Pub passports?

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Pub passports

Pubs could soon ask to see your vaccine certificate before pulling you a pint, and it might be up to individual pubs to decide their own rules. The idea is currently under review, along with an option of showing a negative coronavirus test. We’ll find out in May if it’s a goer.

95% mortgages

The low deposit lending market is opening up again* a year after most 95% deals were withdrawn. Many big banks have signed up to the government’s mortgage guarantee scheme, which will launch next month. But Yorkshire Building Society, Bank of Ireland, and Skipton Building Society have already launched their own 95% mortgages, without the government support.

MasterCard owes you £300?

This week a court will decide whether to allow a class action against MasterCard. A former financial ombudsman claims the credit card company overcharged 46 million people over 16 years. If the case goes ahead and is successful, the people affected could receive £300 each in compensation.