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The bank, with its head office in 2 Triton Square, Regent's Place, London, NW1 3AN, United Kingdom, was established on 11 January 2010, when Abbey National plc was combined with the savings business and branches of Bradford & Bingley plc, and renamed Santander UK plc.
Banco Santander S.A. doing business as Santander Group (UK: / ˌ s æ n t ən ˈ d ɛər,-t æ n-/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌ s ɑː n t ɑː n ˈ d ɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR, Spanish: [ˈbaŋko santanˈdeɾ]), is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Santander in Spain.
UK banking brands owned by foreign banks. Allied Irish Bank (GB) and First Trust Bank, owned by AIB Group of the Republic of Ireland. Al Rayan Bank, owned by Masraf Al Rayan of Qatar. Axis Bank UK, owned by Axis Bank of India. Bank of Ceylon (UK), owned by Bank of Ceylon of Sri Lanka.
The UK lender reported a 13% rise in annual pre-tax profits to £2.1bn for 2023, up from £1.9bn in 2022.
Faster Payments. The Faster Payments Service ( FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-established BACS system. CHAPS, which was introduced in 1984, provides a limited faster ...
Over the past 40 years (to 2014) the banking system in the UK experienced a 'dramatic shift' with total assets increasing from 100% of GDP to 450%, and it is 'plausible that the UK banking system will continue to grow rapidly', owing to its probable 'comparative advantage' in international banking services, with the pre-eminence of London as a ...
Cahoot operates as a division of Santander UK, and shares Santander's banking licence and headquarters. Its business model involves a small operational staff, with IT services outsourced in 2003 to IBM using their "Software on Demand" model. As of 2023, the only products available to new customers are savings accounts.
Cater Allen Limited. Cater Allen is a private bank operating in the United Kingdom and is a subsidiary of Santander UK. Tracing its history back to a bank founded in Blackburn in 1816, [1] [2] it was independent for 180 years, before being purchased in 1997 by Abbey National. [3] Cater Allen Offshore was initially run as a separate enterprise ...