Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken out on unfair bank charges by calling on banks to swiftly compensate their customers should they eventually lose their court case against bank charges.
If the OFT win their test case against the banks and their unfair charges, they will be forced to repay hundreds of millions of pounds back [...]

RBS have this week announced plans to cut overdraft fees on over 12.5 million current accounts from October 2009
This latest news from RBS follows their announcement back in December 2008 where they revealed plans to begin pro-actively refunding unfair bank charges to its customers.

The House of Lords have granted the eight main High Street banks in the bank charges court case the right to appeal.
What this essentially means is that the continuous battle against unfair bank charges will now be delayed further and could even push the case back to 2011.

The High Court has today ruled that unfair bank charges can now be assessed by the Office of Fair Trading to ascertain their fairness to customers.
This announcement made earlier today could see banking customers reclaim billions of pounds in unfair charges from the last 6 years.

The Consumer Action Group (CAG) have hit out at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for keeping the bank charges waiver in place for Natwest customers who were penalised between 2001 and 2003. The Consumer Action Group now believes that these Natwest customers should now be able to reclaim their charges.
According to The Consumer Action Group [...]

According to reports, RBS may be planning to proactively refund all of its customers bank charges if the bank loses their High Court battle with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
RBS is currently appealing the case in unison with seven other major High Street banks. RBS are appealing a ruling that allows the OFT to [...]

According to a report in Money Mail a number of Abbey customers have noticed that they’ve been charged overdraft fees on their accounts – despite their accounts not having gone overdrawn.
It appears that customers only noticed the somewhat random charges (of only a few pence) after having looked over their latest banking statements.

The Financial Ombudsman is urging financially weary bank charge claimants to avoid taking their cases to court, but to instead contact them instead to reclaim their charges.
Many bank customers who have suffered financial difficulties due to unfair bank charges have since seen their cash refunded through the Financial Ombudsman Service rather than having to go [...]

HSBC is predicting the bank will have to issue a further £303,000,000 in refunds to its British customers should they lose the High Court case with the Office of Fair Trading in regards to unfair overdraft charges.
The bank has also revealed that they have already given back some £115,000,000 in 2007 following a spate of [...]