Manchester City step up their pursuit of Jack Grealish by opening transfer negotiations with Aston Villa over £100m-rated playmaker as England star gears up for crunch talks over his future with the club’s hierarchy City boss Pep Guardiola has long admired the 25-year-old England international Aston Villa are holding out for £100m and have no … Read more
Nearly 150,000 customers lost savings to bank transfer scams last year. Many lost life-changing sums. But while some were fully reimbursed, others received nothing.
Man is branded ‘disgraceful’ for asking friend who he bought a Jägermeister for on a night out to transfer him £2 – but others argue ‘those bills have got to be paid’ Scott Lansbury, from Northumberland, bought friend Jägermeister on night out Screenshot of text exchange next day showed he asked him: ‘Got that coin?’ … Read more
WhatsApp remains as another important instant messaging platform today. Facebook regularly rolls out updates and new features. Just recently, we mentioned WhatsApp is testing out a 24-hour disappearing messages option. It’s also possibly working on a cross-platform backup. We also won’t forget those encrypted video and voice calls to desktop app. WhatsApp continues to combat … Read more
Losses to bank transfer fraud rose 5 per cent last year to nearly £480million as criminals cashed in on the coronavirus pandemic, but victims continued to be left out of pocket more than half of the time. Cases of so-called authorised push payment scams rose 22 per cent to just under 150,000 in 2020, according … Read more
Balance transfer bounce back continues: Banks boost 0% terms after credit card availability hit an all-time low There are now 59 balance transfer deals and 56 purchase deals available Although below pre-pandemic levels these are more than were around in 2020 Banks have increased their interest-free term lengths since the start of the year This … Read more
Smart money: Kristo Kaarmann could become a billionaire from a float At first glance, Kristo Kaarmann looks like a typical tech entrepreneur. He is sitting in his spare room in Hackney, wearing a sweater emblazoned with his company’s new name: Wise. The original brand – Transferwise – was ditched last month because Kaarmann, chief executive, … Read more
If you’re an Apple user, you probably just store all the photos you have on your iPhone or iPad on your iCloud service. But sometimes, you may have wished for a more robust cloud photo storing service. Google Photos is of course one of the more popular ones out there. Now Apple is offering a … Read more
A Barclays customer was left without £5,000 for months after the bank closed a dormant savings account last March but simply failed to hand her back the money until January. Loretta Marshall, not her real name, from Worcestershire, had a savings account with the bank which went dormant last year after she had not touched … Read more
A Barclays customer was left without £5,000 for months after the bank closed a dormant savings account last March but simply failed to hand her back the money until January. Loretta Marshall, not her real name, from Worcestershire, had a savings account with the bank which went dormant last year after she had not touched … Read more