111 results about this entity
Period: 08 Mar 2010 - 12 Nov 2024
News
The UK's Tax Incentivised Savings Association (Tisa) has set up a group to explore how technological innovation will change the way people save and invest.
22 May 2014
Metro Bank founder Anthony Thomson has recruited first direct chief Mark Mullen to head a new UK digital bank.
09 April 2014
UK mobile commerce outfit Zapp says it is hopeful of bringing more major banks onboard ahead of its launch later this year but has still not gone public with any retail partners.
20 March 2014
Five major UK financial services firms have committed to rolling out mobile payments technology from Zapp, enabling customers to make in-store and online purchases from within their banking apps.
15 January 2014
The UK Payments Council is to develop a Payments Roadmap, setting out key strategic short-term and long-term goals for restructuring the nation's payments infrastructure over the next three, five and ten years.
17 June 2013
The UK banking sector is gearing up for the introduction of an industry-wide mobile payments service next spring, with eight major institutions committed to the launch.
15 January 2013
Royal Bank of Scotland is to slash over 600 UK jobs in reaction to incoming rules on the sale of investment products to customers. The cuts have been described as "brutal" by union leaders and competing banks that have opted to invest in a branch-based sales force.
19 June 2012
Metro Bank has raised £126 million as it prepares to step up its assault on the high street with a raft of new branches in London and the South East.
11 June 2012
Metro Bank says it will open 16 new UK branches in the next 18 months, trebling the size of its network as it looks to build on a first year on the high street that has seen 25,000 retail and business accounts opened.
25 July 2011
Finextra TV
Anthony Thomson, chairman of Metro Bank sits down with Finextra at the Temenos Community Forum in Lisbon to discuss their 'customer channel agnostic' strategy.
26 May 2011
UK banking upstart Metro Bank says its first branch exceeded full-year account opening targets in its first month of operation.
03 September 2010
Metro Bank, the first new high street player to enter the UK market for over 100 years, has opened its doors to the public, running on a technology platform from Swiss vendor Temenos.
29 July 2010
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