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Credit card disputes at Visa continued rising past their pandemic boom despite the proliferation of prevention software, as fraud grows alongside e-commerce and inflation. From a report: Disputes on Visa’s network rose to more than 90 million in 2022, …
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The collapse in cryptocurrency prices last year forced a procession of major firms into bankruptcy, triggering a government crackdown and erasing the savings of millions of inexp…
Drop from £7.53 in every £100 to £3.98 in 10 years comes as property drives intergenerational divideCampaigners have sounded the alarm about a potential increase in pensioner poverty in Britain over the coming decades after it emerged that the share of…
The financial services platform Square is experiencing a widespread outage, causing many small businesses around the country to switch to cash only. From a report: In a statement posted to their website, Square said it began investigating a service dis…
Halifax says prices fell by 4.6% as high interest rates dents homebuyer demandBusiness live – news updates UK house prices suffered their sharpest annual drop in 14 years, as the seasonal summer slump and high mortgage costs dragged on sales.Data relea…
Two-fifths of UK adults disconnected for three hours or more with one in four left without service for nearly a weekThe number of Britons who have experienced their internet connection failing for at least three hours has almost doubled in the last yea…
UK losing belief that hard work brings better life, and fewer millennials now think work always comes first, survey indicatesIn the great “live to work or work to live” debate, Britons have traditionally been seen to fall into the first group. But rese…
Which? said firms are gathering far more data than needed for products to functionSex and politics: car driver data grab is ‘privacy nightmare’EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech Owners of smart home devices are being asked for swathes of …
Campaigners tell MPs more than 1m households missed out on government support for billsThe number of excess winter deaths in Great Britain caused by living in a cold, damp home climbed by about a half last winter after more than 1 million vulnerable ho…
Resolution Foundation predicts average Britons will be 4% poorer but better-off pensioners will be ‘big winners’UK workers’ living standards will flatline next year, leaving them on track to be 4% worse off heading into the next election than they were…