Banking
Nationwide calls on Gordon Brown to make a difference
Nationwide Building Society has challenged Gordon Brown to put hard-pressed home buyers and savers at the top of his agenda through real reform that will make a genuine difference.
Do you have a creaking joint account? asks Abbey
Over 5 million joint account holders (20 per cent) use their (joint) account to make purchases for themselves without telling their partner, according to research from Abbey Current Accounts. Yet, this is still less than the 24 per cent of people who suspect their partner of doing so.
Roger Black encourages Nationwide members to use their vote
In the first week of voting, the former double Olympic 400 metres silver medallist Roger Black, M.B.E, is encouraging Nationwide members to use their vote in the Nationwide AGM this year and raise money for Disability Sport Events.
Free banking at the touch of a button
Banks are on course to put 'hole-in-the-wall' machines into Britian's poorest areas.
Prepare your finances for the trip of a lifetime
Students and graduates planning gap years are being urged to prepare well financially before departing for the trip of a lifetime.
Lloyds TSB Scotland launches 2007 Student account
Lloyds TSB Scotland has announced its 2007 Student account, offering students planning to go to university this autumn over £200 worth of money saving benefits.
Banks provide business banking for everyone
British banks work to help all businesses - regardless of colour - to prosper through a variety of services tailored to individual banking needs the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) said today.
Citizens Advice: Free cash machines
Sue Edwards, senior policy officer, Citizens Advice, "This is good news and shows that real progress is being made to give vulnerable people on low incomes greater access to free cash machines and we acknowledge the work that both Ed Balls and John McFall have done on this issue.
Nationwide launches online AGM voting for members
Nationwide Building Society is for the first time allowing its 6.6 million members to vote in its AGM online at nationwide.co.uk in addition to being able to vote by post or at any branch.
Halifax's cash bonuses for those who switch current accounts
Commenting on the launch of Halifax’s cash bonuses for those who switch current accounts, Kevin Mountford, head of current accounts at price comparison website moneysupermarket.com, said:
The Co-operative Bank launches search for Britain’s premier Mayor
The Co-operative Bank has launched its competition to find the Mayor of the Year 2007.
Free cash machines initiative for low-income areas delivers on target
More than a million people stand to benefit from an initiative to place 600 non-charging ATM cash machines in low-income areas throughout the UK.
From high school to high flier
The profile of the average teenager is changing – today’s younger generation is a financially ambitious group with almost a quarter (24%) 16-21 year olds in employment expecting to be earning over £40,000 in as little as 10 years time – this could be over double the national average wage of £23,244, according to research by Alliance & Leicester.
Bank customers ‘in the red’ will fork out an extra £52 million
Just six months into the year and some of the UK’s leading banks and building societies have found a way to generate additional revenue of over £52 million by making sneaky increases to authorised overdraft rates, according to new analysis from uSwitch.com.
Better banking in Belfast
Improvements to current accounts were discussed at a high-level conference in Belfast today where key industry figures met to discuss recent Competition Commission changes.