As more and more debt firms are being found to fall short of the Office of Fair Trading's Debt Management Guideline, Moneywise's Debt Wizard Mike Thomas says more should be done to name and shame the guilty parties.
A group of MPs has called for an investigation into credit searches, amid evidence that borrowers are unfairly penalised by lenders when shopping around for credit cards and loans.
More than 100 construction companies - including Balfour Beatty - have been fined a total of £129.5 million by the Office of Fair Trading for rigging bids for contracts.
NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland have broken ranks with their banking peers by cutting the charges levied on customers who go overdrawn without permission.
Victims of bank charges may find out if they can claim back their money this week, as the long-running test case into overdraft charges is heard by the House of Lords.
Bank charge victims could have to wait even longer for compensation after the House of Lords gave banks the right to appeal a recent court decision that could have seen overdraft fees capped.
A report from the Office of Fair Trading has concluded that the nationalisation of Northern Rock did not damage competition in the financial services sector.
