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Atom Bank completes largest Scottish deal

Both properties are high-quality office facilities, multi-storey and with occupants ranging from professional firms to national PLCs.

Generali and France's BPCE scrap plans to merge asset management units

Generali in January signed a non-binding accord with BPCE to combine their asset management units - Generali Investment Holding and Natixis Investment Managers - and create Europe's largest asset manager by revenue.

StreamBank unveils simplified bridging product range

Loans are available from £100,000 to £3 million, with options for both FCA regulated and unregulated cases.

NatWest Group joins finance firms to launch UK Retail Investment Campaign

The industry-wide campaign is supported by His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS), with the Investment Association (IA) acting as Secretariat.

Lloyds completes its first India–UK digital Letter of Credit on WaveBL

It was executed entirely through the WaveBL platform and demonstrates how digital trade is shifting from long processing cycles to almost real-time execution.

NatWest signs four university partnerships to fuel UK entrepreneurial growth

Universities of Oxford, Manchester, Brighton and York sign Entrepreneur partnerships with Britain’s biggest bank for business.

Tietoevry Banking publishes insight report on card transformation for leading banks

These are the four factors behind successful banking transformation

International Banker 2025 Western & Eastern European Awards Winners

The turmoil has prompted investors to sell off French assets, raising domestic financing costs relative to those of its European peers.

London calling: HSBC decision makers mull next steps for retail biz

The sale process has been playing out under much secrecy since it was launched in July, part of a global clean-up of the bank by new chief executive Georges Elhedery.

TSB’s profit soars ahead of Santander takeover

It came as the bank drastically slashed costs, falling 7.5 per cent to £581.7m.

Lloyds' use of staff bank data during pay talks 'concerning'

The UK's biggest lender compared its employees' spending habits to the wider public to show if they weathered the cost-of-living crisis better.

ABN AMRO to acquire NIBC Bank

The acquisition of NIBC also increases the scale of ABN AMRO’s position in the Dutch, German and Belgian savings markets.

Nationwide promises to keep ALL branches open until at least 2030 in boost to high streets

The announcement from Britain's biggest building society bucks the trend that has seen more than two thirds of bank branches shuttered over the past decade.

State Street to Extend Strategic Relationship with Intesa Sanpaolo

Integration of Intesa Sanpaolo’s technology services strengthens State Street’s position as a primary securities services provider in Europe

BBVA Switzerland launches an interactive experience to understand our investment behavior

The proposal is based on an idea that is as simple as it is powerful: understanding the reasons and emotions that mark the different phases of investing.

Two dozen banks to shut in November

Two thirds of all high street branches have closed in the last decade

A Critical Juncture: Lenders' Path to Commercial Excellence

Together, multiple forces are tightening the margin for error in core banking book commercial models.

Santander reduces new business and product transfer fixed rates and makes changes to large loan products

Alongside this, it is introducing new large loan products for remortgage customers across both ranges

BBVA, companies' strategic partner

BBVA is much more than a financial provider: it is the strategic partner that boosts companies’ growth, combining knowledge, innovation and sustainability.

RBS joins NatWest in bringing in 'UK first' for banking customers

RBS has revealed plans to "launch the first IP-backed loans" for high growth businesses, it says.

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