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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Shaw

BIZARRE: Nationwide gives abuse survivors ability to hide harmful payment messages in app - You Need To See This

Charity Surviving Economic Abuse estimates that around 5.5 million women across the UK have experienced economic abuse (Mike Egerton/PA) - (PA Archive)

Nationwide Building Society is enabling customers to block harmful payment references as part of efforts to help protect abuse survivors.

Some perpetrators may include references as a way of maintaining unwanted contact and control when sending payments.

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