Salad Finance raises £4.3m from UK retail investors across five bond offers
Source: Salad Salad Finance (Salad), the UK’s largest consumer lending Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), has so far…
HSBC & Standard Chartered complete tokenised deposit deal
KAREN JOY BACUDO Finance Editor Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed a live cross-border tokenised deposit transaction on…
Can London Regain Its Edge? Inside the FCA’s Overhaul of UK IPO Rules
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has officially dismantled key restrictions governing initial public offerings (IPOs), marking one of…
Aviva brings Financial Institutions underwriting to UK regions
Aviva, the UK insurer and part of its Global, Corporate & Specialty division, is expanding its Financial Institutions…
AI won’t replace wealth advisors, it will redefine them
Wealth advisors are not being replaced by artificial intelligence, but their role is being fundamentally rewritten, according to…
World Cup leads spending boost as confidence rises, Barclays says
Tuesday 11 August 2026 4:19 am | Updated: Monday 10 August 2026 5:28 pm British pubs got a spending…
London small firms lead UK in AI use, survey finds
Small businesses in London are the most likely in the UK to be using artificial intelligence, according to…
NatWest customers gain access to Equifax UK’s ‘Verification Exchange’ solution
Source: Equifax UK Equifax UK has announced that NatWest will be the first UK high street bank to…
HSBC kicks off $1bn share buyback after profit smashes forecast
Tuesday 04 August 2026 7:04 am HSBC released its half-year update on Tuesday. HSBC has resumed its share…
UK cemented its place as the European FinTech hub attracting over a third of all deals in H1
Key European FinTech investment stats in H1 2026: European FinTech deal activity grew 9% in H1UK cemented its…
Lloyds completes live tokenised deposit tests in Agorá
KAREN JOY BACUDO Finance Editor Lloyds Banking Group has completed three live tokenised deposit transactions through Project Agorá,…
‘It’s going to impact work’: Lloyds to cut £2bn in costs with AI
Thursday 30 July 2026 2:28 pm | Updated: Thursday 30 July 2026 3:08 pm The boss of Lloyds Banking…