Hard-hit savers face more income falls as banks and building societies make further cuts to their interest rates.

House prices have recorded their biggest monthly rebound in more than two-and-a-half years, the Nationwide said today.

Britain's biggest building society today announced plans to push up its mortgage rates for new borrowers.

House prices have recorded their biggest year-on-year decline in almost three years amid the toughening economy, Nationwide building society said today.

Nationwide and NatWest say they have fixed IT glitches that left customers overdrawn or unable to access their accounts.

After another week of banking shenanigans, one poll suggested that 75 per cent of us would like to move our current accounts to a better provider. But who? Given that our mattresses offer a very poor rate of interest, the question of where we should take our banking business becomes increasingly vexed.

Nationwide and NatWest both said they have fixed separate IT hitches which caused more financial chaos for customers this week.

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House prices have climbed over the month for the first time in almost two years.

House prices climbed by 0.2 per cent last month – the first rise in nearly two years.

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It's been a hectic week on the savings front, with much of the activity in the ISA sector. However, away from the jostling in the tax-free best buy tables, there was an eye-catching return to the savings arena from Investec Bank.

If you go into the red, it’s almost impossible to work out how much it will cost you. Consumer group Which? put that to the test and asked volunteers – including a maths PHD student – to calculate the charges of an unauthorised overdraft for four different banks.

House prices fell by 0.6 per cent in August, according to Nationwide Building Society, wiping out the 0.3 per cent gain identified by the mortgage lender in July. The average UK house now costs £165,914.