Company
UK Finance is the trade association representing banks and financial services firms operating in the United Kingdom, advocating on policy and regulation.
The TUC says cutting the bank surcharge from 8% to 3% in 2023 cost the UK £6bn over three years. It wants a higher rate at the 28 October budget, so bank finance teams have a scenario to price while the Treasury has not stated its intentions.
Reality
Bosses of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and three other lenders make their tax case to John Healey on Tuesday, just over four weeks before his first Budget. Signals from his Treasury leave lenders that wanted the 3% surcharge phased out defending against a rise.
Reality
Lloyds polled 100 senior UK finance decision-makers and 60% named faster settlement as tokenization's biggest opportunity, ahead of collateral at 41%. The poll points to a payoff counted in freed liquidity, and the banks' first sizeable test comes with bond issues planned for early 2027.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishersReality
HSBC's licensed Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, is due by year-end inside PayMe, an app with more than 3.3 million users. No coin has been issued yet, so that figure is the reach of Hong Kong's biggest lender, and demand for the token is still untested.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishersReality
Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC settled Britain's first interbank transfers of tokenised sterling deposits in three pilot transactions. The Bank of England favours such tokens over private stablecoins, yet it still sketches a system where the two convert at par.
Reality
Researchers matched 5,428 women who disclosed financial abuse to a UK bank against 15,602 customers who did not, using profiles from seven years earlier, and then tracked 373 financial measures across both groups.
Reality
The regulator says the big design questions are now settled. Everything after that, procurement included, has to fit inside a clock that is already running.
Reality