Barclays

More than 90% of First Direct's current account customers rate its service as 'great', so it's little wonder it has yet again secured the top spot in our biannual banking poll.

Lloyds Bank is the worst of the major banks and building societies for wrongly rejecting both payment protection insurance (PPI) and other banking complaints, new figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service show.

The euro has weakened even further over the past week. It now sits at a paltry £1 buying €1.33 at the spot rate (and £1 buys €1.33 at the best travel money rate too). This would've been unthinkable last year when you'd have done well to get €1.20 and two years ago when €1.15 would've been worth whooping about.

A basic bank account with no fees for failed payments or dipping into unauthorised overdrafts has been unveiled following an agreement between Britain's major lenders and the Government.

The chairman of the Treasury Select Committee has written to Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS and Santander asking for more information about fraud figures after the committee heard evidence the 'banks may be understating the level of fraud in the banking system' .

Three million Barclays customers will be moved from old savings products to the firm's Everyday Saver in February 2015 as the bank culls off-sale products.

The limit for transferring money by Faster Payments with your bank is £100,000, yet many banks set the limit much lower – sometimes as low as £10,000.

HSBC has set aside an additional £353 million to pay for payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling claims, the bank announced today.

The RBS Group is putting aside a further £100 million to cover compensation payouts for customers mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), it was announced today.