36 h. ago Major bank with 14.5million customers 'to go down twice' this weekend

HSBC has confirmed that it will be carrying out routine maintenance on its systems this weekend, meaning that customers will be unable to access their online and mobile banking services

Economics

39 h. ago Major bank 'closing all accounts' within weeks before Christmas

Bosses have set a deadline of December 2025 for the change and all apps will stop working with people needing to make a change

Economics

4 d. ago Major UK bank slashes mortgage rates as low as 3.64 per cent

Rate reductions are being made on two, three, five and 10-year fixed-rate products

Economics

8 d. ago Major bank issues warning over SCAM weight loss jabs as number of customers being duped surges

Santander says its customers have lost thousands to weight loss drug fraud, and the number of people falling for fake online ads is rising.

Economics

1 week ago Major £25,000 hike to bank protection rules set to land within WEEKS – here’s how you’ll benefit

MILLIONS of people with savings in UK bank accounts will soon have more of their cash protected.  The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which oversees banking in the UK, proposed increasing the amount of savings that are protected if a financial firm goes bust to up to £110,000 in March. If you put money into a bank, building...

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2 w. ago Halifax bank evacuated in major incident as police cordon off the streets

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Events

2 w. ago Bank services down for Lloyds, Halifax and other major names

A crash at hosting company, Amazon Web Services, has seen outages reported across hundreds of online services, games, and apps, including Lloyds and Halifax online banking

Politics

2 w. ago Major internet outage hits websites, apps and Lloyds Bank after issue at Amazon Web Services – business live

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank and Ring doorbells among services hit by online outage Heads-up: UBS have upgraded their view on global equities to ‘attractive’, a sign that they think investors should be putting more money into shares.Despite the angst in parts of the market that valuations have risen too high, UBS reckon share prices have further to climb.“We think investors should review current allocations to equities and ensure they are at least consistent with, or modestly higher than, their long-term strategic asset allocation targets. If investors are currently under allocated to equities, we believe they should reallocate excess cash, bond, or high yield credit holdings toward stocks.”“We prefer areas that are exposed to secu­lar growth, like the US, China, (particularly China’s tech sector, which we rate among the Most Attractive sectors globally), as well as global technology, transformational inno­vations (AI, Power and resources, and Longevity), and pockets with...

Economics