We sent £2,297 to the wrong account after mistakenly typing 87 in the sort code when it was supposed to be 89. It had been intended for the Deposit Protection Scheme, but ended up in another account.

Do you recognise this combination or layout of numbers? 60-20-08, 23-40-17, 50-33-12? Odds are that you don’t, but actually you use one or more of them on a near-daily basis. They are bank sort codes, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. My financial adviser put the wrong bank sort code on forms for my investment company, resulting in £2,000 in ...

A pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance. Peter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly ...

Barclays current account customers won't be able to access telephone, online and mobile banking this weekend as the high-street bank embarks on a huge process of changing hundreds of thousands of sort ...

One million UK banking customers are to receive new six-digit sort codes as part of new financial safety changes, the Bank of England has said. A number of banks - including Barclays and HSBC - have ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The implementation of the ring-fence, in which retail banking ...

Almost one million banking customers are being contacted to have their sort codes and account numbers changed asthe UK's biggest banks begin the process of 'ring-fencing' their accounts. The process ...