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Nationwide wins responsible lender award

Nationwide Building Society has been judged the winner of The Most Responsible Credit Card Lending Practices Award for the third year in a row at The Card Awards.

Barclays unveil new design for Barclays.co.uk website

The site has had a full makeover with clearer screens, simpler navigation and new features. The new look is in line with the same theme and design used on the online banking site relaunched in July last year.

Job seekers go online to get in-line for new Tesco Bank Career

Tesco Bank unveils new jobs website as it steps up its local recruitment. Tesco Bank has launched a new, user-friendly, careers website as it recruits over 1,800 new roles at customer service centres opening this year in Newcastle and Glasgow.

UK interest rates held at 0.5%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee today voted to maintain interest rates at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £200 billion.

Skipton and Legal & General to enter distribution agreement

Skipton Building Society and Legal & General have today announced that they have entered a joint distribution agreement for the supply of protection products.

Big names to give evidence at Future of Banking Commission

Some of the most influential figures in the banking industry have been confirmed as witnesses for the Future of Banking Commission, Which? can reveal.

Yorkshire Building Society members say yes to merger

Yorkshire Building Society saving and borrowing members, like the members of Chelsea Building Society, have voted in favour of the merger between the two societies.

Barclays enhances mobile phone banking service

Barclays enhances mobile phone banking service

Barclays has made a further enhancement to its mobile phone banking service which will allow customers to make payments to third parties.

Fair play? Don’t bank on it

The British public's relationship with its banks is at breaking point, research from money.co.uk has suggested.

Chelsea members say yes to merger with the Yorkshire

Chelsea members today voted in favour of a merger with the Yorkshire Building Society at a Special General Meeting in Birmingham.

Building societies triumph again in consistency survey

Building societies have once again dominated the first Moneyfacts consistency survey of 2010, with 72.5% of all accounts listed as performing consistently.

Ignore inflation at your peril

David Kuo, Director at financial website Fool.co.uk, says: "The latest inflation numbers from the Office for National Statistics are worrying.

Skipton opens its doors to people wanting to donate to Haiti

People wanting to donate money to help the estimated three million people affected by the Haiti Earthquake can now do so at their nearest Skipton Building Society branch.

Santander rebrands Abbey and B&B branches

The first official Santander branch in Tottenham Court Road, London will be launched today by Banco Santander Chairman Emilio Botin.

Abbey and B&B savings to be rebranded as Santander

Commenting on the confirmation that 1,000 Abbey and Bradford & Bingley branches will be rebranded to Santander by the end of this month, starting in London on Monday, Kevin Mountford, head of banking at moneysupermarket.com, said: