When you’ve struggled with your money in the past, opening a bank account can be a lot more difficult than some people realise. Many people take their bank account for granted. But for someone with a bad credit rating – whether that’s due to a past bankruptcy, for example, or general problems with debt – [...]
23 June 2011
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First Direct were early to market with their iPhone banking app, but it hasn’t changed a great deal for some time, and a First Direct Android app has been lacking much to the annoyance of many of First Direct Android phone users. Well good news, they are about to release a new Android and iPhone mobile [...]
4 December 2012
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Barclays have informed us that they will be carrying out essential maintenance to their Online Banking service on Sunday 28 October, between 1:00am and 3:30am, during which time you won’t be able to log in. We guess there won’t be many of you needing the service during these hours, so it should only affect a few people. [...]
27 October 2012
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First Direct, arguably one of Britain’s favourite banks if there is such a thing, came under a ‘Distributed Denial Of Service Attack on 18th October 2012′. The resulting lack of service via the web and mobile apps came as quite a surprise to many.
19 October 2012
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Looks like First Direct are having some issues with their online services. Lets hope for them it isn’t anything to long lasting like Natwest and HSBC encountered. Hi everyone, just to let you know we are having problems with our systems online. We are working to fix this as soon as possible, really sorry for any [...]
18 October 2012
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Following feedback from their customers, Barclays have redesigned and re-launched their bank account statements. The new-look statements have been made simpler and easier to use to ensure you can quickly see the information you need from them. Barclay’s use the same format for both their online and postal statements, so this makes it very easy to move [...]
18 September 2012
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We’ve been advised by Barclays that they will be carrying out routine maintenance on their Online Banking service between 12am and 3am on Sunday 15th July. During this time you will not be able to login to your account. Hopefully you won’t suffer a similar fate experienced by Natwest customers last month, when a ‘routine’ upgrade on [...]
14 July 2012
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Barclays have finally joined the other mainstream banks with the first release of their banking smartphone app. This adds an additional channel to it’s existing web-based mobile banking platform, though for some reason has only been released for Android smart phones. The iPhone, Blackberry and Nokia platforms have not had a release, though we would expect something to emerge [...]
7 July 2012
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Having first started back on Tuesday 19th June 2012, the systems for Natwest and RBS bank are still in chaos after 7 days. Not sure how many heads will roll for this screw up! This is a serious system breakdown and a highly public embarresement for the Bank, and one that may well trigger a [...]
25 June 2012
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Most major banks have an app for smart phones these days, and they are now being targeted by online fraudsters. Consumers in the UK are being bombarded with financial banking apps to help them manage their money on the move, but technology experts are warning of the potential security risks, says Alexandra Goss in last weeks Sunday [...]
7 June 2012
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Unlikely that you’ll be doing your banking online in the early hours, but if you do then Barclay’s have a 3 hour routine maintenance happening between 2am and 5am. Hopefully everything will be up and running without any issues after the updates, though some banks have had issues last year (Natwest/RBS and HSBC)
19 May 2012
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