More than 17,000 chain outlets including restaurants, retailers and banks closed down last year, according to new figures. There was a net decline of 10,059 last year after 17,219 chain store branches closed, compared with just 7,160 openings, according to PwC data
The British public never takes kindly to displays of great wealth or a group of privileged people taking an after-work drink while they suffer at home. Bankers have never been much loved and there is residual resentment of how the taxpayer had
Britain’s biggest banks preparing to trigger bonus bonanza totalling more than £4bn as profits soar to highest for more than 15 years By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 16:50 EST, 12 February 2022 | Updated: 05:04 EST, 13 February 2022
Banking Hub Company looks to install cash services in towns across Britain where banks have closed branches By Emma Dunkley For The Daily Mail Published: 17:29 EST, 16 February 2022 | Updated: 17:29 EST, 16 February 2022 A new company will help
Japanese owner of British tech giant Arm tells Wall St banks: Back £6bn loan or miss out on float bonanza Masayoshi Son, the founder of Softbank, bought Cambridge-based Arm, one of Britain’s most successful tech companies, in a £24bn deal in 2016 He
If you find yourself victim of a bank transfer scam, there’s no industry less likely to stick to the old adage that ‘the customer is always right’ By Gareth Shaw, Head Of Money At Consumer Group Which? Published: 16:51 EDT, 1 May
Queues outside a TSB branch in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, in early April Britons have had to queue at their local bank for up to an hour with death certificate papers and to pay in coins as reduced opening hours – thanks to
The number of people swapping current accounts between January and March using the official service fell more than a quarter on the previous three months, data shows. In that previous three month stretch, switchers were largely lured in by a cash carrot offered
The big banks had all deserted the Essex market town of Rochford, with Barclays the last to shut in 2017. It was not thought cost-effective to keep full-time branches open in the town, which dates from medieval times and now has a
The banks that grow trees as well as your savings: NS&I to launch new ‘green’ account this summer Oxbury Bank’s Forest Saver account funds woodland creation projects Gatehouse Bank has launched a range of Green Saver fixed-rate bonds and Isas Triodos Bank lends