You can bank on that nasty early-debit-order surprise

Rogue debit orders – and how the respective banks are currently dealing with the scourge – is big news, and rightly so.

But in December it’s the banks themselves, or at least some of them, that annoy consumers by deciding to grab their money a week or two earlier than the date stipulated in our contracts.

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