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CYBG is planning to launch a new service in May 2018 allowing users of its B smartphone app to access new open banking technology and see their accounts with other lenders. The B app is used by [...]

ING Bank and Illuminate Financial survey has found that fintechs and banks believe they are partners in disrupting the financial services market. The survey found that 70% of banks surveyed view [...]

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 [...]

Barclays will be notified within two weeks on whether it faces a second set of criminal fraud charges over its emergency 2008 cash call with Qatari investors, according to the FT. Barclays’ [...]

Banks including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Lloyds Banking Group and Tesco Bank have all stopped buying and selling Qatari riyals. The foreign exchange service provided by many banks [...]

Stripe has made its products available to businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg Yoyo Wallet, the British mobile payments app, has raised £12m from [...]

Metro Bank has claimed that rental income from its safety deposit boxes covers 80% of its branch network rental costs. Currently, the bank has 80,000 safety deposit boxes in its branch network. [...]

Tesco Bank has defended its decision to launch larger loans of £25,001 to £35,000, saying they are subject to a ‘robust affordability assessment’, after The Daily Mail suggested it had [...]