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A recent survey by Nationwide Building Society has highlighted the ever growing popularity of online banking amongst the internet generation, and  suprisingly internet banking has even outranked the use of social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook. The research conducted by Opinion Matters earlier this year, asked 1500 internet users as to what their [...]

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Following a successful trial period, Santander have launched a brand new service for all of their online banking customers, and allows users to receive  variety of text alerts for their current and savings accounts.  Whilst this type of service is already well established and utilised within the banking community, it still continues to provide a [...]

 Mobile Banking,News       

RBS and Natwest have recently launched a Blackberry smart phone app, providing their customers with another means of connecting to thier banking services.  This app builds on the success of their iPhone and iPad apps released earlier this year and keeps them ahead of the competition as many banks are still to enter properly into [...]

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What’s happening? Its taken a while for Santander to ‘assimilate’ Alliance & Leicester into it’s business, as it was back in July 2010 that they first announced the integration of accounts between the two banks.  However, we’ve now been informed that they are currently switching Alliance & Leicester account holders over to the Santander online banking [...]

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Following the issues yesterday with HSBC’s systems, it seems that Natwest and RBS are also suffering difficulties and that their customers are unable to access their online banking service.  Visitors to both their sites are greated with a ‘not available’ service message.  

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HSBC and First Direct customers suffered for over 2 hours today when the bank’s computer systems suffered a breakdown.  As well as affecting their online banking services the problems also hit cash machines and in branch systems, resulting in customers unable to access account information and withdraw cash. The bank’s customer services and website struggled to cope as [...]

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NatWest have recently advised us that as part of their commitment to becoming the UK’s most Helpful Bank, they’ve introduced some new features that will make it easier for you to bank online. What’s more, it’s now even simpler for you to pay bills or transfer money to family and friends.

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It seems to be the ‘upgrades month’ this month,as Northern Rock have also just announced that they’ll be implementing some improvements to their online banking service from the 18th September 2011. Whilst not a significant update in terms of functionality, it does provide some cosmetic improvements to their service to bring it in line with their main website and [...]

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  Halifax have advised us that they are currently implementing an upgrade to their online banking system, though their System Availability page on their site is still showing “Our Online service is currently operating normally.” Unfortunately a side effect of this system being updated means that you will have restricted access to viewing statements in [...]

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We’ve been advised by Halifax that they are currently experiencing an issue with accessing their Share Dealing service.  Fortunately it seems that it is just one method of accessing their service which is causing a problem. If you usually access your Share Dealing account by logging into your Halifax Online Banking site, then you will be currently unable to [...]