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| 13.05.2024 | BBVA could raise offer for Sabadell by selling TSB, analysts say | Analysts have argued that Spanish banking giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) could raise its hostile takeover bid for smaller domestic rival Banco Sabadell by selling its UK arm TSB.
Offloading the business, which Sabadell bought ... |
| 06.05.2024 | Nationwide called out over ‘sneaky’ tactics in £2.9bn Virgin Money deal | Baroness Sharon Bowles, a prominent figure on the London Stock Exchange’s board and a member of the House of Lords, has accused Nationwide of using “sneaky” tactics in its £2.9bn bid to buy Virgin Money.
British bank Nationwide has sparked ... |
| 04.04.2024 | Coadjute Revolutionizing UK Property Market with Major Investments | London-based property technology startup Coadjute is shaking up the UK property market with significant investments from major banks like Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest, and Rightmove. These financial giants have poured £10M into... |
| 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... |
| 03.04.2024 | Major UK Banks Betting £10M on Blockchain | In a bid to modernise property transactions, Lloyds Bank, Nationwide Building Society, and NatWest Group, along with property portal Rightmove, invested a combined £10m into Coadjute, a blockchain firm specialising in property transactions.... |
| 02.04.2024 | London’s proptech startup Coadjute secures €3.5M to digitally connect the UK property market | Read this article in:
London-based Coadjute, a company that helps with property technology, has announced that it secured fresh funding from Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Rightmove.
Lloyds Banking Group led the investment wi... |
| 02.04.2024 | Proptech Coadjute raises £10M from major banks | Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest, and Rightmove have announced their £10M investment in London-based property technology startup Coadjute. This round propels Coadjute's total investment to £23M since its founding in 2018.
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| 24.03.2024 | Atom Bank boss on rapid growth, London IPO and why high street challengers are a ‘dying breed’ | More than 250 miles from the Square Mile and Canary Wharf, one bank is doing things very differently.
Atom became the UK’s first app-based bank when it launched in 2016. It is headquartered in Durham, staff have a four-day working week, and... |
| 21.03.2024 | Virgin Money agrees to £2.9bn Nationwide takeover | The board of Virgin Money has accepted a £2.9bn takeover offer from high street rival Nationwide to create the UK’s second-largest provider of mortgages and savings.
The takeover, which Virgin Money agreed to on a preliminary basis earlier ... |
| 19.03.2024 | The Notebook: Metro Bank’s cost-cutting drive spells trouble for challengers | Where the City’s brightest get a few things off their chest. Today, our fortnightly columnist Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor, takes the pen.
Metro Bank announced further job losses last week, bringing the total... |
| 14.03.2024 | Nationwide must act in members’ interests on Virgin Money deal | Sky News’ City Editor Mark Kleinman writes a weekly column for City A.M., this week on Nationwide, the ‘British ISA’ and Martin Gilbert’s latest venture
One member, one vote? Not in the case of Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society... |
| 10.03.2024 | Richard Branson ‘set for £650m payout’ from potential Nationwide takeover of Virgin Money | Sir Richard Branson is set to receive upwards of £650m from a potential takeover of his challenger bank Virgin Money by Nationwide, it has been estimated.
The two lenders announced last week that Nationwide had agreed terms for a £2.9bn tak... |
| 07.03.2024 | Кредитор Nationwide поглощает конкурента Virgin Money в сделке на £2,9 млрд | Nationwide Building Society согласилась на поглощение конкурирующего кредитора Virgin Money в рамках сделки на сумму около £2,9 млрд.
Сделка создаст вторую по величине ипотечную и сберегательную группу в Великобритании с общим объемом креди... |
| 07.03.2024 | Nationwide agrees terms for £2.9bn Virgin Money takeover to create second-largest UK mortgages and savings provider | Nationwide, the UK’s largest building society, has struck a preliminary agreement to acquire Virgin Money, Britain’s sixth-biggest high street bank, valuing the latter at around £2.9bn.
The two lenders announced on Thursday that the potenti... |
| 07.03.2024 | Nationwide & Virgin Money Strike £2.9BN Takeover Deal | The deal, which will eventually see the Virgin Money brand disappear gradually over six years, will also pave the way for the creation of one of the UK’s largest mortgage and savings groups.
Under the terms of the deal, Nationwide tabled a ... |
| 10.05.2023 | Долгосрочная аренда жилья в Великобритании: где искать, какие документы показать, какой район выбрать | Аренда жилья важная составляющая переезда в любую страну. Нужно понимать какие документы необходимо подготовить, как осуществить поиск жилья, чтобы эффективно и в короткие сроки найти место проживания, соответствующее вашим требованиям. И в... |
| 30.09.2022 | Customers Reveal UK Businesses with ‘Best’ Bereavement Customer Service | Vicky Wilson's Settld reveals best companies for bereavement customer service
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With the UK Commission on Bereavement due to report shortly, a new survey by end-of-life admin service, Settld, reveals some banks and insurers co... |
| 31.03.2022 | 15 Technology Investments Every Startup Should Make As Soon As Possible | Most entrepreneurs these days know they need to invest in tech to power their startups, but it can be difficult to know what will make the most positive impact. The sheer volume of tech tools on the market can lead to an entrepreneur invest... |
| 14.06.2021 | How Nationwide taps Kafka, MongoDB to guide financial decisions | Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021.
Emerging technologies and a fast-changing competitive landscape mean financial services firms must explore new business models, according to the analysts at research fi... |
| 14.06.2021 | How Nationwide taps Kafka, MongoDB to guide financial decisions | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Emerging technologies and a fast-changing competi... |
| 02.09.2020 | UK house prices recover from lockdown to hit all-time high in August | UK house prices recovered from a lockdown-inspired dip to hit an all-time high last month. |
| 10.08.2020 | A Big Year For IBM And Z15 | IBM z15IBM |
| 31.07.2020 | UK house prices rebound sharply after stamp duty cut | UK house prices unexpectedly bounced back in July after tumbling in June, as pent-up lockdown demand was released and the stamp duty cut cheered buyers and sellers. |
| 05.06.2020 | The Cliff Edge: Will U.K. House Prices Dive Or Stay Put? | Figures released earlier this week by Reapit, a CRM software provider that processes in excess of ... [+] 30% of all UK property transactions, revealed just how quickly sellers, buyers, and renters have returned to market to get on with the... |
| 02.06.2020 | UK house prices tumble at fastest rate since 2009 amid coronavirus | UK house prices dropped at the fastest rate since the financial crisis in February 2009 last month, figures have shown, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the property market to a standstill. |
| 13.05.2020 | UK’s Nationwide Updates AI-enhanced Digital Assistant Arti to Answer Numerous Queries During COVID-19 Crisis | The UK’s Nationwide Building Society has prepared its virtual assistant Arti to answer common COVID-19 mortgage holiday questions from the country’s residents.
Nationwide’s team of mortgage, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) prof... |
| 30.10.2019 | London-based utility switching startup Switchd raises funding from the Nationwide Building Society | Today, the Nationwide Building Society announced that it’s investing in Switchd, a startup that automatically ‘switches’ people’s energy supplier to help them get the best deal. Founded in 2017, the startup previously raised €570k in Februa... |
| 30.10.2018 | Monzo, the UK challenger bank, raises £85M Series E at a £1B pre-money valuation | Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank that now boasts more than a million customers, has raised £85 million in Series E funding. The round is led by U.S. venture capital firm General Catalyst and Accel. Existing backers Passion Capital, Goodwater... |
| 02.10.2018 | DIGIT Movers and Shakers September 2018 | Recruitment LendingCrowd
Sir Sandy Crombie, former CEO of Standard Life and senior independent director at Royal Bank of Scotland, has joined the LendingCrowd as chairman.
Commenting on the announcement, he said: “LendingCrowd has made impr... |
| 18.09.2018 | Nationwide Announces Tech Investment Surge | Nationwide Building Society has announced it will increase tech spending by an additional £1.3 billion as the firm continues its emerging technology drive.
The building society said the investment will enable it to improve online services, ... |
| 02.08.2018 | Hazy announces additional $1.8m seed funding | Hazy, a London-based AI start-up which enables GDPR-compliant data sharing, has announced an additional $1.8 million seed funding led by UCL Technology Fund, alongside Nationwide Building Society, Pentland, Amadeus Capital Partners, AI Seed... |
| 02.08.2018 | Hazy announces additional $1.8m seed funding | Hazy announces additional $1.8m seed funding
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Hazy, a London-based AI start-up which enables GDPR-compliant data sharing, has announced an additional $1.8 million seed funding led by UCL Technology Fund, alongside Nationwide Build... |
| 11.06.2018 | Why you shouldn’t wish people happy birthday on Facebook | Originally Published by:
iPhone owners blast Apple over mystery ‘overheating’ bug that makes handset ‘too hot to touch’ Snapchat finally lets you unsend messages Google Chrome warning over ‘huge spyware campaign’ that’s hoovering up your se... |
| 29.03.2018 | 'An ever more widespread frost' is freezing the London property market | Reuters/Dylan Martinez
Cars are seen on a snow covered street in South London, Britain, February 28, 2018.
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London property prices fell by 1% year-on-year in the previous quarter.
It is the weakest property market in the UK onc... |
| 11.12.2017 | The Cambridge Building Society raises a record £7,081 for Alzheimer’s Research UK | The Cambridge Building Society raises a record £7,081 for Alzheimer’s Research UK
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As part of its Community Partnership Programme for 2017, The Cambridge Building Society partnered with Alzheimer’s Research UK for August, Septembe... |
| 03.05.2017 | Online insurance firm Next Insurance raises $29 million | Israeli-founded online insurance company Next Insurance has raised $29 million from Munich Re/HSB Ventures with participation from Markel, and Nationwide.
Existing investors Ribbit, Zeev Ventures and TLV Ventures also contributed to the Ser... |
| 19.10.2016 | Unisys Appointment Manager Moves to Microsoft Azure for Enhanced Customer Experience, Reduced Costs and Increased Productivity | New versions of Appointment Manager are now available to financial institutions of all sizes to improve customer engagement and sales
LONDON, October 19, 2016 – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that its Appointment Manager (AM... |
| 21.02.2016 | IBM’s investing spree: ecx.io and a new studio in Warsaw | IBM set to continue investing spree. After buying Ustream, the IT giant has now announced the acquisition of ecx.io, as well as plans to open three new design studios in Warsaw, Prague and Dubai.
On February, 3rd, 2016, IBM announced its a... |
| 01.12.2015 | The Help to Buy Isa for first-time buyers launches today: Here’s everything you need to know, including which banks and building societies will provide it and how much you can borrow | |
| - | Form3 raises $160 million in Goldman led round | London’s payments infrastructure provider Form3 has raised $160 million in a Series C funding round. The latest funding is expected to fuel expansion plans into new markets, with a specific focus on the US, where the company is already in a... |
