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David Miles – a former member of the Bank of England’s MPC – and James Sefton have published a report suggesting that home values will carry on rising until the typical property costs [...]

Barclays has added a feature to its iOS app that lets customers make payments via Siri commands Amazon has added the ability for UK users to pay for eligible products and services in cash using [...]

HSBC, Barclays and the Government Digital Service have partnered with Orange, OT-Morpho and the Open Identity Exchange to test a system through which French citizens can open a bank account in [...]

OakNorth has revealed it has lent over £710m to entrepreneurs since launching in September 2015. The bank has lent over £430m so far in 2017 and says it has another £700m-worth of deals in the [...]

eMerchantPay has received authorisation from the FCA to issue pay-outs, e-wallets and prepaid cards in the UK. It has also joined the Prepaid International Forum Mastercard may face further legal [...]

ECB has warned British banks planning to relocate operations to another country in the EU before Brexit that it will not grant licences to ‘empty shells’. Sabine Lautenschlager, a senior [...]

UK Finance has reported that landlord investment in London property has dropped by over 50% since April 2016, when the Government increased stamp duty for buyers of second homes. In Q1 2017, [...]

City of London Police have shut down a fraudulent cryptocurrency business that cold-called investors and attempted to sell them fake online money UK Finance has reported that more than a tenth of [...]

R3, the blockchain consortium, is close to coming to market with its first commercial pilot product. A group of 11 banks, including HSBC and RBS, are poised to start testing an application that [...]

Provident Financial has reported that adjusted profit before tax fell by 22.6% year-on-year to £115.3m in H1 2017 compared to £148.9m in 2016 following disruption from the migration of its home [...]