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New Payments Architecture: “The Mother of All Contracts”

It really is the mother of all contracts. The winner will watched like a hawk by three watchdogs: the Bank…

New Payments Architecture: Kicking a £6 Trillion Can?

Vendors seeking to tender for a sweeping overhaul of the UK's multi-trillion payments infrastructure are being kept on tenterhooks –…

“Squids In”? Goldman Sachs Launches UK Retail Bank Account

Goldman Sachs, the prestigious investment bank notoriously pilloried by Rolling Stone after the financial crisis as a "a great vampire…

Faster Payments Outage: Cause Still Unknown; 8,000 Still Chasing Transactions

Two days after the backbone of the UK’s online banking system suffered a four-hour outage, nearly 8,000 people are still estimated…

UK Online Banking Infrastructure in Mystery Outage

The backbone of the UK’s online banking infrastructure went down for four hours on Sunday, leaving nearly a million customers…