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New British financial watchdog to open bank payments to competition

By Huw Jones LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Britain's newest regulator set out on Thursday how it will wrest strategic direction of the 75 trillion pound ($118 trillion) payments sector from its big bank owners to spur competition. The payments system forms the vital plumbing that allowed

UK BROKER RATINGS: Barclays And UBS Cut Aberdeen Asset Management

UK MIDDAY BRIEFING: Serco To Take Two More Years To Turn Around

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UK MORNING BRIEFING: Serco Drops 30% On Profit Warning

British challenger bank Aldermore's lending up 30 pct this year

LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Aldermore, the new British bank that last month cancelled plans for a stock market listing, said its loan book swelled 10 percent to 4.4 billion pounds ($7 billion) in the latest quarter. The bank, which was expected to be valued at about 800 million pounds in the

PRESS: More Than 5,000 In Lloyds Lawsuit Over HBOS Takeover - FT

MEDIA-Investors sue Lloyds over 400 mln pounds loss from HBOS deal - FT

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Competition Investigation Launched Into UK Banks

UPDATE 2-UK banks face break-up threat as competition probe launched

* Lack of competition for personal, small businesses -watchdog * Probe marks latest step to break dominance of UK's "big 4" banks * Investigation could take until summer 2016 * Lloyds shares down 1.2 pct, Barclays, RBS, HSBC dip (Adds comments from politicians, business group,

UK BROKER RATINGS: M&S Upgraded By Goldman, UBS, Deutsche Bank

UK MORNING BRIEFING: Shares Lower Amid Flurry Of Corporate Reporting

CMA launches enquiry into current accounts and SME banking

The UK competition authority has launched an "in-depth market investigation" into both the personal current account and small business retail banking sectors, which could help 'challenger banks' to grow. Having in July said it was looking at whether to probe the sector, the Competition and Markets A

UK launches probe into competition for banking services

LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Britain's competition watchdog launched a full investigation into banking services for small business customers and personal accounts on Thursday that could see big banks forced to sell branches or face other remedial measures. The Competition and Markets Authority

Smaller banks, non-execs at risk from new UK rules - industry

LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Smaller banks would be disproportionately hit by new UK rules aimed at toughening the regulatory regime for senior bankers, two of the industry's main lobby groups have warned. UK regulators should also set different rules for non-executive directors than for execu