Banking

If you've been hit by the floods and are struggling with emergency costs and mortgage payments, you may be able to get help after leading banks announced support measures.

Police and Barclays are investigating after confidential files of thousands of the bank's customers were allegedly stolen and sold on.

Update: 6 February 2014: The RBS Group has confirmed that any missing interest has now been credited to affected NatWest and RBS customers' Isa accounts.

If you're a customer of Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland or TSB, and were hit by this weekend's IT glitch which left many unable to withdraw cash and use debit cards – complain now if you've been left out of pocket.

The Post Office is to make its current accounts available to more people by rolling out its services to another 81 branches.

Barclays customers who dip into their overdraft will be charged less in future as the bank is simplifying overdraft fees.

People will be able to pay in a cheque by sending a smartphone image of it to their bank under Government proposals to bolster the long-term future of the payment method.

Hundreds of thousands of Lloyds Banking Group customers may be in line for redress after it was fined a record £28 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over the way it put staff under pressure to sell insurance cover and investments.

NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland's websites were hit by a cyber attack earlier today that left some customers unable to access their accounts.