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Nationwide partners Swindon Institute of Technology to deliver apprenticeships

Nationwide Building Society has teamed up with the new Swindon Institute of Technology to recruit apprentices in area such as cybersecurity, software development and DevOps.

11 February 2021

News/devops

Open Banking year three: Insights from the CMA9

The UK banking industry had its hands full in 2020 as institutions had to respond to lockdowns and other restrictions on business activity designed to curb the spread of Covid-19. What effect did this have on the ongoing adoption of Open Banking? In Finextra’s annual review, we look at how Open Banking has grown, what still needs to improve and what will happen next.

13 January 2021

News/retail

Nationwide pledges not to leave any towns until 2023

Citing the Covid-19 pandemic, Nationwide Building Society has extended its pledge not to leave any town or city in the UK where it has a branch until at least 2023.

20 November 2020

Company announcement/regulation

Nationwide taps Accuity to screen cross-border Visa Direct payments

Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, has joined forces with Accuity, the global compliance provider to start accepting cross-border transactions via Visa Direct.

17 November 2020

News/cloud

Nationwide implements Speed Layer tech

Nationwide Building Society has rolled out a new cloud-native Speed Layer to help it quickly deploy new products and services.

28 August 2020

News/retail

Nationwide switches on Apple Business Chat

Nationwide is giving clients the option of conversing with an AI agent via Apple Business Chat as an alternative to dialing up its call centre.

20 August 2020

News/payments

Form3 raises £33 million with support from Nationwide and Lloyds

Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide have contributed to a £33 million funding round in cloud-native payments technology house Form3.

18 August 2020

Company announcement/retail

Nationwide offers customers six-months free subscription to energy saving startup Switchd

Nationwide Building Society is today announcing that it will offer members six-months free subscription to Switchd, a company that automatically switches people’s energy supplier to ensure they are always on the best deal.

17 July 2020

News/retail

Nationwide records surge in video calls during pandemic

An early adopter of Microsoft Teams, Nationwide Building Society has logged over 2.5 million video calls a month between staff working from home during the Coronavirus lockdown.

09 July 2020

News/payments

Brits go weeks without using cash during Covid-19 lockdown

Brits have gone an average of 44 days without using cash as they ditch notes and coins for contactless payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey from Nationwide Building Society.

11 June 2020

News/retail

Nationwide rolls out online mental health tools for staffers

Nationwide Building Society has built an online tool that helps employees who are experiencing mental health issues during the Covid-19 outbreak get access to support.

27 May 2020

News/retail

Challengers beat incumbents on account opening experience

Many of the UK's leading high street banks have fallen behind their upstart digital rivals when it comes to making it easy and fast to open an account, suggests a review of 12 players' user experience.

25 May 2020