These days, to see a cheque is rather a rare sight. You may get one from an older relative as a birthday or Christmas present but for youngsters it may be the first one that they have ever seen. With

The description of money as dirty has a long history in English literature, from Shylock’s account of usury to Martin Amis’s novel Money (1984) to Caryl Churchill’s play Serious Money (1987). Mostly t

Gold soars, funeral plan fraudsters charged, the best investment funds and the end of the £100 limit for contactless payments

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

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When William Caxton opened Britain’s first printing press 550 years ago, he helped the country form a shared language and literary culture, as a new exhibition reveals