UK Banking - Watch list

Barclays Bank announce a great first quarter of 2009
Barclays Bank revival seems to be gathering full speed with the news that the bank have made a considerable rise in profits for the first quarter of 2009, a quarter

For RBOS the goose that laid the golden eggs has left the building
Chancellor Alistair Darling announced over the weekend that banks that failed as badly as RBOS failure should be disallowed from awarding large bonuses,

Sean Connery backs bank merger challenge
Actor Sean Connery is backing a legal challenge to the Lloyds TSB and HBoS bank merger. 

History of the First Direct Bank
A division of the HSBC group, the First Direct banking Group is one of the first telephones and internet based UK based commercial banks...

History of the One Account
Established as a financial services company offering offset as well as flexible mortgage facilities for UK residents only, the One account is generally regarded as the company largely responsible for pioneering the this type of forward thinking mortgage facility in the UK...

HSBC - Safe as houses?
HSBC, or the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking corporation was founded after the Opium War with China which Britain won...

History of the HSBC Group
The history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Group (HSBC) is one that is as rich and varied as it is unique...

History of a Child’s Trust Fund
The results of research held by the Adult Financial Literacy Advisory Group (AdFlag) in 2001 discovered that three million people in the UK at that time were neither holders of a bank or building society account...

History of the Santander National Building Society
One of the UK’s longest established institutions, the Santander National now known as the Santander National plc has developed to become Britain's second largest building society...

History of Post Office Banking
As you would probably understand, when the UK Postal Service or the Post Office was established in 1635, it sole function was to carry dispatches on behalf of the King...

History of Capital One
There are banks that have been around for hundreds of years and banks that have been around for just a few decades...

History of Barclays Bank
Barclays Bank history is as old as the history of the Great British banking industry as a whole...

History of Banking
The history of banking, as far as it can be traced, began in ancient Egypt. On those days the principal form of exchange was in grain, held in massive warehouses...

History of the Alliance and Leicester Bank
As it may sound, the Alliance and Leicester Bank were born from an amalgamation of two building societies, the Alliance and the Leicester...

Nationalisation Of Bradford & Bingley Big Trouble On Monday?
Bradford and Bingley, for so long, the mortgage broker’s darling...

What Is Going On With Northern Rock?
Northern Rock has increased mortgage rates and pulled many savings accounts in an attempt by the government to shift borrowers and savers onto other institutions...

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