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Hong Kong set to approve first crypto ETF

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Lloyds tells employees to be back in office two days a week

Lloyds tells employees to be back in office two days a week

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Over a third of Covid support loans issued by Starling at risk of default

Over a third of Covid support loans issued by Starling at risk of default

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Fintechs savaged over Covid loan fraud

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Lloyds tells employees to be back in office two days a week
A Finextra Member

A Finextra member

  2 days a week in the office is absurd - if employees are unwilling to work 5 days a week in the office they are clearly uncommitted to thier employer and colleagues. Flexibility is obviously important and desirable, but the default should be 5 days in the office with flexibility to work from home when that flexibility is needed.

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Lloyds tells employees to be back in office two days a week
A Finextra Member

A Finextra member

  The pilot is actually to remove compressed working and enforce 5 working days.

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Over a third of Covid support loans issued by Starling at risk of default
Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon

  This is a disgrace and probably the end of the neo-bank sector in the UK. It is an affront to decent hardworking families. I wonder how the losses compare to the income tax and national insurance paid over by the workforce at an employer like the steelworks in Consett Count Durham for its entire existence - up in smoke!

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Over a third of Covid support loans issued by Starling at risk of default
Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan

  Curious to know the latest status of Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden's threat of legal action against former anti-fraud minister Lord Agnew. 

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Starling posts first profitable year

Starling posts first profitable year

Banks choosing to build and not buy tech, suggests survey

Banks choosing to build and not buy tech, suggests survey

Fintech valuations fall by half a trillion

Fintech valuations fall by half a trillion

MUFG shutters blockchain-based payments network

MUFG shutters blockchain-based payments network

Elsewhere...

  1. The Herald Scotland

    Lloyds Banking Group: Staff protest over changes to flexible working

  2. Daily Mail

    Citigroup opens investment banking hub in MALAGA in a bid to attract staff who want a lifestyle change - and more free time - after Covid

  3. Yahoo!Finance

    A former Citigroup employee says she quit over the bank's vaccine mandate because 'freedom was more important than a paycheck'

  4. BBC

    Bankers told to return to desks as restrictions end

  5. LBC

    Atom Bank ‘committed’ to four-day week after early signs of success