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Virgin Money Holdings

  • Virgin Money has customer boom as higher interest rates benefit Branson’s bank

    Virgin Money

    Virgin Money’s customer base continued to grow in the first quarter of its financial year as the challenger bank said it expects to benefit from higher interest rates for the remainder of the year. There were around 27,000 new personal current accounts opened in the period, 44 per cent more than last year. This, the [...]

  • Virgin Money shares soar after handing staff 10 per cent pay rise

    london-listed

    Virgin Money shares have jumped today after the company handed out 10 per cent pay rises to most of its 7,500 staff. The pay bump comes on top of a £1,000 one-off payment in August to help combat the cost of living crisis. Staff will receive around nine and 11 per cent extra across two [...]

  • London Marathon: Yehualaw and Kipruto win in the capital

    run, forrest, run

    Both the men’s and women’s London Marathon races were won by maiden victors today as Kenya’s Amos Kipruto and Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw claimed inaugural titles on the Mall this afternoon. In one of the biggest marathons on the circuit – which has seen 42,000 mass participants – the African duo managed to break away in [...]

  • Is running the new golf? Why TCS has become title sponsor of the London Marathon

    September 27, 2022

    For four decades the London Marathon has had a consumer-facing brand as its title sponsor, from Gillette and Mars in the 1980s to the more recent Flora and Virgin Money. But that will change on Sunday, the first race of its rebranding as the TCS London Marathon as part of a six-year contract with the [...]

  • Ed Warner: Marathon season revives questions about unequal fight against doping

    September 22, 2022

    The track season is behind us and athletic thoughts now turn to autumn marathons. Berlin, renowned world record course, this Sunday. London and then Chicago within a fortnight. New York at the start of November.  That’s four of the six marathon majors in seven weekends, and doubtless plenty of competition among race organisers to secure [...]

  • Rising fintech star explains why banks are rushing to jump on the lucrative BNPL bandwagon

    September 19, 2022

    Virgin Money recently confirmed plans to enter Britain’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) market. The banking player is the latest player to start offering BNPL products, which generally can help people to spread the cost of purchases without adding to their overall cost. Earlier this year, another bank, NatWest, said that it planned to enter [...]

  • Canary Wharf’s giants stand by idly as Brits flock en masse to challenger banks Monzo and Starling Bank

    August 20, 2022

    In yet another sign that traditional High Street banks are losing ground across the UK, challenger banks have overtaken the established Canary Wharf institutions in a survey ranking how satisfied people and firms are with their services amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis. Starling Bank and Monzo were the top-ranked current account providers, while high-street lenders [...]

  • Virgin Money reports jump in accounts as lender braces for cost of living crunch

    August 2, 2022

    Virgin Money boss David Duffy said the lender was braced to support customers through a cost of living crunch today as the high street lender reported a jump in digital personal and business accounts in the third quarter of the year.

  • Virgin Money to give out £1,000 bonuses to help staff deal with cost-of-living crunch

    July 19, 2022

    Virgin Money today told staff it will be giving out £1,000 bonuses to all workers on salaries of less than £50,000 a year to help them deal with the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. In an internal memo seen by City A.M., Virgin Money chief executive David Duffy told staff earning less than £50,000 that they will [...]

  • BBC wins the race for London Marathon broadcast rights for another five years

    June 20, 2022

    The BBC will broadcast the London Marathon for a further five years after extending its long-standing rights agreement with the race’s organisers. The new deal begins with this year’s edition of the 26-mile race, which is due to take place on 2 October, and runs until 2026, marking 45 years of live coverage on the [...]

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