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Barclays refuses to hand over £4,000 after Brexit account closure

My mother in Italy was told her account was to be closed after 40 years. Now she can’t retrieve the balance

What are the best debit cards for your kids to spend safely?

From the new HyperJar service to 1.5m member-strong gohenry, pocket money apps are booming. We assess how they stack up

Team GB Tokyo 2020 Olympics 50p coin is on track to be a winning investment

Collectors likely to snap up new 50p – some London 2012 coins are worth 100 times their original value

Mike Lynch extradition question is a sovereignty issue for UK business

UK entrepreneur may have to stand trial in US but it’s hard to imagine the same situation in reverse

ECB leaves rates at record lows in 2% inflation push; US jobless claims rise – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Treasury to sell off further NatWest shares worth up to £1.2bn

Government still holds a 54.7% stake in NatWest after 2008 £46bn bailout to keep bank afloat

Why the Bank of England has its head in the cloud over data security

Rapid digitalisation of banking services and increasing reliance on just three tech giants has made the Bank uneasy

Mortgages: don’t be dazzled by super-low interest rates

Ultra-low fixed-rate deals can look very attractive, but the no-fee higher rate can often make for a better bargain

Revolut valuation makes little sense when compared with Lloyds

How can this six-year-old fintech firm be worth £24bn, supposedly 70% of Lloyds’ stock market value?

Revolut becomes UK’s biggest fintech firm with £24bn valuation

Surge comes after banking app raised $800m from new investors Tiger Global Management and SoftBank

Financial Conduct Authority to open offices in Cardiff, Belfast and Leeds

Regulator’s plan to become less London-centric also includes doubling of headcount in Edinburgh

Would you pay £63 for a chicken? The artist who built a street to show house price madness

When Doug Fishbone came across an abandoned apartment complex in Cork, he decided to recreate it in a gallery – to highlight everything that’s wrong with our property-fuelled financial system

Banks can now unleash a dividend party – but the optics wouldn’t be good

Swimming in capital and with dividend restrictions gone, banks have plenty to give shareholders

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan report bumper second-quarter profits

Investment banking arms of two Wall Street firms benefit from global glut of mergers and acquisitions

Met police seize nearly £180m of bitcoin in money laundering investigation

Seizure follows confiscation of £114m of the cryptocurrency in June

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