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Santander to take over High Street banking names

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:23:23 +0000

It has been revealed that a number of well known financial names will disappear from the High Streets in the UK from next year, when they are rebranded in the name of the Spanish financial institution that owns them. The names that will disappear from the High Street are Abbey, Bradford & Bingley, and Alliance & [...]

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Abbey launches packaged current accounts

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:57:08 +0000

Abbey has recently joined the long list of banks now offering customers the opportunity to sign up to a packaged current account, and officials from the bank are hoping that on top of the other achievements that Abbey has enjoyed this year, such as the acquisition of Bradford and Bingley and a larger share in [...]

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Frightened banks pull mortgage deals

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:49:09 +0000

Recent figures have shown that since the start of October hundreds of mortgage deals have been pulled off the shelves by lenders who are becoming increasingly nervous in the current difficult financial market. Over the past year thousands of mortgage products have been taken off the shelves as lenders have become more and more concerned [...]

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Another bank gets nationalised

admin — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:19:43 +0000

Earlier this year the financial headlines were filled with news about the government taking over the stricken bank Northern Rock. Over the past few days the government has used the same legislation that was used in the Northern Rock takeover to rush through the nationalisation of another troubled bank, Bradford & Bingley. According to reports [...]

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Another bank gets nationalised

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:57:20 +0000

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FSA investigating banks’ stability

admin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:32:08 +0000

Following the recent turmoil in the financial markets, which has spread from the sub-prime sector in the United States, the Financial Services Authority is to launch an investigation to review the stability of mortgage lenders. This comes in the light of the problems suffered by the Northern Rock bank, which is the UK’s fifth larges [...]

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