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Borrowing & debt

March 2025

  • a car showroom with payment plans etched in yellow lettering across the car windscreen saying £159 per month

    UK lenders face huge car loan payout bill as watchdog moves closer to compensation plan

    Potential FCA scheme could mean banks proactively inform borrowers if they were mis-sold car loans
  • Michael Sheen portrait

    The G2 interview
    ‘It’s not because I want people to think I’m great’: Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts

    The actor grew up poor, got rich, then lost everything backing the 2019 Homeless World Cup. Now he’s giving away more of his money to help 900 total strangers. Doesn’t he think he’s done enough?
  • Hands at computer keyboard holding bank card

    ‘My partner’s crazy spending ruined me’: the ugly truth about coerced debt

    Charity calls for banking industry to take totally new approach over type of financial abuse that leaves victims saddled with unpayable debts

February 2025

  • three people sit by a sushi conveyor belt choosing credit cards from the passing plates with chopsticks

    Money hacks
    How to choose the best credit card for you

  • Car are parked on the forecourt of a Vauxhall dealership

    UK lenders paid car dealers cash upfront that may have led to costlier loans

January 2025

  • Various cars on display for sale

    Rachel Reeves denies Labour hindering consumer interests in car loans scandal

    Chancellor under pressure from lenders and lobbyists that say huge compensation bill could harm motor finance market
  • Rachel Reeves speaking in the House of Commons

    Rachel Reeves blames global volatility for borrowing rates rise amid Tory criticism

    Chancellor tells Tory MP to ‘get real’ and that UK bond market changes are similar to those in other countries
  • Pearce Quigley as David H and Rory Kinnear as Dave Fishwick in Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger

    Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger review – Rory Kinnear files a solid return as the bloke from Burnley

    The businessman with a heart takes on crooked payday lenders in this predictable sequel that gets by on its heartfelt performances

December 2024

  • Model people standing and sitting on a pile of coins and notes

    ‘Hopefully, I’ll pay off my Covid debt’: what Britons want for their finances in 2025

  • New year finances illustration

    New year finances: a month-by-month UK guide to sorting out your money

  • Allen & Harris letting and estate agent shop front in Frome, Somerset.

    Observer business agenda
    UK house price predictions for 2025: with pay rising and rates falling, they’ll just keep going up

  • Cars at Southampton Docks in England

    Watchdog gives lenders a year to respond to UK car finance complaints

  • Supreme court grants permission for appeal against UK car finance ruling

  • Car finance scandal could be as big as PPI, City regulator says

  • Claims management companies circle after UK court ruling on mis-sold car finance

November 2024

  • Cars at a dealership

    FCA plans to allow lenders longer to respond to car finance complaints

    Firms could get up to a year to respond to mis-selling complaints after shock court ruling last month
  • Man getting out cash money from Santander ATM

    Santander puts aside £295m for car loan mis-selling

    Lower third-quarter profits reported alongside first estimate of financial fallout from loan mis-selling scandal

    • UK mortgage rates creep up as brokers warn of possible ‘further pain’

    • ‘I relate to Erin Brockovich’: postman who took on car finance world – and won

    • Bank of England cuts interest rates by 0.25 points to 4.75%

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