Author: Nathan Bissitt

Rent-to-own retailer BrightHouse has been told to pay £14.8m to 249,000 customers by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).BrightHouse will compensate customers who had cancelled agreements after one downpayment but had not been refunded.It

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Proposals to end the equal distribution of overseas television money have been abandoned after Premier League clubs failed to reach an agreement.The six richest clubs – Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea – wanted

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Sears, the US department store chain, will stop selling most Whirlpool appliances following a dispute over pricing.The move ends a sales partnership that started more than a century ago.Sears Holdings, which also owns Kmart, said it could not agree new terms on

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia has told MPs about the “very male culture” in financial services where sexism was “pervasive”.Ms Gadhia spoke of one example from her time at Royal Bank

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Interest rates on credit cards are at their highest for at least 10 years, according to the website Moneyfacts, despite low base rates.The average rate on credit cards, including store cards and so-called “credit repair” cards, is 23% a year.Consumers are

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The weak pound has made the UK one of the world’s best-value travel destinations, according to publisher Lonely Planet.Sterling has fallen sharply against the dollar and the euro since last year after ongoing Brexit uncertainty.Lonely Planet, which is owned by

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