JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Coronavirus lockdown must not be an excuse for axeing bank branches By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 2 May 2020 Lockdown’s damaging impact on the UK economy has yet to be confirmed in hard numbers, but if you believe the experts, … Read more
Five out of the six High Street banks allow customers to bank cheques made out to their middle names By Samantha Partington For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 10 September 2019 | Updated: 09:13 BST, 11 September 2019 Current account holders can still bank cheques made out to their middle names in five out … Read more
Now banks target their LOYAL savers with cuts four times bigger than the Bank of England base rate fall Official base rate was reduced by 0.65 percentage points last month to 0.1% Readers say banks have responded with rate cuts of up to 2.5 percentage points Nationwide, Yorkshire, Co-op Bank and Santander have dished out … Read more
A shining light: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey For Ross McEwan it has been out of the frying pan into the fire. The lugubrious New Zealander, having battled to restore the dividend at Royal Bank of Scotland, fled London for Sydney, only to find that National Australia Bank (NAB) needed attention too. He has taken similar … Read more
A Bank of England scheme designed to provide banks with cheap money to lend to small businesses has handed out an enormous £6billion in its first week, official figures reveal. In an announcement which revealed the speed and scale of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, the sum pumped into banks in the first … Read more
Dua Lipa is one step away from making it onto the top 10 richest musical earners on the planet, banking £24.7 million over the past year. The British pop star – who, last month, released her sophomore album Future Nostalgia – made £11.8 million last year and has now doubled her earnings. This places her … Read more
Dua Lipa banks £25 million DOUBLING her annual earnings as pop star gains on the likes of Adele and Ed Sheeran on the world’s music rich list By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 12:46 BST, 26 April 2020 | Updated: 13:01 BST, 26 April 2020 Dua Lipa is one step away from making it onto … Read more
City watchdog reveals victims lodged more than 20,000 PPI claims per day against banks and other lenders in huge rush to meet final deadline By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 24 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 24 April 2020 Victims of Britain’s biggest ever mis-selling scandal lodged more than 20,000 … Read more
Banks under pressure to ramp up their coronavirus rescue lending with just £2.8bn doled out to small firms so far By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 Banks are under pressure to ramp up their coronavirus rescue lending as the latest figures … Read more
Banks urged to ramp up lending as just 12,000 small firms get crucial loans to survive the coronavirus crisis By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 20 April 2020 Britain’s banks are under mounting pressure to come clean over what they are doing to help … Read more