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Banking app feature allows economic abuse survivors to mute malicious messages

Starling Bank has launched a feature in its app allowing customers to hide payment references, which could help survivors of economic abuse. The “hide references” feature is designed to help people mute unwelcome or abusive references that can ...

06 Jun 2023 at 00:01

Personal Finance

Domestic abusers are weaponising joint mortgages, warns charity

Mortgages are being used as a “weapon” by domestic abusers against their current or former partners, plunging people into debt and homelessness, a charity is warning. Survivors are left with mountains of mortgage arrears, destroyed credit ...

11 Sept 2024 at 00:01

Personal Finance

Women being trapped in relationships due to economic abuse, charity finds

Nearly one in seven (15%) women say they have recently experienced economic abuse from a current or former partner, a charity has found. Of those women who had experienced economic abuse, nearly a quarter (23%) said that it had prevented ...

26 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Personal Finance

Charity and banks aim to stop abusive ex-partners using mortgages as ‘weapon’

A charity is teaming up with banks to help prevent people being pushed into homelessness by abusive partners or ex-partners using joint mortgages as a “weapon”. HSBC UK, First Direct and the domestic abuse charity Surviving Economic ...

31 Mar 2025 at 11:49

Personal Finance

One in seven women ‘have had their finances controlled in recent months’

Around one in seven (15%) women have had their money and economic resources controlled by another person in the previous 12 months, a survey indicates. Two-fifths (42%) did not speak to anyone, such as a family member or friend, ...

21 Jul 2025 at 00:01

Personal Finance

Potential contactless card changes could give abusers green light, charity fears

Concerns that higher contactless card limits could unwittingly “give a green light” to domestic abusers to drain victims’ bank accounts have been raised by a charity. The contactless card limit for a single payment currently ...

11 Sept 2025 at 17:19

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