All news on the topic: Banking

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Halifax to disappear from UK high streets as Lloyds rebrands all customer accounts
Halifax is being ditched after over 170 years on the UK’s high street.
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Nationwide to cut more than 600 jobs after completing £2.9bn Virgin Money takeover
A Major British bank has announced hundreds of jobs are set to be cut following a multi-billion pound takeover.
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Two EY employees sacked after alleged breach of Australian PM Anthony Albanese’s banking data
Two Ernst and Young employees have been sacked after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s personal banking information was allegedly breached while the pair worked for the accounting firm at the Commonwealth Bank.
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Polish regulator seeks criminal charges against Aurum NeoBank over “bank” claims
Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has recommended criminal charges be filed against Aurum NeoBank.
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Italy dismantles Chinese-run illegal bank moving up to €100m a year for mafias
Italian authorities have dismantled a major underground illegal bank that moved up to 100 million euros ($116 million) annually to finance operations for domestic and international drug traffickers and organized crime syndicates, police announced Monday.
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Banker held over Putney Pusher case re-arrested on Class A and B drug offences
A man arrested in connection to the ‘Putney Pusher’ case of 2017 has been detained again after police found drugs at his London home.
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New Zealand bank ASB fined $6.7m after failing to vet billions in transactions
The $6.7 million fine ASB has agreed to pay for insufficiently vetting billions of dollars of transactions for money laundering is putting the spotlight on the law in New Zealand.
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Dnipro tycoon Vyacheslav Mishalov: family tobacco empire tied to illegal cigarette production
In Dnipro, Ukraine, businessman Vyacheslav Mishalov is increasingly associated not only with construction, banking and digital projects, but also with a shadow tobacco empire.
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Global bank fraud losses to hit $58.3bn by 2030, Juniper warns
A new report warns that increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, powered by artificial intelligence, are set to overwhelm financial institutions unless prevention systems keep pace.
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Phantom "Grupo Omni", fake offices, and $1.9 million in debts: who really stands behind the digital bank Bankaool
A fugitive wanted by Costa Rican authorities in connection with a massive fraud investigation known as the Madre Patria case was caught on wiretap boasting about buying into a bank in Mexico.
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Family tandem: how Gazprombank VP’s wife Elena Levina is tied to raider and financial schemes
Elena Levina, the wife of First Vice President Dmitry Levin, is increasingly being mentioned in the upper circles of Gazprombank, often in a negative context.
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Santander to acquire TSB for £2.65 bn — third change of ownership in 12 years
Purchase would be third major ownership shake-up for high street lender in 12 years
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Kremlin’s Uzbek laundromat: how billions are whitewashed through Octobank with help from Russian and Chinese partners
Oktobank has emerged as a hub for suspicious financial operations linking Uzbek authorities, Russian banks, and shadow networks.
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NatWest banking app experiences outage, leaving thousands unable to access their money
Thousands of people are struggling to log in to their NatWest banking app, leaving some unable to pay for food.
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Starling admits some Covid loans were issued without checks — bank’s profit drops by 25%
The digital bank Starling has suffered a 25% drop in annual profits and said it would turn down government guarantees on £28m of Covid loans losses after conceding its own weak controls were to blame.
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Credit Suisse caught in new scandal: $4 billion offshore and $511 million fine for tax evasion in the US
Settlement encompasses a guilty plea and penalties related to undeclared U.S. assets and accounts in Singapore.
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How the Bankera crypto project in Lithuania turned investors’ money into villas and personal loans
Initially a standout in Lithuania’s cryptocurrency industry, the Bankera digital coin raised tens of millions but has since seen its value plummet.
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M&S customers stranded as contactless payment system crashes across UK stores
Customers shopping at Marks and Spencer stores have been left high and dry after a contactless payment meltdown.
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Swiss bank Reyl helped kleptocrats and dictator relatives hide dirty millions — investigation reveals
The correspondence reveals how a Swiss private bank attracted a list of questionable clients connected to autocratic regimes and corruption.
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Santander announces closure of 95 branches in the UK
A major high street bank is closing more than a fifth of its branches across the UK.
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Hundreds of Santander customers in UK hit by banking problems
Bank says it has fixed mobile and telephone service outages after people unable to make payments
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Jeffrey Epstein’s ’Project Jes’ targeted UK power brokers to secure Staley’s Barclays CEO role
‘Project Jes’ targeted high-level figures including George Osborne and Mervyn King, emails suggest
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Lloyds and Halifax banking apps outage leaves hundreds of customers unable to access accounts
Lloyd, Halifax, and the Bank of Scotland are having issues with their apps and online banking - as hundreds cannot access their accounts.
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Barclays advises customers to contact food banks as IT glitch persists for a third day
The bank has apologised as hundreds of customers complain about service disruption and missing funds.
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Barclays customers encounter a second day of disruptions following an IT outage
Barclays customers are experiencing intermittent errors with payments and transfers for a second day after serious IT problems that also affected the bank’s app and online banking.
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