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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Business leaders understand cost of living crisis better than politicians

    Queen’s Speech should have contained measures to tackle worsening living standards

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    James Max
    Rich People’s Problems: My debt is becoming an albatross

    ‘By the time I got to the checkout I was presented with a bill for £210. How on earth did that happen?’

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Martin Lewis urges reform of UK’s ‘dangerous’ credit card rules

    Chancellor backs consumer rights campaigner’s call to ensure more borrowers get the advertised rate of interest

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
    Does the cost of living crisis explain the leap in borrowing?

    Bank of England stats out Monday show the use of credit cards is soaring.

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    UK credit card debt hits record high as inflation and cost of living bite

    Consumers borrowed £1.5bn net in February — the highest monthly figure since statistics began in 1993

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    UK households feel the pain of inflation

    Some consumers raid their savings to cope with big jumps in fuel and food bills

  • Saturday, 8 January, 2022
    Savings
    UK household finances strong in face of inflation and spending increase

    But poor families remain under acute pressure

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Rise in UK consumer credit points to economic uptick in November

    Some economists warn that inflation increase is driving growth in household borrowing

  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Teaching personal finance with hair extensions

    Ex-banker wins teaching prize with novel lessons on the cost of consumer credit

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Why should I let my landlord spy on my finances?

    Buy-to-let landlords are subjecting renters to new levels of financial scrutiny

  • Friday, 17 September, 2021
    US & Canadian companies
    Will Covid and Klarna kill the credit card?

    Britons’ love affair with their ‘flexible friend’ appears to be on the rocks, as buy now, pay later deals emerge

  • Friday, 10 September, 2021
    Serious MoneyStefan Wagstyl
    The FT’s financial literacy campaign: Courtney Love and other reader responses

    Launch of FLIC draws hundreds of messages of support — and strong opinions about the best way forward

  • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Pay-later credit services need regulating now

    Innovators have made online shopping easier but created new risks

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Covid leaves students with a bitter financial legacy

    Those at university have struggled in lockdown and their money problems are likely to persist beyond graduation day

  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    Money MentorLindsay Cook
    Is the Financial Ombudsman getting it right?

    Thousands of consumers have been left dissatisfied and the backlog of cases is growing

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Personal Finance
    How culture shapes our money mentality

    Human behaviour is much less predictable — or rational — than the finance industry likes to think

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    Money MentorLindsay Cook
    Covid’s hidden impact on your credit credentials

    Missed mortgage payments now appear on credit references in the UK

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    Inside BusinessPatrick Jenkins
    The pernicious potential of ‘buy now pay later’ finance

    Innovative credit is clever and useful but in urgent need of proper regulation

  • Monday, 15 March, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    Provident’s scheme spells the end of the local doorstep lender

    Subprime group tries to cap liabilities as regulatory tide turns against model

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Personal Finance
    Klarna warns of delays to ‘buy now pay later’ credit rules

    FCA plans depend on credit agencies collating new financial data on customers

  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    LexUK retail industry
    Next/consumer credit: the loan view Premium content

    Shoppers offer hope that debt-fuelled consumption is creeping back, but households are still deleveraging

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Barclays PLC
    Barclays fined £26m over treatment of borrowers in arrears

    Bank did not have ‘appropriate conversations’ with customers who were in financial difficulty, says regulator

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Personal Finance
    Online fraud surges ahead of Black Friday

    Attempted payment frauds 385 per cent higher than a year ago

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Personal Finance
    Consumers’ credit complaints jump over summer

    Claims management companies have driven a big rise in successful claims to the regulator, experts say

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Loan ‘holidays’ extended to six months after new English lockdown

    FCA confirms borrowers will be able to seek relief from mortgage and loan payments

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