{
  "id": 7373729,
  "title": "UK banks kick off fundraising in bid to create new payments giant",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/14/uk-banks-kick-off-fundraising-in-bid-to-create-new-payments-giant",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-14T14:22:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sky News",
    "slug": "sky-news",
    "url": "https://news.sky.com/story/uk-banks-kick-off-fundraising-in-bid-to-create-new-payments-giant-13585850"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Britain’s biggest banks will this week embark on a process to raise tens of millions of pounds to fund the development of a new payments infrastructure vehicle that could ultimately evolve into a domestic alternative to Mastercard and Visa.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}