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UK mortgages: 100% loans are back – will they work for you?

The controversial loan has returned. We look at the deals and explain why it’s worth saving up a 5% deposit or more

NatWest apologises to millions of customers locked out of app

In latest IT outage to hit a UK bank, group is investigating problem caused by update to app late on Thursday

Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links

Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel

Starling pays out fivefold bonus sum despite FCA fine and Covid loan errors

Staff get £24.6m after year in which bank was penalised for ‘shockingly lax’ controls and profits fell 25% to £223m

Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets

Confiscating the funds would shock Putin, help Ukraine, and take advantage of disillusionment in the US economy

Hubris, crisis and scandal: how the NatWest ‘soap opera’ unfolded

From Fred ‘the Shred’ Goodwin to Nigel Farage ousting the CEO, it’s been a bumpy ride for the now-privatised banking group, formerly RBS

UK banks urged to beef up anti-fraud systems for international payments

Data reveals ‘notable increase’ in scammers tricking people into sending money abroad

Government sells final shares in NatWest 17 years after £45bn bailout

Sale ends state ownership of the banking group, then known as Royal Bank of Scotland, after 2008 rescue

Sidi Ould Tah named African Development Bank president

Mauritanian economist who led Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa will succeed Akinwunmi Adesina

Starling’s profits drop 25% as bank takes blame for Covid loan losses

Our own weak controls led to £28m of losses through government’s bounce back loans, says chief executive

Taxpayers set for £10bn loss on NatWest as disgraced ex-boss takes £600k-a-year pension

Government expected to sell last shares in banking group this week, drawing a line under 2008 financial crisis bailout

HSBC high street bank staff face bonus cuts over remote working

Bank’s UK division hardens hybrid working policy with requirement to spend at least 60% of time in office

Online criminals attacking HSBC ‘all the time’, says head of UK arm

Ian Stuart tells MPs that cybersecurity is biggest expense as bank systems face scrutiny after M&S and Co-op attacks

Santander UK freezes salaries and cuts jobs in commercial banking arm

Exclusive: Bank also set to slash bonuses in wider shake-up that could help make it more attractive to potential buyers

Five common banking mistakes – and how to avoid making them

If you are sticking loyally with a bank, using an overdraft or failing to read the small print, you may well be losing out

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