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When choosing a financial provider to stash your money with, be sure to check for FSCS protection. This vital compensation scheme means you could get your money back if the provider goes belly up.

With the FSCS now protecting £120,000 per person for bank and building society accounts, I have been trying to find out what protection our pensions and stocks and shares Isas are afforded. Both a ...

On 31 March 2025, the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) announced a significant proposal: raising the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) deposit protection limit from ...

Proposed increases in the deposit protection limit from £85,000 to £110,000 and in the temporary high balance limit from £1 million to £1.4 million would take effect from 1 December 2025. There would ...

Remember back in 2007 when queues of people waited to withdraw their money from the stricken Northern Rock bank? Customers arrived before dawn to ensure they could collect their cash amid panic that ...