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| Nov 2, 2026 | Banks battle for mortgages ahead of looming interest rate hike | Britain’s biggest banks are battling for mortgage market share on razor-thin margins even as borrowers rush to remortgage ahead of looming interest rates hikes.
The central bank is expected to lift its base rate to four per cent on Thursday... |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Why the City isn’t buying a ‘time-limited’ bank tax hike | John Healey may have opened Pandora’s Box with an increase to the UK bank surcharge. Samuel Norman looks at whether he will resist the temptation to extend it.
Few things in British politics have proved to be as permanent as a “temporary” t... |
| Oct 30, 2026 | Are Manchester City too big to fail? Here’s what economic modelling says | Exclusive economic modelling for City AM assesses whether Manchester City are too big to fail and whether a contagion threat should be factored into any punishment of the club.
You have to go back to 1984 and the US state rescue of Continen... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Natwest and Nationwide set for biggest profit hit from Healey’s bank tax raid | Natwest, Nationwide and Lloyds are set to feel the biggest hit to profit from John Healey’s bank tax raid, analysts have said.
The trio of British banks, which have a larger domestic focus than their peers HSBC and Barclays, are the most ex... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Lloyds shares fall after high interest rates boost income | Shares in Lloyds Banking Group tumbled on Thursday morning after the bank beat profit expectations in the third-quarter after a boost from high interest rates and a reduction in its cost base.
The FTSE 100 giant reported a £2.3bn pre-tax pr... |
| Oct 28, 2026 | The UK cuts energy bills, taxes banks and boosts defense in high-stakes budget | U.K. Chancellor John Healey delivered his first Autumn Budget on Wednesday.
It included a swathe of measures aimed at easing inflationary pressure on households.
Banks will be taxed to help fund the spending.
The U.K.’s finance minister Joh... |
| Oct 26, 2026 | Revolut to take fight to high street banks with UK personal loans | Revolut is ramping up its battle with high street banking giants with the launch of personal loans in the UK market.
The digital bank said on Monday it would begin offering loans between £2,000 and £25,000, which will be repayable over one ... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | UK banks brace for sour loan spike as household savings run dry | UK banks are bracing for a potential surge in unpaid debts as cash reserves at UK households plummet to their lowest levels in three years.
The country’s top lenders are expected to provision a combined £4bn for loan-losses in 2027, accordi... |
| Oct 20, 2026 | Starling founder Anne Boden offloads stake at slashed £1.7bn valuation | Starling founder has offloaded her remaining stake in the UK fintech at a valuation far below the price the firm was targeting in its latest secondary share sale.
Anne Boden has sold her remaining 2.7 per cent stake in Starling as she begin... |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Banking tax raid fears hit London lenders’ shares ahead of crucial budget | Shares in Lloyds and NatWest fell Friday as investors reacted to reports of a possible increase in the U.K. bank-profit surcharge.
The bank surcharge is reportedly expected to rise to 8% from 3% in Finance Minister John Healey’s budget late... |
| Oct 16, 2026 | Midday Markets: The one tax you could bank on | The Midday Market report is a new newsletter from City AM, giving you fresh analysis on the biggest stories in the City straight into your inbox every lunchtime. Today, Ali Lyon, chews over the government’s plans for a windfall tax on banks... |
| Oct 14, 2026 | ‘It’s hard to call the peak’: Wall Street banks land $22bn trading haul | Traders at Wall Street’s biggest banks kept their blockbuster winning streak alive in the third-quarter as they made hay on volatility triggered by the war in Iran and swinging AI stocks.
Equity trading divisions at the big six US banks – J... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | HSBC set to axe UK wealth jobs as AI takes hold | HSBC is putting a raft of roles in its UK wealth division on the chopping block following a push to slash costs with artificial intelligence.
Europe’s biggest lender is consulting on changes to its wealth management operations that would le... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Stages of tax grief: Is it time for bankers to bargain? | Banks are in the firing line at the Budget and in a meeting with bosses on Tuesday chancellor John Healey played coy on any increased rates. In this week’s column Samuel Norman looks at what trade-off could be made. Also on the cards, fresh... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Aldermore puts jobs at risk in retreat from invoice finance market | Aldermore is weighing a round of layoffs as it consults on plans to scale back its invoice finance business ahead of a sale, City AM can reveal.
The Reading-headquartered lender is discussing plans to shrink its invoice finance division and... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Lloyds CMO: Uncertainty is the price of an interesting career | Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Suresh Balaji, chief marketing office at Lloyds Banking, takes us through his career in Square Mile and Me
Selling vaccines to medical practitioners, long before va... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Motonovo hikes motor finance provision as buyers circle Aldermore | Car finance firm Motonovo has ramped up its provisions for the motor finance scandal as top banks and private equity firms explore a takeover of its parent company Aldermore.
The Cardiff-headquartered company recognised a £153.2m charge in ... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Just One Week to Go Until Fintech Summit 2026 | With just one week to go, financial services, fintech and technology leaders are preparing to gather in Edinburgh for Fintech Summit 2026.
The 13th annual summit returns to the EICC on Wednesday, 7 October, bringing together senior figures ... |
| Sep 25, 2026 | City businesses swap boardrooms for bikes and treasure hunts | City businesses swapped boardrooms for bikes, treasure hunts and quizzes yesterday as businesses across the Square Mile came together for City Giving Day 2026. The annual fundraising and volunteering initiative hosted by The Lord Mayor’s Ap... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Two Weeks to Fintech Summit: Places Filling Fast! | With just two weeks to go until Fintech Summit 2026, financial services, fintech and technology leaders are preparing to gather at the EICC in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 7th October.
Now in its 13th year, the summit will bring together senior ... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Tesco Insurance & Money Services Partners With FinTech Scotland | FinTech Scotland, the cluster management organisation, today announced a new strategic partnership with Tesco Insurance & Money Services to accelerate innovation and collaboration across Scotland’s growing fintech ecosystem.
Tesco Insur... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure | Mozilla’s latest State of Open Source AI report argues that open-source and open-weight AI have moved beyond experimentation and become a significant part of the global AI ecosystem, driven by rapidly improving capabilities, lower costs, an... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Aldermore’s sale interest shows banks are over motor finance | Lloyds, Nationwide and Investec are all tipped to be circling Aldemore as its South African over prepares a sale. Samuel Norman takes a look at the runners and riders and what it could do for the market.
Has the banking industry finally mov... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | ‘Hound of Hades’ private equity firm pursues Aldermore | Private equity firm Cerberus has teamed up with Warburg Pincus on a joint bid for alternative lender Aldermore, City AM can reveal, in a sale process that could value the company at more than £1.4bn.
The US private equity firm, named after ... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Crystal Palace agree deal with HSBC that paves way for new training ground | Crystal Palace FC have agreed to buy the 27-acre HSBC Sports Ground in Beckenham, South London, in a move that will allow the club to significantly expand their training facilities.
The HSBC grounds, which currently comprise cricket and foo... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | What’s on at Fintech Summit 2026? | Fintech Summit returns to Edinburgh on Wednesday 7th October, bringing together leaders from across banking, fintech, regulation and technology to explore the forces reshaping financial services.
Now in its 13th year, the summit will featur... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 9 in 10 FinTech Leaders Plan to Increase UK Investment | Britain’s fintech leaders are preparing to invest and hire in the UK but are warning Government that the country risks losing ground to rival financial centres unless it moves faster on AI, infrastructure and regulation, according to new re... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | England Rugby in first ever back-of-shirt deal with £5m a year Lloyds signing | Banking giant Lloyds has become England Rugby’s first ever back-of-shirt partner after the world’s richest union added the City staple to its sponsorship portfolio.
It comes six months after City AM revealed Lloyds had held talks with Engla... |
| Sep 8, 2026 | Scottish Fintech Awards 2026 Finalists Revealed | The finalists for the Scottish Financial Technology Awards 2026 have been announced, with organisations and individuals from across Scotland’s financial services and fintech ecosystem shortlisted for this year’s honours.
A total of 68 final... |
| Sep 7, 2026 | House prices fall for first time in three years as borrowing costs weigh on buyers | House prices fell in the year to August in the first annual decrease in nearly three years, as high borrowing costs cause prospective buyers to “sit tight”.
The average UK house price edged down 0.2 per last month to £298,468, according to ... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Mark Kleinman: Healey unlikely to resist clamour for bank windfall tax | Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his City AM column.
The sense of déjà vu among Britain’s bank chiefs is palpable. Eight weeks ahead of new Chancellor John Healey’s inaugural fiscal stat... |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Citibank hit with £5m fine for violating UK sanctions on Russia | Citibank has been hit with a fine of nearly £5m after regulators found it violated the UK’s sanctions regime on Russia.
The Wall Street giant’s London branch was found to have processed £19.7m in illicit transactions spanning 970 payments.
... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Treasury sought to cap motor finance payouts, court filings claim | The government sought to cap payouts in the motor finance scandal at a level lenders could absorb and the City regulator acted “unlawfully” in failing to protect consumers, new court filings seen by City AM allege.
Both the Treasury and Fin... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi and 18 financial giants team up to launch dollar stablecoin | Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank and 17 other financial institutions are joining forces to launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin in the first half of 2027, setting up one of traditional finance’s most serious attempts yet to mo... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Business confidence climbs on consumer spending power | Business confidence has risen to its highest level since March, as resilient consumers shrug off the impact of the Iran war and Budget-related speculation is kept to a minimum.
According to the Lloyds Business Barometer, confidence among Br... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Affluent Big Four partners lack ‘fire in the belly’ to disrupt consulting market | The trend of Big Four partners leaving to launch boutique consultancies has accelerated in recent years. But the co-founder of consultancy Q5 Partners has told City AM that many will struggle to build true challenger brands without an “all ... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Lloyds Bank and Halifax users unable to use app in latest outage | Lloyds Banking Group has been hit with another app outage that has left thousands of customers unable to use services.
The financial giant – which has Lloyds, Halifax and Scottish Widows under its umbrella – said it was “working to get thin... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | Lloyds and Natwest flaunt social credentials as fears grow of Burnham tax grab | Lloyds and Natwest are flaunting their community credentials and pledging a raft of new social investment initiatives as fears grow that Prime Minister Andy Burnham will launch a punishing tax raid on the sector with the government’s first ... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | London pensions firm eyes more deals after HSBC and Lloyds takeovers | Pension consolidator Chesnara has said it is eyeing more deals after it swung back into profit following its takeover of HSBC Life UK.
The London-listed firm recorded a £61m pre-tax profit in the first half of 2026, bouncing back from a £5m... |
| Aug 21, 2026 | The decline of Harvey Nichols is a tale of London’s decline too | The decline and fall of Harvey Nichols is not just another business story. It is a warning about the crisis engulfing London’s high streets, argues Alex Challoner
Last week, a London icon fell. Harvey Nichols, the Knightsbridge luxury store... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Goldman: Junior white-collar workers squeezed hardest by AI hiring slump | Artificial intelligence is beginning to weigh most heavily on junior white-collar jobs, according to Goldman Sachs, as new research points to a growing divide between workers entering industries such as consulting and advertising, and their... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Monzo faces outage as thousands of users unable to make payments or transfers | UK fintech Monzo has suffered an outage that has left thousands of its users unable to use its banking services.
The digital bank said it had “identified some issues” and initiated a stand-in backup service, which would allow users to still... |
| Aug 17, 2026 | JP Morgan boss issues bank tax warning to John Healey | The boss of JP Morgan has issued a bank tax warning to John Healey as the Chancellor gears up to deliver his first Budget in October.
Jamie Dimon, who has led Wall Street’s biggest bank since 2006, held a call with Healey on Thursday where ... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | QUBE Events’ 6th Financial Innovation Forum Returns to London This September | London’s Financial Innovation Forum by QUBE Events brings payments, RegTech, compliance, and banking leaders together The programme explores regulation, infrastructure, fraud prevention, data, resilience, and emerging financial technologies... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Exclusive: City giants tighten trans policies | City firms are being forced to tighten up inclusion policies and prevent transgender staff from using single-sex bathrooms, after the equalities watchdog published fresh directions on enforcing the seismic Supreme Court ruling on gender las... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Stamp duty on shares is ‘biggest handbrake’ says UK bank chief | The boss of a London-listed bank and former Labour party donor has called for stamp duty on shares to be ditched in the Autumn Budget to boost trading from retail investors.
Ian Corfield, the boss of Secure Trust Bank, told City AM one of t... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 10, 2026: Apple, Google, Intel, Meta, OpenAI, TSMC, Unitree & More | It’s Monday, August 10, 2026, and the AI arms race just went local, open, and fiercely contested. Meta drops a 30-billion-parameter agent that runs on a single GPU. Intel raises $15 billion to chase the same boom. South Korea commits billio... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Big bank bosses on alert as tax noise gets louder under Burnham | Banks have delivered booming profits for the first half of the year. In this week’s column Samuel Norman takes a look at how the calls for a tax rise on the sector will get louder under the new Prime Minister.
“The saxophones are getting lo... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Atomic Settlement Proved on Real Money: BIS Clears Six Currencies in 80 Seconds | By Terrence Hill
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| Jul 31, 2026 | Natwest hikes targets again after jump in profit | Natwest has upgraded its income targets for a second quarter running as the bank posted better than expected profit and dished out a bumper dividend to investors.
The blue-chip lender reported a 20 per cent jump in pre-tax profit in the fir... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Lloyds Becomes First UK Bank to Complete Live Atomic GBP/CHF Settlement in BIS Framework | By Jerry Owens
Published: Jul 30 2026, 2:59 PM EDT
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| Jul 30, 2026 | ‘It’s going to impact work’: Lloyds to cut £2bn in costs with AI | The boss of Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to wield the axe on its cost base as the bank doubles down on AI ambitions.
Charlie Nunn, the chief executive of the financial services giant, said AI is “going to impact work” and “require us t... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Lloyds beats profit target as bank sets sights on more cost-cutting | Lloyds Banking Group beat its profit forecast for the first half of the year as the bank’s top boss laid out plans to make further cost savings in the years ahead.
The FTSE 100 lender – which owns the Bank of Scotland and Halifax – recorded... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | FinTech Scotland Festival 2026 Announced For September | FinTech Scotland has today announced that the ninth FinTech Scotland Festival will take place from 30 September to 7 October 2026, with in-person and online events across the central belt of Scotland.
The Festival will bring together intern... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverland and Edinburgh Uni Partner on Quantum | Quantinuum, Rolls-Royce, Riverlane and EPCC, the UK National Supercomputing Centre based at the University of Edinburgh, today announced an agreement to explore the quantum computing capabilities needed in future industrial workflows, such ... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Swift starts blockchain ledger with initial set of 17 banks | LONDON, July 9 : Global financial messaging network Swift launched a blockchain-based shared ledger on Thursday with an initial set of 17 banks including Citi and HSBC, as part of a push to enable round-the-clock payments and compete with t... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Rachel Reeves’ legacy of tinkering with the City is not enough, says Mel Stride | Sir Mel Stride has branded Rachel Reeves’ legacy in government as mere “tinkering” with City reform as the top Tory predicted her successor will create a “hostile” environment for the banking sector.
In an interview with City AM, the shadow... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Motor finance war of words heats up as City watchdog blasts law firm’s motives | A blistering war of words has broken out between the City watchdog and the firms leading the consumer legal challenge to its £9bn motor finance scheme.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged the Upper Tribunal to throw out the case... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | House prices rise as mortgage rates ease from Iran war highs | House prices inched up in June as mortgage rates softened following a sharp spike in response to the Iran war.
The average UK property price rose by 0.2 per cent in June to £299,330, compared to a 0.2 per cent fall in May, according to the ... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Scottish Financial Technology Awards 2026 Open For Entries | The Scottish Financial Technology Awards have opened for 2026 entries, inviting organisations and individuals from across Scotland’s financial services and fintech sectors to showcase their achievements.
Entries are free, with applicants ab... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Schroders sells financial planning arm as it accelerates high net-worth shift | Schroders has agreed to sell its advice business Benchmark Capital to Swedish wealth firm Soderberg & Partners as it accelerates a shift toward wealth management and high net-worth clients.
Under the terms of the deal, Schroders will be... |
| Jul 3, 2026 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers | June 2026 | Welcome to June 2026’s edition of Movers & Shakers.
This month saw a flurry of Scottish expansions, appointments, and partnerships before the summer
June saw a range of major cloud and AI partnerships as well as appointments for some ma... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | City watchdog suspends parts of £9bn motor finance scheme after industry backlash | The UK’s financial watchdog has suspended parts of its under-fire £9bn motor finance redress scheme amid fierce backlash from industry and consumer groups.
In a statement on Thursday, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the suspensio... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | DIGIT Deal Roundup | June 2026 | Welcome to June 2026’s DIGIT Deal Roundup.
As the Tartan Army returns home, Scotland has been busy with other success stories with major deals for AI firms and huge investment backing in fintech.
This month also featured major investments i... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Businesses confidence slumps as Burnham prepares for power | Ministers must prioritise delivery over “changes in the machinery of government” if business confidence is to recover, one of Britain’s top lobby groups has said, in a warning to Andy Burnham as he prepares to shake-up Whitehall and shift p... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Halifax ends 173-year high street run as Lloyds ditches branding | Lloyds Banking Group is set to ditch its Halifax brand in a move that will end the retail bank’s 173-year run on the high street.
The FTSE 100 titan – whose subsidiaries also include Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows – said on Wednesday ... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Lloyds accused of debanking left-wing media outlet The Canary | Lloyds Banking Group has been accused of debanking the left-wing news website The Canary in a move that has left the media outlet with “barely any funds”.
The bank was slammed by the media firm on Tuesday for allegedly “withholding a substa... |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Barclays and Lloyds join banking sector plan for digital ID | Barclays and Lloyds are among a group of top UK lenders working on a plan that would see customers able to use digital identification tools in their banking app.
The collective of banks – which also includes HSBC, Nationwide, Natwest and Sa... |
| Jun 22, 2026 | ‘Very concerned’: City watchdog scolds motor finance lenders over £9bn redress scheme | The City watchdog has warned motor finance lenders it is “very concerned” with how prepared the industry is to implement its £9bn redress scheme, City AM can reveal.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fired out letters to over 100 firms ... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Conservatives will slash the regulations holding the City back | The reforms Kemi Badenoch announces today will see the end of ringfencing and the end of an unfair international disadvantage imposed through capital requirements set by regulators. This is only the start. We will go further, says Andrew Gr... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Nationwide fires starting gun on mortgage deals ahead of interest rate decision | Nationwide has slashed its mortgage rates for the second time in the space of a week, ahead of the Bank of England’s interest rate decision on Thursday.
The building society has taken the chop to its home loan prices, with a 0.28 percentage... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | From mild to wild: What impact will AI have on banking jobs? | Top banking bosses have issued their AI verdict after Standard Chartered stunned the sector with plans for sweeping job cuts last month. In this week’s column Samuel Norman looks at whether a reckoning could be on the horizon.
The big-name ... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Britain Forges AI Sovereignty: A National Tech Reckoning | Britain launches an assertive AI strategy. The nation invests £400 million in AI chips and compute infrastructure. It aims for digital independence. The first sovereign AI model, Lumen Sovereign, gains backing from major corporations. New p... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Banks ‘not ready’ for motor finance scheme, says City watchdog | The City watchdog has warned that motor finance lenders are “not as ready as we would expect” for the introduction of its long-awaited redress scheme.
Nikhil Rathi, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has written to th... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Britain’s first sovereign AI model secures blue-chip backing as Starmer unveils £400m plan | Sir Keir Starmer’s push to build sovereign British AI capability has won backing from some of the country’s biggest companies, with BT, HSBC, Lloyds, Natwest and BAE Systems joining plans to develop Britain’s first sovereign frontier AI mod... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Starmer: Britain must ‘not stick its head in the sand’ on AI | Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain must not “stick its head in the sand” on artificial intelligence, with the technology set to fundamentally reshape the UK economy.
The Prime Minister used his speech at London Tech Week to unveil a major so... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Cosine secures industry backing for Britain’s first sovereign frontier model | Cosine, the British AI company selected by the UK Government as part of its Sovereign AI initiative, today announced that it has brought together a coalition of leading UK institutions to co-design Lumen Sovereign, which it describes as Bri... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Nationwide boss Debbie Crosbie banks £4.7m payday after Virgin Money deal | The boss of Nationwide has seen her pay almost double since the building society’s blockbuster takeover of Virgin Money.
Debbie Crosbie, who has steered the mutual since 2022, bagged a £4.7m pay packet in the last financial year, up from £2... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Banks call for ‘political mandate’ to bolster European defence | The banking industry has issued a rallying call for a “political mandate” from the UK and EU in a bid to get regulators to open the taps to a fresh flood of defence financing.
A new report from UK Finance – which represents the nation’s fin... |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Lloyds Contracts Microsoft for Agentic AI Deployment Plans | Lloyds Banking Group and Microsoft have announced a new multi-year agreement that will see the tech giant supporting the finance firm with its next stage of AI deployment.
The agreement follows the roll-out of 40,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot l... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Edinburgh Fintech Aveni Raises £12m for AI Assurance Platform | Edinburgh-based Aveni has raised £12 million in a funding round led by PXN Ventures to accelerate the development of its Unified Assurance Platform and launch new products designed to assess the conduct risk of AI agents in financial servic... |
| Jun 3, 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... |
| Jun 1, 2026 | OpenAI Releases Cyber Model to UK Banks | Nine major UK banks have just been offered access to OpenAI’s cybersecurity model GPT-5.5 Cyber after they did not gain access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos models’ latest preview.
The release of Claude Mythos sparked international curiosity... |
| May 29, 2026 | Scottish Business Confidence Rises to 50% | Business confidence in Scotland rose two points during May to 50%, according to the latest Business Barometer from Lloyds.
Companies in Scotland reported higher confidence in their own trading outlook month-on-month, up nine points at 62%. ... |
| May 29, 2026 | I’m a social landlord, but London housing needs the private sector | Any mention of the private sector is met with rejection, or even disgust, in some quarters of the social housing sector, but we both need each other, writes Andy Hulme
This month’s local elections saw shifts in representation across swathes... |
| May 28, 2026 | Mark Kleinman: Reeves revels in ring-fencing reform | Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his City AM column
Is Rachel Reeves about to rip up ring-fencing? It was a question I posed in this column just over a year ago. Now, we have an answer o... |
| May 22, 2026 | Antler: £25 Million Commitment From British Business Bank For UK Fund II | The British Business Bank announced a £25 million cornerstone commitment to Antler’s UK Fund II, marking the Bank’s first commitment to Antler and reinforcing support for ambitious founders and innovators across the UK.
Founded in 2017, Ant... |
| May 22, 2026 | UK’s Lloyds Banking Group Secures Real Estate focused Funding Deal with Amplius | Lloyds Banking Group has finalized a £65 million financing arrangement with Amplius, one of the UK’s housing associations. This new package aims to work on key upgrades to existing properties and support investment across the organization’s... |
| May 21, 2026 | ‘It will reduce jobs’ – Jamie Dimon sounds off on AI’s impact on banks | One of the world’s leading financial figures has warned AI will inevitably lead to a cut in jobs amid growing jitters around the impact the new tech will have on the banking sector.
Jamie Dimon – the top boss of America’s largest bank, JP M... |
| May 21, 2026 | Starling’s profit slides as falling interest rates bite | Starling’s profit took a dip in the latest financial year as the lower interest rate environment took a chunk out of the digital bank’s bottom line.
The UK fintech notched a £217m pre-tax profit, down three per cent from the £223m secured i... |
| May 20, 2026 | AI will ‘destroy and create jobs,’ says HSBC boss | The boss of Europe’s largest bank has warned that the growth of AI will both “destroy” and “create” new jobs as the banking industry continues to be reshaped in the face of new technology.
Georges Elhedery, chief executive of HSBC, warned t... |
| May 20, 2026 | Curve swings to £9m loss as Lloyds takeover remains incomplete | Curve has swung to a loss as the Apple Pay rival’s future faces uncertainty ahead of its takeover by Lloyds Banking Group.
The digital wallet provider suffered a £9.5m loss in the 2024 financial year, a major drawback from its £3m profit th... |
| May 19, 2026 | Lansdowne Partners Ignites UK Innovation with New $150M VC Fund | Lansdowne Partners launched a pivotal new venture capital fund. It targets high-potential UK innovation. The fund secured $150 million in its initial close. It aims to bridge critical funding gaps. UK companies emerging from university rese... |
| May 19, 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... |
| May 18, 2026 | Emergency lifeline for collapsed banks doubled to £3bn | The emergency credit fund that serves as a lifeline for collapsed lenders has been doubled as a result of “recent regulatory and operational developments”.
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) – working in tandem with the Treas... |
| May 18, 2026 | Rachel Reeves reforms ring-fencing in boost to Natwest and Lloyds | Rachel Reeves has handed a major boost to the likes of Natwest and Lloyds with an overhaul of the ring-fencing regime in hopes to free up capital to be invested into the UK.
The Treasury has unveiled a shakeup of the 15-year-old legislation... |
| May 16, 2026 | Reeves to overhaul ring-fencing regime in a bid to boost the UK economy | The Treasury is set to unveil a sweeping overhaul of the ring-fencing regime next week, in a bid to protect depositors at the UK’s biggest retail banks, as ministers scramble to boost economic growth.
According to reports in Sky News, Chanc... |
| May 14, 2026 | Lansdowne Partners: $150 Million First Close Announced For UK Innovation-Focused VC Fund | Lansdowne Partners has launched a venture capital fund focused on supporting high-potential UK companies emerging from the country’s university research base and startup ecosystem. The fund announced a first close of $150 million and is tar... |
| May 14, 2026 | Starmer drama: Traders bet against UK as short-selling on pound and banks surges | Traders are betting against the UK as the political storm in Westminster continues to send jitters through asset markets.
The pound has tumbled to a two-week low against the dollar, clinging onto the $1.35 mark on Thursday morning.
Meanwhil... |
