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www.abbey.com. The Abbey National Building Society was formed in 1944 by the merger of the Abbey Road and the National building societies. It was the first building society in the United Kingdom to demutualise, doing so in July 1989. The bank expanded through a number of acquisitions in the 1990s, including James Hay, Scottish Mutual, Scottish ...
Santander UK plc (UK: / ˌsæntənˈdɛər, - tæn -/, US: / ˌsɑːntɑːnˈdɛər /) [3] is a British bank, wholly owned by the Spanish Santander Group. Santander UK plc manages its affairs autonomously, with its own local management team, responsible solely for its performance. Santander UK is one of the leading personal financial services ...
Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and Others [2009] UKSC 6 is a judicial decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court relating to bank charges in the United Kingdom, with reference to the situation where a bank account holder goes into unplanned overdraft. When a bank customer uses an unplanned overdraft and then makes a payment ...
Banco Santander S.A. trading as Santander Group (UK: / ˌsæntənˈdɛər, - tæn -/ SAN-tən-DAIR, -tan-, US: / ˌsɑːntɑːnˈdɛər / SAHN-tahn-DAIR, [2][3] Spanish: [ˈbaŋko santanˈdeɾ]), is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Santander in Spain. Additionally, Santander maintains a presence in most ...
The Abbey National was the first society to demutualise in July 1989. In the 1980s, changes to British banking laws allowed building societies to offer banking services equivalent to normal banks. The management of a number of societies still felt that they were unable to compete with the banks, and a new Building Societies Act was passed in ...
Royal London Group. The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, along with its subsidiaries, is the largest mutual insurer in the United Kingdom, with Group funds under management of over £150 billion. [4] Group businesses provide around nine million policies and employ 4046 people, as of June 2019. [5]
James Hay was founded in 1979 and incorporated in 1990 before becoming part of Abbey National (now Santander UK) in 1994.In 2010, Santander sold James Hay to its current parent, the IFG Group PLC, for a reported £35m.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and is part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 58 ] The archaeological excavation of the site began under the supervision of John Richard Walbran , a Ripon antiquary who, in 1846, had published a paper On the ...