| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.06.2026 | Natwest to pump £50m into branches after shuttering over a thousand | Natwest is planning to beef up its branch network after being one of the leading banks to take the axe to its physical presence over the last decade.
The blue-chip banking giant will pump £50m into its network over the next 18 months and ha... |
| 03.06.2026 | Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers hit with app outage | Lloyds Banking Group has been rocked with another outage as thousands of customers report issues with their online services.
The financial services giant was flagged with a spike on the online outage tracker Downdetector at around 11:15am o... |
| 19.05.2026 | Deutsche Bank hit with six-figure fine in UK for breaching Russia sanctions | Deutsche Bank has been slapped with a six-figure fine by the Treasury’s financial sanctions body for processing payments that breached sanctions on Russia.
The German multinational investment bank has been handed a £160,000 fine after it wa... |
| 06.05.2026 | Santander to axe TSB from British high street ending 215 year run | Santander plans to erase the TSB brand from Britain’s high streets after more than two centuries, just one week after completing its takeover over the UK lender.
The Spanish bank is gearing up to drop the brand and run the combined business... |
| 05.05.2026 | KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to GS Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust 2026-IRRP1 DAC | KBRA Europe (KBRA) assigns preliminary ratings to six classes of notes to be issued by GS Mortgage-Backed Securities Trust 2026-IRRP1 DAC, a static RMBS securitisation collateralised by predominantly reperforming mortgage loans. As of 31 Ma... |
| 29.03.2026 | Banking Giant Grapples With Massive Data Exposure | Lloyds Banking Group faced a major mobile app failure. Nearly half a million customers saw other users' sensitive transaction data. The bank issued compensation. Regulatory bodies launched investigations. The incident underscores significan... |
| 27.03.2026 | Lloyds Bank forks out compensation after tech glitch hit nearly half a million | Nearly half a million Lloyds Banking Group mobile app users were hit by the firm’s major tech glitch earlier this month with the bank now dishing out compensation payments to some of those affected.
Up to 447,936 customers of Lloyds and gro... |
| 17.03.2026 | Lloyds Bank App Glitch Exposes Customer Financial Data, Triggers Regulatory Scrutiny | Lloyds Bank faced a massive data privacy incident. A technical glitch allowed app users to view other customers' private financial transactions. This exposure included sensitive spending data and account details. The event triggered immedia... |
| 13.03.2026 | What happens now after Lloyds Bank’s tech disaster? | Customers at Lloyds Banking Group were sent into panic on Thursday morning after a number of users opened their mobile app to find rogue transactions that did not belong to them.
Screenshots quickly flooded social media with many of the ban... |
| 12.03.2026 | Lloyds Bank investigating ‘technical glitch’ as users see rogue transactions | Lloyds Banking Group is looking into a “technical glitch” that left users of the bank’s app on Thursday morning seeing other users’ transactions on their mobile app.
The group – which consists of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – respo... |
| 11.02.2026 | Lloyds to close 95 more bank branches across UK | Lloyds Banking Group is set to make a further full to its branch network with 95 sites face the shutter.
The FTSE 100 banking giant announced the fresh closures on Wednesday, which will affect Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland sites. The... |
| 26.01.2026 | Lloyds subsidiary fined £160,000 for Putin ally sanctions breach | A subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group has been fined for sanctions breaches after it opened a bank account for an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Bank of Scotland, a subsidiary of Lloyds since 2009, was fined £160,000 by the Office... |
| 30.10.2025 | The best cash bonus deals for switching current accounts | UK banks and building societies are handing out hefty cash bonuses to entice customers to switch accounts, with Nationwide among the sweetest offers.
The building society recorded 54,347 switches between April and June, largely driven by it... |
| 20.10.2025 | Amazon's AWS faces rocky recovery after outage disrupts digital services worldwide | Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was still battling to restore operations on Monday (Oct 20) after a massive outage knocked out thousands of websites and popular apps such as Snapchat and Reddit, disrupting businesses and digital services w... |
| 20.10.2025 | Amazon's cloud services hit by hours-long global outage | A global outage hit Amazon's cloud services for several hours on Monday (Oct 20), the subsidiary of the US tech giant said, disrupting many websites and services, including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat and Duolingo.
T... |
| 20.10.2025 | Macdonald Hotels counts cost of huge legal bill after High Court loss | Luxury chain Macdonald Hotels slumped into the red before being order to pay a huge legal bill after losing a case to the Bank of Scotland.
Macdonald Hotels sued the Scottish subsidiary of Lloyds Bank claiming it was “seriously wronged’ by ... |
| 09.10.2025 | Lloyds banking group acquires remaining stake in Schroders personal wealth | Lloyds Banking Group has completed the full acquisition of Schroders’ personal wealth arm, six years after the establishment of the unit.
Lloyds acquired the remaining 49.9 per cent of Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) from the asset manager,... |
| 22.08.2025 | UK banks carry out sweeping branch closures as customers go digital | Some of the biggest traditional banks have shut more than one in three of their UK branches over the past five years as they turn away from the high street and dash to bulk up their digital offerings.
Data from the Office of National Statis... |
| 24.07.2025 | Lloyds reports strong growth as UK economic conditions improve | Lloyds bank has reported a strong financial performance in the first half of the year, achieving income growth and showing continued momentum across the business.
The FTSE 100 giant, which includes Lloyd’s, Halifax and Bank of Scotland reco... |
| 09.05.2025 | Mortgages rates set to fall after Bank of England interest rate cut | Analysts have predicted that the Bank of England’s decision to reduce interest rates on Thursday will encourage major banks to cut mortgage rates.
Lower rates will be a major affordability boost for the UK’s housing market, which continues ... |
| 01.05.2025 | Lloyds costs soar as lender increases provisions after tariff turmoil | Lloyds Banking Group’s profit took a hit in the first three months of the year as the domestic-focused bank’s operating costs soared.
The FTSE 100 giant, which includes Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland, met analyst expectations for pre-... |
| 17.04.2025 | HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds: Lenders bank on interest rate cut as mortgage ‘price war’ heats up | Top UK lenders are offering more mortgages to prospective house buyers, the Bank of England has revealed, as falling interest rates stir up a “price war” on the high street.
The Bank’s credit conditions survey revealed that the burgeoning s... |
| 19.03.2025 | Santander to shut 95 branches – putting 750 jobs at risk | Santander announced a flurry of branch closures on Wednesday, which will place up to 750 employees at risk of redundancy.
The bank, which is one of the UK’s most prominent mortgage lenders, will close 95 of its 444 branches as part of a str... |
| 29.01.2025 | Over 100 Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches to close | - |
| 31.07.2024 | Scottish Business Confidence Surges in July | New figures from Bank of Scotland’s Business Barometer show that Scottish business confidence surged to 51% in July, driven by increased optimism in both business prospects and the economy, with a strong focus on staff investment, innovatio... |
| 06.07.2024 | From chess champ to chancellor, UK's Rachel Reeves plots gambit on growth | LONDON: Rachel Reeves became Britain's first female finance minister on Friday (Jul 4), and the one-time junior chess champion's opening gambit will be to try to spur growth without sacrificing the party's newly minted image of fiscal respo... |
| 25.06.2024 | UK’s Lloyds Banking Group Expands Partnership with Visa | Lloyds Banking Group and Visa (NYSE: V) have announced the renewal and expansion of their 40-year partnership in the UK, as Visa becomes Lloyds Banking Group’s leading scheme provider for its Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and MBNA ... |
| 03.06.2024 | Scots Firms Joint Most Confident Across UK Last Month | New data shows that business confidence in Scotland was joint highest of all UK nations and regions last month, May 2024.
Companies in Scotland reported higher confidence in their own business prospects month-on-month, up 16 points at 60%, ... |
| 03.04.2024 | Nationwide branch ads starring Dominic West banned by watchdog as misleading | Adverts for Nationwide starring actor Dominic West have been banned by the advertising regulator in their current form for misleading consumers that the lender would not close branches like its rivals.
The Advertising Standards Authority (A... |
| 16.06.2021 | Bank of Scotland to Help 10,000 Businesses with Digital Skills Academy | A new digital academy will help teach essential skills to businesses and charities across Scotland.
Launched by the Bank of Scotland on June 16th, the academy will include free live training sessions, videos, interactive webpages, and guide... |
| 09.01.2018 | Downturn in Scotland’s Business Confidence | The most recent bi-annual Business in Britain Report, published by the Bank of Scotland (BoS), shows that Scottish business confidence has dropped to the lowest it has been since 2016. Scotland is now ranked amongst the lowest in the UK in ... |
