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Nationwide customers issued update over £200 bonus payments
Nationwide members may want to spend some time reading over the key rules for a bonus payments scheme from the provider. One-off payments are currently available from several banks, making this an ideal time to review your bank accounts and savings…
Hong Kong a key global hub for USDC cross-border payments: Circle CEO
Stablecoin payments into Hong Kong are surging on the cross-border payment network of Circle Internet Group, operator of the world's second largest stablecoin issuer USDC, as the US firm eyes regulatory approval in the Asian crypto hub, its CEO…
Nationwide Fairer Share Payment latest as announcement expected
Millions of Nationwide members are keeping their fingers crossed for a free £100 payment later in 2026. This follows the world's largest building society distributing what it refers to as 'Fairer Share Payments' in 2023, 2024, and once more…
Colleges continue cutting tennis programs to fund other sports and athlete payments
The NCAA men's and women's tennis tournaments opened Friday, and what should be a time of celebration for the sport has had a pall cast over it with more Division I schools announcing this week they would be dropping their programs because of the…
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May 2026 DWP payment dates for benefits & pensions plus cost of living support
May is here, meaning some of the bill rises ‘awful April' brought will likely be starting to settle in for UK households. This time of year is always challenging for finances, as bill payers grapple with the higher expenses of the new…
Older state pensioners handed bumper £1,479.20 Friday payments in May
Older state pensioners will get a £440 boost Some lucky older state pensioners will have a bumper May with two DWP state pension payments totalling up to £1,479.20. Those who retired before April 2016 are given less per week than new…
State Pension Triple Lock rules as pressure grows on future payments
More than 13 million people across Great Britain rely on the State Pension Triple Lock to boost their payments each year, but questions are growing about whether it can continue in its current form. The Triple Lock measure guarantees the State…
Nationwide 'check the rules' warning over £100 payments into customer accounts
Nationwide Building Society customers could soon get some bonus cash Nationwide members may want to read over some key rules relating to a bonus payment from the provider. You can potentially get one-off payments from several banks at the moment…
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Brazil Central Bank Bars Virtual Assets From eFX Payments
Brazil's central bank, Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), has barred the use of virtual assets in certain regulated international payment and transfer services, tightening rules for cross-border payment providers operating under the country's eFX…
Martin Lewis urges state pensioners to check payments as 'even more now eligible'
Martin Lewis issued some tips on his BBC podcast Martin Lewis has urged state pensioners to check if they could claim some extra DWP payments. The consumer advocate urged older Britons to check their eligibility for a 'fundamentally underclaimed'…
DWP stopping payments for two benefits
Two benefits are no longer being paid by the DWP as part of a major overhaul to the welfare system. Officials have set out latest details about the switch to Universal Credit (UC). A number of so-called legacy benefits are being scrapped as a…
HMRC to issue 'payments will stop' warning to 1.5m parents this month
HM Revenue & Customs is sending letters to 1.5 million parents, reminding them to extend their child benefit if their teenager is continuing in education or training post-GCSEs. The benefit automatically ceases on August 31 following a child's 16th…
DWP Attendance Allowance rules older people should know or payments could stop
More than 1.7 million pensioners across Great Britain are now receiving Attendance Allowance, a tax-free, non-means-tested benefit for people over 66. However, claimants must report certain changes in circumstances immediately - or risk having…
Mastercard Sees Data Moving Payments From KYC to KYA
Both risk and opportunity across the payments industry are being increasingly defined by what happens in a millisecond—and what doesn't. “What AI (artificial intelligence) has done is enable us, in that real time, in that moment, to…
Are you getting a check? Blue Cross Blue Shield $2.67B settlement payments finally start going out
Nearly six years later, checks from a $2.67 billion settlement fund related to Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance are being sent to affected customers. Initial distributions started in May for the millions who filed claims in the antitrust…
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