MPs pile pressure on banks as savings offers lag interest rate hikes June 8, 2023 MPs said that lenders must “up their game” and pass on higher rates to savers as bank bosses responded to an inquiry on the “measly” rates on offer. The influential Treasury Committee pointed to low rates on offer for easy access accounts across the UK’s ‘scale challengers’, Nationwide, TSB, Virgin Money and Santander. According to [...]
Will TSB be the next challenger bank to go up for sale? May 20, 2024 A potential sale of TSB Bank is back in focus as its Spanish parent company Sabadell grapples with a rare hostile takeover attempt by larger domestic rival BBVA.
Arise Sir Oliver: Dowden given knighthood and Grayling to the Lords July 4, 2024 Oliver Dowden is amongst a host of politicos receiving honours just hours before the election
Santander becomes latest bank to cut mortgage rates amid falling inflation August 14, 2023 Santander has become the latest high street lender to reduce the rates of its mortgage deals, following a stream of other cuts by fellow banks last week, in a signal of hope for prospective buyers. On Monday, the bank cut its selected residential purchase and remortgage fixed rates by between 0.05 per cent and 0.29 [...]
UK house price growth slows to 10 per cent as energy crisis batters Brits September 1, 2022 Annual UK house price growth slowed to 10 per cent in August, from 11 per cent in July.
How likely is a UK property market crash and what IS happening with house prices? March 31, 2023 This week prospective buyers were hit with another flurry of less-than optimistic reports about the outlook for the housing market; house prices continued to fall in value and mortgage approvals struggled to get above pre-pandemic levels. Nationwide’s report found that house prices fell 3.1 per cent in March, the largest annual decline since July 2009 [...]
Letter to the editor: Digital skills are vital for growth March 5, 2024 [RE: Spring Budget 2024: Six things to look out for, 1 March] While the steps taken in the Autumn Statement, like permanent full expensing, were beneficial, they barely scratched the surface of the deeper issue impacting our economy – the ongoing digital skills crisis.We’ve seen first-hand that there is a tangible link between digital skills [...]
Sainsbury’s to pay Natwest £125m to take bank division off its hands June 20, 2024 Natwest has agreed to acquire Sainsbury's core retail banking arm - with the supermarket giant paying the lender £125m to take it off its hands.
BT confirms first female chief Allison Kirkby will start next month January 8, 2024 BT has confirmed that Allison Kirkby is set to step up as chief executive of the British telecoms group starting 1 February 2024.
Cash still king in the City compared to rest of London but amount withdrawn almost halves July 13, 2023 Westminster and the City remained London’s biggest centres for cash withdrawals but saw a near halving in the amount of cash withdrawn over the past four years. According to figures from LINK, which operates the interbank network, the amount of cash withdrawals from the City and Westminster fell to £55m in May 2023, 49 per [...]