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18 May 2018
The BSA help to deliver financial education to one London primary school with the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Mike Regnier, the Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Building Society and Nigel Moore, the Strand Branch Manager.
09 May 2018
Associate Knowledge: Guest blog from BSA Associate, LMS
01 May 2018
Associate Knowledge: Guest blog from BSA Associate, RSM
26 April 2018
A guest blog by Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK.
It is easy to talk nowadays. We have more ways than ever of expressing our views, from tweets, blogs and updates to the incessant polls that dominate our newspapers. But it can all feel tribal, with social media feeds acting as an echo chamber. Is it as easy to listen?
16 April 2018
Associate Knowledge: Guest blog from Paragon Customer Communications
10 April 2018
The window for entries to this year's MoneyAge Awards is now open.
Now in its third year, these awards celebrate excellence, professionalism and innovation in personal finance space and for the first time the BSA is one of the Supporters.
09 April 2018
People saving with building societies earned £775 million in additional interest on their savings last year than if they had earned the average interest rates paid by large Monetary Financial Institutions, a group mainly comprising the big banks.
29 March 2018
Apprenticeships and skills Minister Anne Milton MP visited YBS after the Society offered up to 24 apprenticeships in IT, Customer Services, Project Management and Cyber Security. All apprentices at YBS are paid above the Living Wage and recruited on a permanent contract, entitling them to the same benefits as a non-apprentice.
22 March 2018
Blog first published on Politics Home website on 22/3/18
On 5 April 2018, the Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) benefit will be changed to a second charge loan. DWP via Serco has issued thousands of letters and made thousands of telephone calls to many current benefit recipients to let them know what is going on and what signing up to an SMI loan entails. But there are still up to 80,000 households who for whatever reason have either not yet engaged or in the case of around half of them may not have yet been contacted. This is a challenge that could well have a long tail with vulnerable borrowers seeing their arrears rise.
05 March 2018
Dr Andreas Dombret of the German Bundesbank returns to the case for proportionality in banking regulation in a powerful new speech.
Building Societies performed well in this year's British Bank Awards. For the second year in a row, our sector took home two key awards.
19 February 2018
Building societies often say they offer superior customer service, but how do they actually compare to other financial service providers, and how are they able to beat the banks and offer competitive products at the same time?