Challenger banks

Which? has claimed that it expects the advent of Open Banking to lead to more instances of ‘push payments’ scams. Separately, Get Safe Online has warned that the number of businesses pretending [...]

Atlas Merchant Capital, the investment vehicle founded by the former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond‎, is reportedly in talks to buy a stake in Tandem Money FCA has published feedback on its [...]

UK banks are teaming up with their Swiss and Japanese counterparts to warn that EU proposals to ringfence foreign capital could force lenders to exit their European businesses, according to the [...]

HSBC has appointed Mike Warriner, a former engineering director at Google, as chief information officer for its retail banking and wealth management digital division O2 is trialling a system [...]

ING has developed a new ‘zero-knowledge range proof’ (ZKRP) code for blockchain designed to protect data privacy. The code adds a layer of cryptography to blockchain technology, to demonstrate [...]

Money Mail research has found 35 lenders, including Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Halifax, have either increased mortgage rates or withdrawn their best deals since the beginning of October 2017 [...]

Digital Trade Chain Consortium has agreed to set up a joint venture company incorporated in Ireland to manage the roll out of Digital Trade Chain. The joint venture, which has also welcomed Banco [...]

Banco de Sabadell has announced plans to move its headquarters out of the Catalonia region to the eastern Spanish town of Alicante due to the current unrest between the Catalan separatists and [...]

AIB and Frontline Ventures have launched the second AIB Discovery Programme, which will provide 15 high-potential technology start-ups with up to €200,000 in funding Lloyds Bank has agreed to let [...]

Banks are growing concerned about the debts being amassed by universities as they try to attract students. One unnamed bank has indicated that it is so concerned about some universities’ [...]