Okay, we're not going to beat around the bush -- today we're shoving you in the direction of a hundred quid, free of charge and in exchange for you having to do very little. Read More >>

The EU has tabled a few draft proposals designed to force banks to be clearer on their charges and make comparing fees easier, which could bring about the long-heralded end of mostly "free" banking in the UK. Read More >>

A signature-based security approach is only effective if a cashier actually double checks what's scrawled across the back of a credit card. And even then, there's still plenty of opportunity for fraud since minimum wage clerks usually aren't capable of spotting a forged signature—but one day your credit card might be. Read More >>

I'm not sure why, but Natwest and RBS aren't exactly doing a stand-up job of, well, standing up. Both banks had their cards, cash machines, online, and phone banking go tits-up last night. Apparently loads of people had their cards swallowed by ATMs and everything, but did you even notice? Read More >>

One step forward, two steps back. NatWest has, seemingly, had to pull its app that allowed you to get cash out of a cash machine without needing a debit card. It seems fraudsters could hijack the app and rinse people's bank accounts for cash without them knowing a thing about it. Read More >>

Oh dear, it looks like it's really not a good time to be a Natwest or Nationwide customer. After the debacle Natwest had last month, its debit cards and online banking are borked again, while Nationwide saw over 700,000 people hit with bank account-emptying duplicate payments. Read More >>

When you're thinking up a Twitter name for yourself, it's probably best not to pick a company name. It's not because said company will come after you, but it's users might when things go tits up. Read More >>

The complete crash of RBS and Natwest's payment system for four days last week was caused by a glitch in an automated batch processing tool, which is a rather mundane explanation for the banks' complete failure to register payments last week. Read More >>

The "helpful bank" is having issues. Legions of its customers have been reporting problems; from debit cards to online banking, it looks like everything is screwed. Read More >>

The phone looks set to claim another victim -- the humble bank card seems on the way out, thanks to RBS, Natwest and NCR. You can now request up to £100 using just your phone and an ATM, perfect for emergency beer money. Read More >>

Pingit, the Barclays app that lets bankers and normal people send money to each other with their phones, has been opened up to support all the other kinds of bank. Read More >>

Want some cash in Gifu Prefecture, Japan? Come September, you'll be able to just press some flesh with one of Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank's biometric ATMs to access your accounts. Read More >>

Using an automated teller machine is inherently risky. You stand there, your back turned, signaling to everyone around that you're about to have a wad of tens in your pocket. If you're lucky, there's a security guard on duty. But usually it's just you and whoever is lurking in that little convex mirror. Read More >>

Membership in the Anonymous hacker collective is not without its dangers—and I don't mean just the 25 Guys in custody. Turns out that someone slipped a Trojan into some popular Anon DDoS software and has been stealing bank info from anyone that runs it. Read More >>

Barclays has launched cross-platform smartphone app Barclays Pingit, which lets BlackBerry, iPhone and Android users transfer money to each other not by the modern NFC system, but by good, old-fashioned text messaging. Read More >>