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PROVIDENT Financial makes small, short-term loans to lower income borrowers. But where payday rivals such as Wonga have boomed in the digital age, “Provi” has been around since 1880. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

PARENTS are facing soaring childcare costs as the Government’s controversial business rates review heaps financial pressure on nurseries, research has shown. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

WORKING an extra five years after retirement age could give a £50,000 boost to pension pots, research shows. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

THE Government is set to unveil new safeguards that it claims will prevent privately owned firms from collapsing, such as BHS, as part of its long- awaited crackdown on corporate excess. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

PREMIER League football clubs are on track to break the £1.38billion transfer spending record for an entire season, new figures from accountancy giant Deloitte show. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

MILLIONS of Britons are unaware that they are collectively sitting on pensions worth £800billion from their former employers’ final salary schemes, according to new research from insurer Royal London. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

AMAZON is to offer students a six-month free trial of its Prime Student subscription service, ahead of the start of the new academic year. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

THE two-year countdown for claiming compensation for being mis-sold payment protection insurance starts on Tuesday and to mark the occasion, the Financial Conduct Authority will unveil a new advertising campaign to make sure people file their claims before the deadline. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

CRIME is a blight on everybody’s lives but the biggest danger is not violence, street theft or burglary, but something far more insidious. Daily Express :: Finance Feed

LEADING homeware retailer Lakeland is seeing sales of food preserving products soar, and detects there’s more to the spike than it being peak season for pickling and jam making. Daily Express :: Finance Feed