Banking

First Direct is getting rid of the £10/month fee on its popular 1st Account current account next month.

Halifax is to change the fees it charges on its Ultimate Reward packaged bank account from November, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal. If you spend a lot on your debit card or have a high account balance you could pay less, but many who don't meet the criteria will pay more – we've full info and analysis.

First Direct and Metro Bank have jointly topped the latest official banking service league table, while RBS took the wooden spoon for the third time.

NatWest customers will be able to check their bank balance and transactions through the Google Assistant feature on their smart speakers or smartphones using just their voices, as part of a new trial. 

For the first time in decades, the Royal Mint didn't produce any new 1p or 2p coins in 2018. 

Nationwide will refund £6 million to current account customers, after failing to send customers the correct alerts warning them about unarranged overdraft fees.

Around 480,000 Monzo users need to update their app and change their PIN, after numbers were stored in files in a part of the bank's internal systems that could be accessed by some of its staff.

RBS and NatWest have promised to fix an issue which has seen some debit card customers charged foreign purchase fees when buying products from Apple UK's online store.

Hundreds of ATMs at Santander branches in Spain are charging UK customers with current accounts at the bank to withdraw cash, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal – even though withdrawals for Santander customers at Santander branches are usually free.

Less than two months after the financial regulator announced that fixed daily and monthly overdraft fees will be replaced with a single interest rate, Nationwide has announced its rate will be a whopping 39.9% APR – meaning the majority of its customers who use their overdrafts are set to be worse off from November.