Weekly Headline Roundup: 08-12-2023

Headline Update 08-12-2023 :

-> UK Credit Cards: Stable Activity in September Ahead of Holiday Period

-> UK challenger Aldermore Bank enters strategic partnership with Mambu

-> Metro Bank to axe 20% of jobs and review branch opening hours in push to cut costs

-> Coventry Building Society reportedly eyeing Co-operative Bank takeover

-> FCA publishes update on the cash savings market

-> RBC fined $7.5 million over AML violations

-> Household debt costs set to double

-> The MetaVerse is dead, long live the Metaverse: Credit & Collections Technology Think Tank view from the Chair

-> One in four likely to use Buy Now Pay Later to pay for Christmas

-> UK falling behind rest of the world on realising value from new technology

-> 2023 Credit & Collections Technology Think Tank review

-> 33% of shoppers plan to haggle this Christmas

-> Four in ten renters paying £1,200 above advertised rate

-> Consumers show increased financial optimism

-> 900,000 mortgage customers likely to have adverse credit in 2024