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Payday loans companies appear to be breaking new industry regulations put in place to protect vulnerable customers, according to a
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A new poll has revealed that public sector workers are the most likely to turn to payday loans to make
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Despite new regulations brought in to limit interest charges, there has been a sharp rise in complaints about payday loans
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The head of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said that personal debt levels have risen to such a level
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The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 5,095 complaints about payday loans in the second half of last year, which was
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New research has found that the number of people who applied for payday loans during the first week of January
Research has found that a third of students are funding their university education by use of credit cards and payday
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Wonga, the largest payday loans company in the UK, double-charged 7,000 of its customers last Friday. Customers who had taken
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CFO Lending, a payday loans company banned from lending by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) earlier this year, has been
Approximately 1.6 million households in the UK are living in extreme debt, as a direct result of a decrease in
Research from the StepChange Debt Charity shows that half of adults in the UK are receiving phone calls from companies
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Following the historic vote to leave the European Union in the recent Referendum, the pound fell to its lowest level
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The US government revealed plans on managing the $38.5bn payday loans industry, to protect customers more. The low-dollar, high interest
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Despite the introduction of new lending regulations in January 2015, there was a 178 per cent increase in the number
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Due to concerns that people are being left in financial difficulty as a result of taking out payday loans, Google
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Wonga, the biggest payday loans lender in the UK, saw the introduction of tougher industry regulations affect its performance, revealing
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In the aftermath of the 'Panama Papers' leak, the European Union's five largest economies - the UK, France, Germany, Italy
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According to a study by Shelter and YouGov, more than half of Londoners struggle to pay their rent each month,
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The amount of tax you pay is changing, after Chancellor George Osborne announced cuts to income tax in his latest
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An energy bill price cap has been proposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for households which have pre-payment