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• Leaving things to the last-minute costs people £449 a year or £29,200 over a lifetime
• 63% identify as procrastinators, leaving it late to buy gifts, plan holidays and save money
• Men procrastinate more costing them £571 a year, compared to just £325 for women
• One in three feel guilty about not exercising, 29% feel bad about not saving money

• 32% haven’t visited a butcher and 23% have never been to a greengrocer
• But kids prefer shops to online as they can explore, talk and feel grown up
• Three quarters of parents stick to supermarkets and four in ten shop online
• Kids want more places to play, more variety and mum and dad to take them

• Nationwide opening new Digital Innovation Centre in Holborn to house around 1000 people
• Announcement confirms Society’s commitment to service leadership across UK financial services
• Society will boost London workforce with around 750 new digital, data and technology roles
• News comes after the Society recently unveiled expansion plans in Swindon

From Wednesday 24th July, Nationwide Building Society is reducing selected 2, 3 and 5 year fixed rate mortgage products by up to 0.10%.

• Nationwide is offering extended maternity leave to employees when their baby is born before the 37th week of pregnancy
• The policy provides second parent 4-weeks hospital leave to support their partner and family
• Policy designed in consultation with Nationwide Group Staff Union (NGSU) and employees who’ve had children prematurely and is available now to all employees who need it

Nationwide Building Society is today withdrawing its three and five-year Fixed Rate ISAs, Fixed Rate Bonds and Fixed Rate e-Bonds from sale.

Nationwide Building Society’s Director of Payments, John Hutton, is to become the new Chairman of the global payments body, P20. John, who is currently Vice-Chairman, will take up his new role following the conclusion of P20’s annual Global Payment Conference, which takes place in London in October. He will succeed Bruce Lowthers, Global COO for FIS, as Chairman for a term of two years.

The results of the voting at Nationwide Building Society's Annual General Meeting (AGM) held today, Thursday 18 July 2019, at Manchester Central Convention Complex, Manchester, M2 3GX are detailed below.

• Members can freeze and unfreeze their bank card by phone instead of cancelling
• Most commonly lost items include glasses, keys, bank cards and gadgets
• Most likely places to lose items include our bags, back of the sofa and our pockets
• 53% of those in West Midlands lose bank cards vs just 38% of those in South West

Nationwide Building Society has joined forces with a charity to help raise £7 million needed to create a spectacular memorial for those who took part in the D-Day landings.

• Local charitable organisations have new opportunity to benefit from grants of up to £50,000 each
• Grants available to tackle housing issues in local communities
• Application process now open in six regions

Today, Nationwide has launched new rates for its children’s savings accounts