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Stay up-to-date with all the latest newsThe Financial Ombudsman Service – Half yearly complaints Data
The Financial Ombudsman Service publish data every six months showing the number and outcome of the complaints they handle about financial businesses. The data covers January to June 2023. Overall, the Financial Ombudsman Service received a total of 93,114 complaints...
Central Bank of Ireland – 2023 Information Seminar
The 2023 information seminar for credit unions, which was hosted remotely by the Central Bank of Ireland on Thursday 19 October 2023. Topics covered in the information seminar include updates on credit union lending and current accounts, restructuring, MCC and a...
Central Bank of Ireland – The Climate Observatory
The Central Bank established a Climate Change Unit in 2021 to embed climate risk and sustainable finance considerations into its day-to-day activities. Since 2022, The Central Bank have also been increasing their climate-related engagement with regulated firms and...
FCA – UK Payment Accounts: Access and Closures
The FCA review of bank and other payment accounts was undertaken due to concerns about the scale of account closures and access to financial services, and more recently, concerns centred on whether account providers have closed customers’ accounts because of their...
Central Bank of Ireland – Quarterly Bulletin 2023:3
Key points of note in the Central Bank’s third Quarterly Bulletin for 2023 include: The path back to lower rates of inflation is likely to be gradual and uneven. Inflation, forecast to average 5.4 per cent this year, is expected to be 2.3 per cent in 2025. Tight...
Financial Lives 2022: Key findings from the FCA’s Financial Lives May 2022 survey
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued Financial Lives, their flagship survey of UK consumers, which provides nationally representative data about consumers’ attitudes towards managing their money, the financial products they have and their experiences of...