes to the sale of Payment Protection Insurance, or PPI. The criticism has come from officials from the Competition Commission, and comes after a flood of complaints from consumers. The Competition Commission found that there ...
Huge fall in new car registrations According to recent report there has been a huge fall in the number of new car registrations, as consumers battle to try and weather the effects of the global credit crunch and the slowing economy. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has announced that September saw new car ...
Huge fine for A&L over PPI According to recent reports the lender Alliance and Leicester has received a record fine over the mis-selling of PPI or Payment Protection Insurance. The UK's financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority, has fined the lender £7 million as a result of mis-selling PPI over a period of three years. This ...
Water firms receive record number of complaints According to an industry watchdog complaints about water firms have rocketed in the past twelve months, soaring to record levels. The information comes from the Consumer Council for Water. During the financial year to April 2008 around 273,000 complaints are said to have been received by water firms. The majority of ...
Further restrictions could be brought in for PPI According to a recent report PPI sales could be subject for further restrictions following action by the Financial Ombudsman Service, which claims that the level of complaints relating to payment protection insurance has rocketed. The FOS has now called upon regulators to take action with regards to further clamping down ...
Norwich Union comes off comparison websites Insurance giant Norwich Union has decided to no longer be a part of price comparison sites, which means that consumers that now use price comparison sites to try and find good deals on their finance will not be able to view prices and deals on offer from Norwich Union. The ...
Oil prices fall but petrol goes up According to a recent report the price of petrol has actually risen again even though the cost of oil has decreased sharply. Data shows that oil prices have fallen by 40% recently, but despite this sharp fall petrol prices have risen by ten pence. Recently a number of petrol stations have ...
Couples urged to take out wedding insurance Consumers these days take out insurance to cover them for all sorts of eventualities, with policies covering everything from safety during travel to the home, to the home and even life. Couples are now being urged to take out wedding insurance to protect them against problems that may arise on ...
Vehicle insurance broker charged over unfair treat... Hastings Insurance Services, which trades as Hastings Direct, has received a fine of £735,000 over claims that it treated many of its customers unfairly. Reports claim that the fine, which was imposed by the UK's financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority, would have been over £1 million but was reduced ...
