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21 February 2020
Ahead of the BSA’s second Understanding Fintech course on 17 and 18 March, the BSA asked the course teacher Richard Johnson to give his predictions about the future of fintech and how building societies might use technology to leverage their social purpose
20 February 2020
Miles Advisory shares why they think well-being is important to our sector's workforce.
11 February 2020
With the electronic transfer of the cheque image, this clearing cycle has been reduced to two working days for access to cleared funds. However, the process presents some new challenges.
05 February 2020
The BSA is supporting the latest Take Five campaign, which incorporates updated messaging, general advice and an industry toolkit for use by financial services to help customers spot and prevent acts of fraud on their accounts.
27 January 2020
SONIA vs LIBOR: Joe Di Rollo, ALMIS International MD, shares his thoughts
11 December 2019
Since Open Banking launched in 2018 giving consumers control over their own data, there has been a mountain to climb in terms of the technical implementation to make it a reality. However, building societies and credit unions have been some of the early pioneers using Open Banking in the market.
29 November 2019
Jeremy Palmer, BSA Head of Financial Policy urges the Treasury to pick up and complete the task of widening credit union powers that has been held up for five years since the original policy decisions were made.
28 November 2019
Plans for the BSA Annual Conference 2020 are in full swing. If you are planning to attend, here's some information you may find useful.
22 November 2019
People saving with building societies earned over £450 million more in interest than if they’d received the average interest rate paid by the major banks across the first half of 2019.
21 November 2019
With 9 trophies and 15 highly commended nods across 13 categories, people really are better off with a building society.
31 October 2019
The BSA's Jeremy Palmer welcomes some profound and insightful observations contained in Sam Woods’ speech – “Credit union meets robot” - given on 24 October at the Mansion House.
29 October 2019
Pradeep Ramen, director of digital solutions at DPR, talks about how the UK mortgage market is finally starting to embrace digital technology that has already transformed the US mortgage market.