Banking giant Santander has agreed to buy TSB in a deal worth up to £2.9billion. If approved the deal would see Britain's second largest bank created.

Santander ’s services have gone down in a major outage. Customers reported being unable to get onto online banking, make transactions and other issues.

Santander is set to takeover TSB bank. Santander UK has acquired high street bank TSB in a landmark £2.9bn deal that will significantly beef up the lender’s market share.

Santander responded to say the letter they had received “doesn’t sound right”. They said: “If you haven't opened an account with us I would not interact with this.

Santander is set to cut opening times at 36 bank branches from the end of this month. The majority of these branches are currently open five days a week, from 9.30am to 3pm. Some of are also open ...