• PPI payments 'hit £1.9bn in 2011'
  Banks paid out £1.9bn in compensation in 2011 for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, a watchdog says.
• New targets for tax inspectors
  Tax inspectors will target the motor trade, market stallholders and clothing sellers as they extend their campaign against tax dodgers.
• Stamp price rise plans challenged
  MPs challenge a regulator about plans to remove price caps on first-class stamps and raise the price limit on second class to as much as 55p.
• New year drop in property sales
  Home sales recorded their typical new year dip, but transactions in the first month of the year were higher than any January since 2008, figures show.
• Cash offer for insulation 'help'
  British Gas is offering £50 to anyone who can pass on the name of an elderly person or a family on benefits who needs to have their home insulated.
• MPs back welfare 'bedroom tax'
  MPs have again overturned peers' calls for changes to the controversial Welfare Reform Bill.
• Firms paid to help jobless teens
  Firms and charities are to be offered a payment-by-results scheme to try to get 55,000 "Neet" teenagers in England into work, education or training.