VICTORIA BISCHOFF: As coronavirus financial safety nets end, if banks start threatening those struggling to pay, they will lose the trust they are winning back By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 GMT, 27 October 2020 | Updated: 23:45 GMT, 27 October 2020 Budget day was always the most important date on the … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: It pays to be a savvy switcher… so beware of the price comparison site catches By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 20 October 2020 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 20 October 2020 Price comparison sites have saved many of us a small fortune on our energy bills over the years. … Read more
Money Mail has repeatedly raised the alarm about the hard-sell pressure tactics used by funeral firms to exploit grieving families. The competition watchdog was so concerned, it launched a review of the £2 billion-a-year sector in 2018 and, only last month, ordered firms to be more transparent. Yet an undercover investigation by the Telegraph has … Read more
Fraudsters are running rings around us. As fast as one unscrupulous website is taken down, another ten pop up. If we make our accounts more secure, they simply find an even more ingenious way to break in. It was evident early on that scammers were attempting to cash in on the panic and confusion caused … Read more
The pub was probably the thing that I missed most during lockdown. A swift half after work with colleagues, a mid-week vino with friends, a leisurely Saturday afternoon in a sunny beer garden . . . I felt lost without it. Since lockdown lifted, many have done a brilliant job of welcoming back customers with … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Coronavirus, the new go-to excuse for why businesses can’t possibly provide customers with basic customer service By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:27 BST, 25 August 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 25 August 2020 With so many people still working from home, I often receive phone calls from numbers I don’t … Read more
At the beginning of this crisis I wrote, ‘If banks fail us now, they will never be forgiven.’ We bailed them out in 2008. It was their turn to save us. Yet nearly five months on, there are queues lining the streets because branch hours have been slashed, customers are being refused help at the … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: A mortgage ‘holiday’ might not affect your credit scores but it could still have costly consequences By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 09:38 BST, 5 August 2020 As the pandemic tore through the nation’s finances in the spring, the promise of a mortgage holiday … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Coronavirus crisis set to throttle women’s earning potential further, widening already hefty gender pay gap By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 00:25 BST, 29 July 2020 | Updated: 00:25 BST, 29 July 2020 A friend recently shared what lockdown life has been like for his family. His wife is up and … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Defuse the car loan timebomb or risk a £76bn explosion By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 21 July 2020 | Updated: 23:12 BST, 21 July 2020 What’s not to love about car finance? For a modest deposit and a tenner a day, you can drop into almost any dealership … Read more