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Is the mobile payments revolution finally underway in the UK? Barclaycard thinks it’s about time. It has launched a new way to pay without a debit card. It’s called PayTag and it allows you to pay with a mere gesture, just like an Oyster card allows you to board a London bus or tube train [...]

Clearly, one thing the Internet has enabled us all to do is to compare products. From spaghetti sauces to ski resorts, we’ve come to rely on star ratings, features tables and user reviews to work out winners from the crowd of contenders.

Banks are at long last coming round to the idea that the Internet is not just a place to share jokes, but a way to do money as well.

Thought the days of fat cat bonuses were over? Think again.

Only a year or two ago, we were tolling the knell for Britain’s building societies.

There isn’t a UK adult who hasn’t contributed to the bank bailout in some way. But now there looks fair chance of recovering some of that money – maybe even making some profit. So how should that be shared out? Is it time for you & me to get a little banker’s bonus of our own? And how about bank staff themselves?