Halifax Group

80 results about this entity

Period: 12 Aug 2005 - 13 Sep 2024

UK banking industry set for contactless card roll out

UK banks will begin rolling out plastic credit and debit cards featuring contactless payment technology from either Visa or MasterCard to cardholders in September.

Halifax customer data stolen

UK bank Halifax has admitted that paper documents containing confidential information on some 13,000 of its mortgage customers have been stolen from an employee's car.

Motley Fool launches online share dealing service in UK

Personal finance Web site The Motley Fool has launched an online share dealing service for UK investors.

UK banks hit out at pre-paid card accounts

High street banks Halfiax and HSBC have hit out at the 'hidden costs' of pre-paid cash cards, as MasterCard debuts a new pay-as-you-go card aimed at the UK migrant community.

UK banks' online sales efforts fall flat

While financial services firms encourage consumers to apply for products via the Web, none of the UK's top six banks and building societies provide site visitors with strong content and functionality for researching and applying for credit cards, according to a new report by Forrester Research.

Halifax creates 1500 jobs in new branches

UK banking group HBOS is to open 100 new Halifax branches over the course of the next five years in a move that will create 1500 new jobs.

UK task force to investigate cheque clearing times

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is leading an investigation into cheque clearing times as part of an on-going effort to increase the efficiency of the national payments system.

Cheques to become extinct in 20 years

Increasing use of electronic banking services and direct debit will have killed off paper cheques within the next 20 years, according to research from the UK's Halifax bank.