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Danske Bank Helps Wilsons Auctions Hammer Home Its Advantage T
here are many examples from the world of business which prove that often you only need to make a small change to have a big impact. On the surface, Danske Bank’s creation of a digital solution that lets business customers view all of their accounts and payments across multiple banks in one place, might seem like a welcome but relatively small addition to its online banking offering.
Through its business banking platform ‘District’, businesses can now get a full overview of their finances and gain a single point of entry to their accounts and transactions, including those with other banks, without needing to switch between different banking platforms. But for the more than 60 local businesses in Northern Ireland who are now using the account aggregation function, the seemingly small change is making a meaningful difference.
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One of those customers is Co Antrimbased Wilsons Auctions. The family-owned business has grown from a single auction site in Northern Ireland to the largest independent auction company in the UK and Ireland, with 19 sites across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and an annual ‘hammer total’ in excess of £400m. Wilsons Auctions has enjoyed a period of significant growth in the last six years, buying businesses in Newcastle,
