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November 13, 2014 
Daniel Lee Foreign exchange rate fines – In context It has today been announced that five banks have been fined a total of £2 billion following an investigation into the manipulation and fixing of the foreign exchange rates (known as forex within the industry). Of the £2 billion fine, £1.1 billion has been handed out by the […]
November 11, 2014 Daniel Lee First Direct PPI Claims – The story First Direct is an online and telephone based retail bank headquartered in Leeds, UK. It is a division of HSBC Bank plc and has been in operation since 1989. First Direct bank was the first bank in the UK to offer banking services without any branches. This was […]
November 10, 2014 Daniel Lee Owner of Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks looking to ditch Back in 1987 when the National Australia Bank (NAB), bought Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, they couldn’t possibly have known of the scandals that would follow. Seen as a sound investment, and a way into the lucrative UK market, the Australians must have believed that purchasing the […]
November 7, 2014 Daniel Lee HFC mis-sold PPI HFC stands for Household Finance Corp, a finance company founded in the United States during 1878. HFC claimed to be the first finance company to offer consumers the chance to repay their loan in instalments rather than a lump sum on the due date. In the early 1980s, HFC was restructured and […]
November 7, 2014 Daniel Lee Sainsburys PPI Claims – An insight Sainsbury’s was the first of the major British supermarkets to provide financial services. Sainsbury’s Bank began trading on 19th February 1997 and was launched as a joint venture between Sainsbury’s and the Bank of Scotland, which later became part of the Lloyds Banking Group. Sainsbury’s Bank has over one […]
June 8, 2015 Daniel Lee Big Four Banks Under Investigation It may be long overdue but it appears the dominance and monopoly of the big four banks is to be investigated. For far too long now, Lloyds Banking Group (including Halifax and Bank of Scotland), RBS / Natwest, Barclays and HSBC have dominated the high streets when it comes to […]
