That's very good news and The Central Bank of India (rbi) has also started accepting it. I think all the banks are planning to take a large amount of tax from all the Bitcoiner and other cryptocurrency users. Although the article did search everything still I doubt that some UK banks do accept Bitcoin payments or not. Because some days ago all the banks are trying to ban Bitcoin but all of a sudden most banks started accepting cryptocurrencies I don't know what they are after but and sure they are planning something. But at least now people will have some faith in us and they will join the Bitcoin community and will ride the roller coaster with us.
I was thinking the same way, I think banks top management did this so that the price of BTC will go down, and now they are starting to accept it because I think they also want to participate in it, They just wanted to buy from the deep in order for them to profit.